Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet is the 20-year-old second sister and the protagonist of the story. She is her father's favourite daughter who inherits his intelligence and wit. She is generally regarded as one of the most enduring and popular female protagonist in English literature.
An intelligent and sipirited young woman who possesses a keen wit and enjoys studying people's characters. Although she initially dislikes Darcy, circumstances cause her to change her mind and her first negative impression of him making her falling totally in love with Darcy.
Elizabeth is considered to be a beautiful and charming young woman, with "fine eyes" to which Mr. Darcy is first drawn. He is later attracted more particularly to her "light and pleasing" figure, the "easy playfulness" of her manners, her mind and personality, and eventually considers her "one of the handsomest women" in his acquaintance. She is Mr Bennet's favourite daughter, intelligent and lively, and her "quickness" of mind is made evident in her taste for witty and teasing conversation, where she likes to adopt striking and independent views.
Elizabeth`s conception of marriage in Pride and Prejudice is based on a love marriage, not an arranged marriage but a true and a pure marriage, refusing her cousin Mr Collins because she is not in love with him and she is not resigned herself to accept him only because that is the only way of not being alone. This is totally opposite to the thought of the society of the time in which women had only a way to survive, and that way was getting married with a man of fortune.
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