The communal opinion of Mr Bingley is highly favourable, whereas Mr Darcy gets the thumbs down. Manners are so important that they seem almost more important than the wealth of this single young man.Īt the beginning of the novel Darcy arrives in Meryton with Bingley, who has rented Netherfield, and they both attend a local public ball. Darcy is, of course, of the gentleman class, but when the community of mainly females first meet him they do not rate him highly as a gentleman, in spite of his ten thousand pounds a year and the rapidly circulating reports of his magnificent stately mansion, Pemberton: he does not behave in the way they expect a gentleman to behave.
Jane Austen’s best realized male character, he displays all the worst, and the best, qualities of gentlemen at the upper end of the landed gentry class.īeing a gentleman at the time in which Pride and Prejudice is set – the last decade of the 18th century – has a specific meaning. Mr Darcy (Fitzwilliam Darcy) is one of English fiction’s top romantic heroes. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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