A Party With Pride and Prejudice

Mrs. Bennet has a clear objective, marrying one of her daughters with Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bingley is as "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners" (pg 9). According to all the girls present in the ball he was very handsome and most pleasing to everyone. Most certainly a very big competition for the liking of Mr. Bingley grew at the ball. If this situation happened in a modern day party, it would be very different. All the girls in Pride and Prejudice waited for Mr. Bingley to ask them for a dance. Today, all the girls would be dancing around Mr. Bingley without him even asking them to dance with him, trying to impress him before any other competitor does. With time the way a woman is attracts a man has changed. In Pride and Prejudice a kind and beautiful women had to wait for her turn to be taken out by Mr. Bingley, and she would be considered normal. If she had acted like a woman acts today, she would be looked at as different by not waiting for the man to engage her, but approaching the man. On the other hand, if a woman acted as women acted in Pride and Prejudice today, she would be considered strange. If a girl stays seated, waiting for a man to talk to her, and not interacting in any way with others she would be considered weird and anti social, instead of likeable as in the party of the book.