The need to reconsider first impressions runs throughout Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Both Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy judge each other harshly based on first impressions, while Elizabeth also forms judgments about Mr. Wickham and Miss Darcy. Throughout the novel, as Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy see each other and others in a new light, more accurate opinions based on fact and understanding replace their earlier opinions based on impressions, rumors, and prejudice. As they allow their ideas to evolve over the course of the novel, they open themselves to the possibility and reality of love. The relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy is analyzed in the essay starting from their first mutual impressions. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayMr. Darcy's initial contempt for Elizabeth is evident when he forms an immediate impression of Elizabeth the first time he sees her at a ball. He says: “It is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me” (Austen 7). Mr. Bingley suggests that Darcy take Elizabeth as a dancing partner, but Darcy refuses because she lacks beauty. He also says he doesn't want to stoop so low as to dance with a girl that all the other men at the ball reject. After that, he persists in criticizing her and does not allow himself to consider her cute. However, his attitude towards her changes quite quickly. In the sixth chapter, he discovers that instead of looking for flaws in her, he likes her ways and notices her expressive eyes, her intelligence, and her beautiful figure. To his own surprise, he "longs to know more about her." This is how evolution begins. Elizabeth also begins with a negative first impression of Mr. Darcy, but it takes her a little longer to change her mind. She judges Mr. Darcy to be too proud not long after she arrives at the ball, but when she hears his reasons for not asking her to dance, she "is left without very warm feelings towards him." After the dance, Mrs. Bennet comments on Darcy's pride and rudeness, to which Elizabeth replies that she "can safely promise... never to dance with him", clearly demonstrating her initial contempt. Even after Mr. Darcy begins to warm up to Elizabeth, she tells Mr. Wickham that she finds Darcy "very unpleasant." After hearing Mr. Wickham's sad story, in which Mr. Darcy is the villain, he further judges Mr. Darcy's character as despicable. When Mr. Darcy visits the Collins mansion during Elizabeth's stay in Charlotte's new home, Charlotte observes that without Elizabeth's presence, “Mr. Darcy would never have come to see me so soon." This observation attests to Darcy's growing affection for Elizabeth. Later, Elizabeth frequents Rosings, Lady Catherine's home, with Charlotte and Mr. Collins. Mr. Darcy visits Rosings around the same time and engages in a very civil, sometimes even playful, conversation with Elizabeth about the misfortunes of prejudice. He reveals that he regrets having made such a hasty judgment on Elizabeth. His feelings of affection for Elizabeth continue to grow until he can no longer repress them, and he invites her to Charlotte's house to tell her, "How ardently I admire and love you" and to ask for her hand in marriage (129). Unfortunately, although he has grown to love her, he still sees her as beneath him due to her financial and social situation. He makes no effort to hide his feelings of superiority from Elizabeth, causing her to reject him. During her frequent meetings with Mr. Darcy at Rosings, Elizabeth begins to see a more civilized side to him, and during her playful conversation withhe admits that he regrets his hasty judgment towards him. However, she still doesn't see him as a good man due to her misconceptions about how he treats Wickham. Darcy's arrogant marriage proposal infuriates her. She tells him that she cannot express gratitude for the offer because she says, "I never desired your good opinion, and you certainly granted it to me unwillingly" (129). She recognizes that he still sees her as inferior to him and that he sees this prejudice simply as something to be addressed rather than expelled. After Elizabeth's rejection, Darcy writes her a letter assuring her that he will not renew her marriage. proposal, but writes to change his misconceptions about the situation with Wickham, because Wickham told Elizabeth that Mr. Darcy cheated Wickham out of the money left by Mr. Darcy's father. During Elizabeth's visit to Pemberley with her aunt and uncle Gardiner, they explore Darcy's beautiful estate. When Darcy arrives unexpectedly, Elizabeth is embarrassed, but he treats her with the most sincere kindness, care and concern. He realizes that although his aunt and uncle are not of a high social position, they have good manners and like them much more than he likes Elizabeth's mother, Mrs. Bennet. He invites all three to return to Pemberley and insists that Elizabeth meet his sister who he cares about dearly and to whom he has been a father figure, demonstrating how much he wants Elizabeth to be a part of his life. receives Darcy's letter, at first wants to ignore it, "protesting... that he would never look at it again." Then she remembers Wickham's behavior when he told her all of Mr. Darcy's misdeeds. She is struck for the first time by the realization that Wickham's words had been inappropriate and that he had "had no scruples in sinking Mr. Darcy's character." As much as he wants to believe the best about Wickham and the worst about Darcy, he can no longer deny that Wickham is clearly wrong and that Darcy is telling the truth. Meeting Wickham again, she sees "in the same kindness which had at first delighted her, such an affectation and sameness as to disgust and weary." Elizabeth now sees the error in her first impression of Wickham. Visiting Pemberley proves to be the real turning point for Elizabeth. A beautiful natural landscape surrounds Darcy's house. Its elegant decor demonstrates exquisite, but not ostentatious, taste. His housekeeper has nothing but wonderful things to say about him and confirms Darcy's version of Wickham's story. While Elizabeth is in her house, she thinks: "Of this place... I could have been the lover." Darcy's unexpected arrival surprises and embarrasses Elizabeth, but he treats her kindly, which leaves her "astonished at the change in his ways since they were last parted." When she, her aunt, and her uncle have dinner with Darcy, she meets her sister and likes her very much, regardless of her preconception of Miss Darcy's excessive pride. When Elizabeth discovers that her sister, Lydia, has run off with Wickham, Darcy immediately decides to try to find them, and when he finds them, uses his own financial means to arrange a marriage between them. He keeps it a secret, but Lydia lets it slip to Elizabeth. When Bingley returns to visit Jane, he brings Darcy with him, giving Darcy and Elizabeth plenty of time alone together. During a walk, Darcy proposes marriage again, but this time he has evolved into a person who can do so without any prejudice against Elizabeth's social and financial position. Hearing Mr. Darcy's concern and generosity over his sister's scandal cements her new view of him as a very good man. When he visits her again with Bingley and proposes to her, now free from his parents. 1-16.