Pride And Prejudice

Explain the circumstances leading up to this declaration by Elizabeth: “Vanity, not love, has been my folly… ‘Till this moment I never knew myself.”
Pride and Prejudice, a classic of the English literature starring by a young low class lady named Elizabeth Bennet and a High class young man named Fitzwilliam Darcy. Both mainly characterized by pride and prejudice. The first time that Darcy wasseen was in the ball at Hertfordshire, all the eyes were fixed on him because he was elegant, handsome, and well educated but through the ball people actually started hating him because he was reserved, not that friendly and didn’t ask any girl to dance. People, including Elizabeth, started criticizing him, saying how impolite he was for the fact that he did not socialized with anyone. Just righthere we can notice how proud and prejudiced they are. Darcy thinks that there’s not a single lady in the whole ball good enough for him, which is excessively proud and prejudiced. On the other hand Elizabeth demonstrates how prejudice takes over her by condemning Darcy along with the rest.
Later on, Elizabeth meets a man named Mr. Wickham who she thought was completely the opposite from Mr. Darcy.She thought of him amiable, friendly, of good appearance, easy going, etc. but what she didn’t know when she met him was that he and Mr. Darcy knew each other and had ended up in bad terms. Of course, Wickham afterwards told her from where he knew Mr. Darcy and why they weren’t friends. Wickham told Elizabeth that late Mr. Darcy was like a dad to him, that he was in charge of his education andthat he would give him the same privileges he gave to Darcy, and that when late Mr. Darcy died, he specifically stipulated in his will that Darcy should give him a living and be paid an income for it. Mr. Darcy chose not to give him the living, depriving him of the income just because his father had preference for Wickham; in other words Wickham just spoke ill about Mr. Darcy. This and the opinionthat she already had about Darcy which was highly influenced by what the rest of the people in Hertfordshire thought about him, caused Elizabeth to think that Mr. Darcy was such a malicious and despicable person that she wished not to even look at him even though she felt highly attracted to him.
The love between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy was reciprocate but they both were struggling not to admit itbecause they were either too prejudiced or too proud but at the end Mr. Darcy couldn’t fight with what he felt; the love he felt for Elizabeth was more powerful than reasoning, it was even more powerful than his pride, than his criticism. Love was eating him up so he succumbed and told Elizabeth about the passion he felt for her and he proposed to her but, Elizabeth’s opinion was corrupted by whatWickham told her. It was also corrupted by the fact that Darcy was the one who separated Mr. Bingley and Jane, and that, she could not forgive.
She thought of Mr. Darcy a heartless monster and this is why her answer to him along with many reproaches about these subjects was a resounding “no”. Darcy was so surprised that he didn’t even know how to react towards that answer so he in greatcivility apologized with Elizabeth for making her waste her time and left.
The next day Mr. Darcy gave Elizabeth a letter in which he explained to her everything. He admitted that he was responsible of Mr. Bingley leaving to London but that he didn’t know that her sister Jane was highly interested in Bingley, that he had analyzed them both and that the only feeling he saw from Jane towards Mr. Bingleywas esteem and that he apologized if her sister had suffered because of that but that he was helping a friend. He said that Mr. Bingley had really felt in love with her sister but he as his friend could not aloud Mr. Bingley to make such a mistake not only due to the fact that they had no important connections or fortune, but to the fact that their family was not quite appropriate. Mary and...