Pride and Prejudice and Modern Romances

Even though Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was written in 1813, it has quite a few things in common with modern romances and soap operas. The best explanation for this is the fact that passionate love, hatred and intrigue have always been interesting subject matters for everyone with no reference to social class or family background. The surrounding the story happens to take place is very similar to the circumstances of any 21st century soap opera. …

…which succeeding events have bulit so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."(Volume II, Chapter 11) However, the outcome of the ambivalent love affair is usually a happy ending. After fights, struggles and humiliations, the young couple is able to win over all the obstacles, and live happily ever after.