Meant to be.

Coming away from this book, I realize I didn’t initially appreciate Austen’s writing style and the brilliance in the way she puts life to each and every one of the characters. I definitely enjoyed the book much more in the end than I had anticipated I would halfway into it. This classic love story gives us the emotionally satisfying ending that all of us desire. It powerfully addresses marriage, true love, and happiness and explores the idea of all these emotions coming together and overcoming the prejudices of class. This conveys that social structure is insignificant to love, but what I found very interesting is that although Austen dismisses prejudices among social ranking, it seems as if she accepts them and also believes they are inevitable. Austen also proves that one is only capable of loving when they have found a balance in pride. She also suggests that true love cannot be stopped if it is meant to be. No one and no societal pressure is capable of ruining Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth’s relationship. It withstands the worst of the worst; Mrs. Catherine’s sabotage attempt, Mrs. Bingley’s self-indulgence, Mrs. Bennet’s irrationality, and Wickham’s deceitfulness.