AN ANALYSIS OF ELIZABETH'S PREJUDICE TO MR. DARCY IN JANE

Novel is a written long story which contains a complex lesson about human life. The readers can get a better view of things that happen in human life and human’ mind from the novel. The readers can find the description of human personality, so many characters of people and human behavior can be found in it. The novel which was analyzed by the writer tells about having prejudice toward other. Therefore the writer was interested in focusing her study on An Analysis of Elizabeth’s Prejudice to Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Novel entitled “Pride and Prejudice”.\ud The objectives of this study were 1) to know Elizabeth’s prejudice to Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice”. 2) to find the reason of Elizabeth’s prejudice to Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice”. And 3) to analyze the effects of her prejudice toward herself.\ud The design of this study was descriptive research with the emphasis on the Elizabeth’s Prejudice to Mr. Darcy in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”. In collecting the data, the writer read and understood the novel, then chose the data dealing with the problems. After that, she selected the data which were related to the purposes of the study and rewrote all of the data which had been chosen and selected based on the original quotation in the novel.\ud The finding showed there were three negative prejudices that Elizabeth had to Mr. Darcy, namely Mr. Darcy was arrogant and cruel. He also saw someone from his or her economic status. Those negative prejudices had two reasons. The first reason is emotion because those prejudices derived from Elizabeth's dissatisfaction feeling and anger to Mr. Darcy's attitude. The second reason is social because its related to the different of social status between them. Then, prejudices belonged to Elizabeth toward Mr. Darcy brought two effects. Those were feeling embarrassed and feeling regret.\u