Jane Austen grew up in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when British culture was surrounded by a set of domestic concerns about money, status and the property. Therefore, people mainly focused on their own family's wealth. Austen uses satirical references to marriage to show that it was normal for girls to be censored about what they generally wanted in a marriage because they became the income of their family's wealth. As a result, personal desires and flaws are tied to societal expectations. This is why people started to be proud, or to think highly of themselves, and to be prejudiced, or to judge people before knowing them. They are proud of their own social class, marriage and wealth, and are prejudiced against those who do not belong to the same social class. In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the themes of pride and prejudice are strongly illustrated through the characters' flaws. However, one character manages to overcome the judgments and opinions he forms and progress into a more mature individual. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Lydia Bennet exhibit excessive behavior. the pride that blinds their judgments and decisions and enormously influences their actions. Darcy, a proud landowner, doesn't see why he should bother with people who aren't as educated, wealthy, or sophisticated as he is. So when Charles Bingley suggests that Darcy dance with Elizabeth Bennet, Darcy says, “She is tolerable; but not beautiful enough to tempt me; and I am in no mood to give consequences to young women who are scorned by other men” (Austen 7). Darcy makes it clear that he is proud of his reputation and social class. Therefore, Darcy doesn't think Elizabeth is good enough for him to dance with or even in the middle of a paper... or compared to mine" (57) Darcy recognizes that his pride led him to judge people based on theirs. class and assume that's what everyone else did. He now understands that a person's conduct is much more important than their class. After Darcy's progression, he achieves a self-knowledge that allows him to know that self-pride is healthy in itself. the appropriate time and place. In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, two characters are driven toward themes of personal pride and prejudice due to their own self-admiration. The founding of England in the late 18th and 19th centuries affected the figures of that era. making them believe that the purpose of marriage was to maintain their family class in order to be economically stable. Causing them to become prideful and prejudiced based on a set of domestic concerns regarding money, status and property..