The course of true love never ran smooth in “Pride and Prejudice” The expression “The course of true love never ran smooth” implies that the path towards love is never simple and direct. The path to true love is full of difficulties and obstacles coming from society, religion or culture. In "Pride and Prejudice," no one exemplifies this language more than the couples Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth and Mr. Bingley and Jane. The idea behind the proverb plays a central role in building the story's plot, as seen in the relationships, particularly those between Bingley and Jane, and Darcy and Elizabeth. Jane Austen tells a fairy tale about how an attractive young woman, who is virtually penniless, meets a handsome, rich gentleman, 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 the relationship. This is because Jane comes from a family of five daughters, and in Elizabethan England property passed to male heirs. With no male heirs in the family, the property went to the closest male relative, leaving Mr Bennett's daughters at a social disadvantage. This is the plight of daughters Elizabeth and Jane in their social commitments and relationships as they must seek established men to marry them if they are to have a position in society. A couple who describes the idiom “The course of true love never ran “smooth” are Darcy and Elizabeth. Both Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship breaks down from the start when pride and prejudice are 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 causes Elizabeth to create a... middle of paper... in general, the expression "the course of true love never ran smoothly" is evident in the relationships between Jane and Bingley , Elizabeth and Darcy. The relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy is largely disrupted by Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice. However, for Jane and Bingley, the relationship is disrupted by the interference of family and friends over social and economic class. My thoughts on this quote “The course of true love was never smooth” by William Shakespeare and how it compares to “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen is true because from the beginning of the novel none of the sisters knew who they were dating they would be married, there was no original order as to how the sisters would get married. There were a lot of love triangles and mixed signals between the sisters and the men trying to get them to get married.