Darcy vs. Wickham

It’s very surprising how much I can apply the events in this book to my life. Let’s take Mr. Wickham into our consideration. He obviously has a serious problem with Darcy, and I am very sure he will soon have another problem with him.

You see, men are always aggressive against those men who show some type of threat to them and their current lifestyle. To show an example of such behavior you might imagine the reaction of a student who plays soccer, has many friends and also does well academically would have if someone just like him arrived new at school. Only two possible outcomes are possible. They become best friends or worst enemies. This is about the same relationship Darcy and Mr. Wickham have, although there is a missing part to this relationship we still don’t know.

Elizabeth will become, or this I think, a central piece to the battle between Darcy and Mr. Wickham. The complication here is that Darcy likes Elizabeth, but now that Elizabeth met Mr. Wickham she likes him, and Wickham’s preference isn’t very clear. The rivalry between both of these men will be put into challenge by one woman. She may end up with one of them, or with none.

Mr. Darcy

What?

Ok that’s a question that jumped out in my head as I read Pride and Prejudice, almost everything I read is senseless. What surprises me the most is Darcy’s arrogance and his incoherence. At the beginning of the book he is clearly not interested in Elizabeth, then the tables turn and he is absolutely interested in her. But in this chapter he shows us how incoherent someone can be. He still likes Elizabeth, but this time he likes her “more than he liked”. Ok, WHAT?

Yes I am puzzled, but who wouldn’t. I will now use all men as an example to show how out of sync I think Darcy is. If you like a woman you will obviously want to be with her, the more time you are with them the more time you have to talk to them. And let’s face it, when you talk to the you are really trying to show them why they should be interested in you. So in what moment does it become convenient not to be with that girl? There are two possible ways to see Darcy’s reaction. One, he is overconfident and thinks he already has Elizabeth tied up. Or second, he is scared of screwing up which doesn’t sound correct.

Acting As You Must

Mr. Bingely and Darcy are out to find their woman. Like in modern days, you might say that both of them are looking to find a wife, but are they doing this for them or because the society is pressuring them to do so?

You see, in society there has always been a push to things, sort of an idea that you must do something not because you want to but because the society is pushing you to do so. For example we can see how Jane Bennet’s mother wants her to get wet so Mr. Bingely will ask her over. But these actions by Mrs. Bennet are actually showing that she feels pressure from society to get her daughters married.

This usually happens to all of us, who because of this social obligations, are forced to do things we really don’t want to. For instance think about when you walk in a room. There are many people in it, and all of them expect a lot about you. After all, they expect that you follow the rules laid out by them, the rules we have grown into. And just as Mrs. Bennet, we feel pressure to complete the standards set by our society.

Social Situation

In the novel by Jane Austen Pride and Perjudice we find a very similar social activity to the one in our school.

To understand the statement I have just said I must explain what people in our school go threw, the social califications you must underpass. First of all, every morning as you walk onto the amphitheater in lunch time you must be aware that all eyes are on you, waiting for a screw-up, for a small mistake tha will cost you youre life, or arleast your reputation. At the end of the day its all about that, reputation, as though you had your own criminal record for which you will be judged.

Just as in this novel, Mr. Darcy is checking out every detail in the Bennet girls, deciding if they are enough for him. Also Jane and Elizabeth Bennet discus about Bingely and Darcy, talking of their apearance ant their objectives.

In both environments you must be very careful, the slightest mixup can cost you more than what you think. That’s why people in the novel, and for that matter in this school, are very selective to whom they tell things to. If you trust the wrong person its all over for you.

The End

Everything that happened, all the events before are leading up to this final act. My expectations to Act 5 couldn’t be greater, first of all there is a lot going on before this act, and second it’s been a long struggle for Hamlet, so I want to see if it was all worth the fight.

The final fight has arrived. Laertes and Hamlet are in an epic but formal fight, the one that will not only decide their fate, but the one of Denmark too. Hamlet is doing all of this to finally obtain peace within himself, “Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting/ That would not let me sleep. Me thought I lay/ Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.” (Act 5, Sc ii, 4-6) for he wants to avenge his fathers death, and show to the world all the bad things his uncle has done.

It’s only at the end of the fight that Laertes confesses the plot against Hamlet that “The King, the king is to blame” (351). Right after this is said, Hamlets rage explodes towards his uncle Claudius. He killed his father, and has now poisoned his mother when wanting to kill him, no wonder he is now against him.

It’s reasonable to believe the end to Hamlet isn’t fair, and I actually think it isn’t. But this is an obvious assumption starting from the fact that this is a tragedy, meaning it will not end well. But the end made me think more, maybe Hamlet wanted to seek revenge, and he finds this, then dies, but at least he did what he wanted the most. So it might not be a complete failure that Hamlet died, for he at least did what he wanted to do.