Criticizing Criticism

Criticism constantly appears in the book, making it important. Sitting in a house and criticizing persons for a whole afternoon looks like the past time. The criticizing is mostly done by the women who criticize every aspect of the other person. Man also criticize and in some way are very negative. According to Mr. Darcy: "There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome" (pg 43). I see Mr. Darcy as a very pessimist man finding a defect in every person in the world. I do agree that everyone has their own defects but I do not agree that every defect has to be criticized. Every defect found in a person shouldn't affect so much as to say that there is some evil inside every person, subject to criticism. The idea of the defect is the weak spot of the person, which people will criticize.

Austen also agrees with the idea that there is a defect for every person in the world. All her characters have at least one defect. According to Austen: "Miss de Borough is far superior to the handsomest of her sex, because there is that in her features which marks the young woman of distinguished birth. She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution" (pg 50). Even though Miss de Borough prevails in beauty over the rest, her sickness prevents her from accomplishing more. I don't really agree with Austen that for every human there has to be a defect, in fact I think that the biggest defect of all is criticizing the defects of others.