The course of true love never ran smoothly in “Pride and Prejudice”. The phrase “The course of true love never ran smoothly” implies that the path to love is never simple and straightforward. The path to true love is fraught with difficulties and obstacles linked to society, religion or culture. In “Pride and Prejudice,” no one exemplifies this idiom better than the couples Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth and Mr. Bingley and Jane. The idea behind the proverb plays a central role in constructing the plot of the story, as evidenced by the relationships, particularly those of Bingley and Jane, and Darcy and Elizabeth. Jane Austen tells a fairy tale about how a pretty young woman, who is virtually penniless, meets a handsome, wealthy gentleman, who is practically a prince, who falls in love with her. This is seen in the case of Mr. Bingley and Miss Jane Bennett. However, the couple faces many obstacles in their relationship. Indeed, Jane comes from a family of five daughters and, in Elizabethan England, property was passed to male heirs. With no male heirs in the family, the property fell to the nearest male relative, leaving Mr Bennett's daughters at a social disadvantage. This is the fate of daughters Elizabeth and Jane in their social engagements and relationships, as they must seek out established men to marry them if they are to have any position in society. A couple who describes the idiom "The course of true love never ran." smooth” are Darcy and Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship was broken from the start when pride and prejudice became involved. Mr. Darcy is a rich and proud man who snubs Elizabeth after their introduction at a ball. It is this first meeting with Mr. Darcy that prompts Elizabeth to create a...... middle of paper ...... in general, the phrase "the course of true love never ran without clashes” is evident in the relationships between Jane and Bingley and Elizabeth and Darcy. Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is largely interrupted by Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice. However, for Jane and Bingley, the relationship is interrupted by interference from family and friends over social and economic class. My thoughts on this quote “The course of true love never ran smooth” by William Shakespeare and how it is compared to Jane Austen's “Pride and Prejudice” is true because from the beginning of the novel, none of the sisters didn't know who they were going to marry, there was no original order on how the sisters were going to get married. There were a lot of love triangles and mixed signals between the sisters and the men trying to push them into marriage..