O gosto da modernidade e a construção da personagem Elizabeth Bennet no romance Orgulho e preconceito, de Jane Austen

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the character Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (2018), taking as an aesthetic condition the taste for modernity that the character carries throughout the narrative from the 18th and 19th centuries and seeing the construction of the character as a revolutionary act. The research was based on a survey of biographical data on the author, as well as theoretical readings on the theory of the novel, English romanticism, showing a time when society distinguishes and constructs certain social models, such as the need for marriage for women. The research methods were qualitative, descriptive and bibliographical. The theoretical references used were Cevasco & Siqueira (1985), Watt (2010), Zardini (2013) and Cardoso (2022), among others, which will provide the basis for the development of the proposed work. As a result of the research, Jane Austen's work stands out as important for literature and society, highlighting Austen's presence as a writer at a time when women were outside the conventional moulds of society at the time.