First Impressions Can Change It All

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Fifteen seconds go by and you have already made a first impression of a person. The first impressions you get of a person might not always be who they turn out to be. It is about giving people a chance as shown in Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is a book first titled First Impressions. Pride and Prejudice is a book where the characters make the plot and the novel itself. It is based upon the first impressions one character makes of another and the story revolves around this. First Impressions embody the themes in the novel. Mr. Darcy is one major character in which people make many first impressions of him and try to form him into the character they think he is. One person that makes such an impression of him is Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth’s judgments are correct most of the time with some characters but when it comes to Mr. Darcy it soon shows that her impressions of him are incorrect. Elizabeth also lets those words Mr. Wickham says of Darcy steer her impressions in that incorrect way. When Elizabeth finds out that what others tell her is not true her impressions are contradicted. The first impressions of Darcy and Elizabeth affect the plot and structure of Pride and Prejudice by their influences on other characters.

In the novel Pride and Prejudice the characters’ conflict with one another, affecting their relationships, is a very important point how first impressions affect people and how they let them control it all. That is the one thing affecting these characters and causing conflict. This is a conflict with what they believe from the impressions and what they should really believe in their heart and mind.

The positive influences of Mr. Darcy show good first impressions at first. Darcy is a very...

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...erned also with the transmission of wealth, is trying to judge itself at once by an inherited code and by the morality of improvement,” (Cordero). Cordero is saying that a good relationship is based upon your wealth or you could say social status. If your social status or wealth is lower than that of someone you communicate with, you are looked at as a betrayer. You would be letting your family and friends down, and that is what Darcy is trying to avoid, at the beginning, along with other characters that are socially better than other characters they might find interest in. You can not be a person who puts yourself above everyone else and walks around like you are the best because in the end it will catch up to you. People see that Darcy might think the things he does and the things he has are the best but truthfully they aren’t really the best things.

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