The reason why the characters in Pride and
Prejudice do not openly display passion may have everything to do with the
author's purpose in writing the novella, and the formula that she chose to bring out
specific themes.
Pride and Prejudice
is not necessarily a love story, but a comedy of manners in the subtle formula of the
Horatian satire. This means that the purpose of writing it is to expose the weaknesses
in people that are often thought of way too highly,for example, the aristocrats and the
upper classes.
This genre also aims to expose the qualities
that may make the audience question themselves as to why they think so highly of the
upper classes in the first place.
Therefore, Austen's focus
was to satirize a stratus of society and not to involve the audience into a complex,
sentimental tale.
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