Pride And Prejudice Characters

Elizabeth Bennet’s Depiction Elizabeth Bennet is one of the most iconic and well-loved characters in all of literature. She is the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and the central figure of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is a sharp-witted, independent young woman who often…

Few characters stand out in world literature as much as Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennett. She is at once the protagonist of the novel and a sort of alter ego for its author Jane Austen. In a world and period when women were treated as inferior to men—indeed by some…