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In by Jane Austen the entire novel is designed around a running theme: . The passage in the novel that best relates this theme is in chapter thirty-four when Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth. This chapter is significant because it is one of the few times where the ....

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.... never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly… Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Austen, 142-145). Unfortunately for Darcy, Elizabeth only gets slightly insulted. Her refusal of Darcy was initially because of his treatment of Wickham and his actions toward Jane and Bingley's relationship. Elizabeth's prejudice shows in her actions towards Darcy too. She says, " From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners imp ....