The Academy Award winning 1940’s adaptation of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, tells the story of the five Bennett girls’ struggle to find love in the Victorian suburb of London. Robert L. Leonard, the director of the film, uses many different techniques to excentuate the different socio-economic classes of the characters as well as respecting the time period in which the novel was originally written. The different classes in which each of the characters …showed first 75 words of 443 total…

…showed last 75 words of 443 total…is necessary in order to coincide with the theme of the film, which also shares its title, Pride and Prejudice. Despite the fact that most of the plot twits in the novel are quite typical and expected (i.e Mr. Darcy’s proposal and the happy ending), it does not take away from the universal theme of the novel, which is that one’s pride can lead to the prejudice of great things in life.