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How it all starts,
The movie Pride and Prejudice was first written in the early 19th century, in England, by Jane Austen. A woman who lacks fortune is in need of a wealthy man. So, basically any guy from a family with a good income would be the marriage hunt. Someone who is Rich but unintelligent, unattractive, boring men? Mrs. Bennet says, "Bring it on!” She has five daughters with no fortune. Only one day when a young wealthy man named Mr. Bingley moves into the neighborhood, and is interested in her eldest daughter Jane. She becomes extremely happy; that the only thing she would do is to try to push them together in every way possible. Its not all what you call roses and champagne. Mr. Bingley is a very pleasant and easygoing man, while his sisters are very snobby who is mostly like Mr. Darcy. Rich, and good-looking, close friends with Mr. Bingley, as well as, that he is very proud of himself. While on the other hand, the bents are not up to the social structure of theirs. So Mr. Darcy is proportionally disagreeable to Jane’s younger sister Elizabeth. When Mr. Bingley suggests to Mr. Darcy to dance with Elizabeth, he replies that she is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me, which basically means she is not pretty. By accident while the two men carry on talking, Elizabeth over hears them. Ouch. Its all clear to everyone that Mr. Bingley is falling in love with Jane, as well as she is, but she does not really show her feelings. However. Later on, Elizabeth gossips to her friend charlotte Lucas about the situation, but then her friend argues with her that Jane needs to show her feelings more and that she should show more affection, or she could risk loosing Mr. Bingley. Meanwhile, when Mr. Darcy is fin is finished from criticizing Elizabeth, he starts to become more attracted to her. You could say its something about her " fine eyes". Any who, Mr. Bingley's sisters invite Jane to a dinner. When Jane’s mother insist on her going horseback riding while it was raining rather than taking a carriage, in order to get ill, and to stay longer in Mr. Bingley’s household. Elizabeth then arrives to Netherfield to nurse her sister. While, she engages in some witty way with Mr. Darcy. Impressed by his attraction, he keeps staring at her, but she assumes that he is being a jerk and that he is judging her in some sort of way. When they arrive back to Longbourne (the Bennet’s home), Mr. Collins their closest male relative arrives for a visit, and he would be the one who will inherit all the properties of Mr. Bennet after his death. So, Mr. Bennet thought that the best thing to do is to marry one of the girls in order to keep their home. It seems like he has his eyes on Elizabeth, but did we mention that he is a very foolish man that worships his boss Lady Katherine? Its clear that Elizabeth finds him revolting. As for the two younger sisters, they're ready to throw themselves at any of the officers who wanders their way, since the militia has arrived in town. Soon, they meet a young charming man named Mr. wick ham, who becomes friends with Elizabeth rapidly. Then, he tells Elizabeth a story about how his life opportunities where mostly destroyed by Mr. Darcy and he tries to convince her that Darcy is evil and bad. Elizabeth believes him straight away, and she also gets to know that lady Katherine is Mr. Darcy’s aunt. On the next day, all the Bennet’s girls are invited to the annual ball in Netherfield, which is Bingley's mansion. Elizabeth is excited about dancing with wick ham and was also excited to see Mr. Darcy while she is with wick ham. At the ball, wick ham does not appear to be there, but Darcy then asks Elizabeth to dance. So does Mr. Collins, whose dancing is very embarrassing to Liz. On to the following morning, Mr. Collin proposes to Elizabeth, and she rejects him. So, for payback he proposed to her friend charlotte and she accepted his hands in marriage since she is old in age and that she's a spinster with no prospects, and that she would rather have her own house than living with her parents forever. Jane receives a letter. It’s from Mr. Bingley, and it’s informing her that the entire Bingley group has left for London. And miss bingley also sneakily writes down that Mr. bingley is in love with Darcy’s sister. Jane is heartbroken, but then, she leaves to London with her aunt and uncle, hoping to get him back. Elizabeth also leaves to visit her married friend charlotte. Charlotte seems satisfied during the visit, and they receive a dinner invitation from lady Katherine in Rosins Park her house. During the dinner, lady Katherine subjects Lizzy to the third degree, but Elizabeth handles it well enough. And also learns that a visit from Darcy is impendent when Darcy arrives, him and Elizabeth start speaking in a more witty manner during dinner at Rosings. He cones to visit very frequently, but everyone is still confused, because he always seems to be not having fun, and he doesn't speak to anyone there, and he only stays for less than ten minutes. Elizabeth then figures out that bingley was going to purpose to Jane but Darcy intervened and told him not to. And so, her dislike towards Darcy grows even more. In that moment exactly, Darcy chooses to purpose to her. During the proposal, his I love you comments and I am superior to you, don't really go well. Elizabeth rejects his hands in marriage, by saying that he is not a real gentleman. She uses to primary reasons of anger on to that, which are: Jane’s broken heart, and Wickham’s story. The next day, Darcy then hands Elizabeth a letter, and asks her to read it. It contains a whole story about Wickham on what a liar and gambler he is. And about the story regarding Jane, he thought that Jane didn't love bingley, and he thought that he would save him from a woman who is attracted to his wealth. Elizabeth then goes through an emotional transformation and regrets everything she thought of Darcy. Once she was back at home, Lydia, the youngest, is then invited with the officers to their next station in Brighton. Elizabeth disapproves strongly of the plan, but then Mr. Bennet allows Lydia to go off. However, Elizabeth’s aunt and uncle ask her to join them on a trip to Derbyshire, which is incidentally, where Mr. Darcy lives. They then decide to visit his house, which is called Pemberely. Elizabeth agrees to visit only if Darcy is out of town. Once they are there, she is impressed by its excellent taste. During that, they run into Darcy surprisingly, and to the further surprise, he's really polite to her aunt and uncle. Darcy asks Elizabeth then to meet his sister, who seems to be very nice and very shy at the same time. Before the wedding, a disaster strikes when Elizabeth gets to know that Lydia has run off with Wickham. This scandal could ruin the family, so Elizabeth’s uncle and father try to track the couple down. Elizabeth’s uncle saves the day then and brings the two back as properly married. When Lydia, slips out a word that Darcy was at her wedding, Elizabeth realizes that there’s more to the story and writes to her aunt for more information. When her aunt replies, Elizabeth gets to know the full truth, which was that Darcy was responsible for saving there families honor by paying of Wickham’s massive debts. When Darcy arrives with bingley for a visit back in longhorn, Elizabeth tries to talk to him but doesn't get a chance. It seems that Darcy has convinced bingley again about Jane. However, bingley proposes to Jane and she accepts. Shortly then, lady Katherine visits Longbourn and tries to stop Elizabeth from seeing or speaking to Darcy. Elizabeth gets mad and tells her to get lost. Later, Elizabeth and Darcy go for a walk and the couple says everything that needs to be said: " thanks for saving my sister from the ruin”, he replies back by saying: " I was doing it for you", and asks her do you still hate me? And he says no I love you act. Finally then, they decided to get married.
THE END.

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