Darcy as Saviour and Supreme Personality along with his Patience towards Love and his Contrast with Elizabeth Whose Relations is Source of Different Loves and Justifies the Title of Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen was born in Hampshire in 1775. Her father was a clergyman and she was the final but one of a family of eight children. England was undergoing a swift change in Jane Austen's life span. The financial system was changing from farming to an industrial one and the refined world of the 18th century was giving way to a new one. Yet Jane Austen's novels hardly reflect all this. This was because she lived a protected life in southern England, which remained undeveloped. The England of her novels was motionless that of 18th century stylishness and easy living. Thus Jane Austen's world was a closed world in which a very small amount of the total population participated, and this is the earth her novels reflect. Rank distinctions were very inflexible and were divided thus: the land-owning nobility and the matured gentry; the new wealthy industrialists; the workers and the labourers. Pride and Prejudice is set wholly in the context of the higher classes (eg. The Bingleys, the Darcys, Lady Catherine de Bourgh). The Bingley sisters look down upon the Bennets, because they are not as wealthy as they are, while they have huge respect for Mr. Darcy because of his income of ten thousand pounds for each annum. The occupations of this group were largely communal: dinner parties, balls, and a daily encircling of trivialities - visits to friends, a few family tasks which were considered well enough for them, etc.