Pride and Prejudice 11

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice portrays its characters in many different lights. There is a wide range of backgrounds and personalities of the people within the novel and also a wide range of character development. The use of flat characters in Pride and Prejudice is primarily to show consequences of having a flat, undeveloped personality such as leading a dull and boring life, being miserable throughout marriage, not getting what is desired from life, …

…Prejudice. Flat characters portray images of characters leading dull and boring lives, being miserable in marriage, not getting what is desired from life, and being social outcasts. There is a parallel to modern life (20th century) with the use of flat characters in this 19th century novel. Modern society portrays flat characters as outcasts also and socially primitive. Who will ever decide if Jane Austen’s and modern societies views on flat characters are correct?