Inventing new ideas inhibits the brain of looking at the wonderful things already accounted for.

As I've been reading, I've already begun to see the differences in the cultures of today and Pride and Prejudice's past. It amazes me how much courting there was. I'm only a few chapters in, and I already love it, but my frustration level is already hitting high marks. Nobody stands up for themselves, or says anything back, and they can't be independant of themselves. And I realize that thos are some rights that have been fought for over the years, which is something I'm looking at during this senior study. My main focus was to show how romanticism has changed over the years, and independance is deffinatey a factor towards that main idea.

There are so many characters, but I suppose that having large families was the norm. The main family are the Bennetts. Mr B doesn't really have much to say and when he does, he is actually rather caddy and has some underlying wit, which I feel will be more useful later in the story, or he will have a chance to be serious at some point.
Mrs.B is interesting. She always critisizes her husband, and pushes her 5 daughters almost more than they can hande, although I'm assuming that the daughters have adjusted to this. She is quite the gossip and likes to brag about her daughters and their accomplishments, especially when the eldest, Jane, becomes the focal point of a new gentleman in town, Mr.Bingley. Mrs.B I feel is hiding a lot of her feelings just due to the time era, but I feel like she's an excellent study for traditions and the meaning of proper. She relies a lot on her husband, and it's almost annoying. She begged and begged Mr.B to make introductions/introduce himself and the family name to Mr.Bingley. I feel like her character will be tried to her limits later in the story, and I feel like she could have a reaction that is unexpected.
Mr.Bingley is an odd man. He's very nice, and very polite, but so much is expected from him and I feel like he's just trying to live up to someone else's expectations. Especially of his friend, Mr.Darcy, who causes quite an amount of drama. I feel like Mr.Bingley is representing the average joe, except the fact that he is unbearably rich. But he just wants to live his life and live happily ever after, but since so many people are putting titles on people and statuses, he can't live or act out his feelings, which is quite often in the beginning of any kind of relationship.
Jane, the eldest of the Bennetts, has caught the eye of Mr.Bingley, and there's quite a fuss about it. Everyone has some sort of opinion about it. So far in the reading, Jane has been the quiet, nice, appealing girl who everyone gets along with. Not much to say about her, but that I'm going to root for her and Bingley.
Elizabeth is the 2nd Bennett, and she is going to surprise me I think. She seems to have very many witty remarks that she usually keeps to herself, which is good in her society, but I also feel like she might let me down. But I shall read on and find out.
Mary is the middle Bennett, and she is very talented at the piano, but is very cocky about it. She is frowned upon for it which is remarkable because confident girls are needed in this world, and the one confident person in that era is shot down, and being forced to live under the same pressures of society. I feel like something may happen to open everyone's eyes and see what a treasure she really is.
Kitty is the 2nd youngest Bennett, and not much is said about her, except that she hangs out with the youngest Bennett, Lydia, almost all the time. They are very much interested in men, and engagements, and the whole idea of this time period's courting fantasies. This is going to be something I will keep my eye on because they're young and niave, and it makes me think about the essence of youth and how easily swayed we are because we don't know much of the world yet. And I wonder if girls are taught young to have some sort of appeal of independance or something of the sort if we could steadily change the world.
I know that's a bit to go off on, but society is gradually going to have to change because there are so many limits that the world expects people to cross when they cannot or do not want to cross. And I feel like romanticism is one of those limits. Everyone is being pushed up to a certain level to achieve those goals, or to look a certain way, or have certain material possessions, and romance and love get trampled over, and even mistaken under all the confusion of these delicate feelings and boundaries.
And speaking of boundaries, one more character that I feel will cross boundaries, and actually already has, is Mr.Darcy, who insulted Lizzy when she was clearly within earshot. He is rather dark, closed off, and distant. But I feel like he's going to be one egg to crack through the plot, and I feel like a lot of things will become undone with him. Things may or may not change.

So far, I absolutely love this book, and cannot wait to really sit down and analyze this book and it's meanings!

The First

I have a blog, and I find it ironic that I haven't had a chance to do my own blog, and now I feel like this will really allow me to HAVE to check my blogs, and I'll feel even more like a hipster than I'm already becoming. So, now lets hope I don't get the two mixed up :b I mean, not saying that I won't make fashion metaphor's and such, but I'm just warning you :b