Jane Austen grew up in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when British culture was surrounded by a variety of domestic concerns about money, status, and property. Therefore, people mainly focused on wealth within their own family. Austen uses satirical references about marriage to show that it was normal for daughters to be censored from what they generally want in a marriage because they became the income of their families' wealth. As a result, personal desires and flaws are tied to society's expectations. This is why people started having pride, or having a high opinion of themselves, and prejudice, or judging people before getting to know them. They are proud of their social class, of being married and of 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 shown through the characters' flaws, however, one character manages to overcome the judgments and opinions he forms and progresses to become a more mature individual. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Lydia Bennet have excessive pride that blinds their judgments and decisions and influences their actions immensely. Darcy, a proud landowner, sees no reason to care about people who are not as educated, wealthy, or sophisticated as he is. Thus, when Charles Bingley suggests that Darcy dance with Elizabeth Bennet, Darcy says, “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am not at present in the mood to give importance to young women who are despised by other men" (Austen 7). Darcy makes it clear that he is proud of his reputation and class. Therefore, Darcy does not think that Elizabeth is enough good for him to dance with or even with the middle of the paper than mine” (57) and assume that is what everyone has done. Now he understands that a person's conduct is much more important than his class progress, Darcy achieves self-knowledge that allows him to know that pride in oneself is healthy, at the right time and place. In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen two characters are driven towards themes of pride personal and prejudice due to one's self-admiration. The founding of England in the late 18th and 19th centuries influenced the characters of this time into thinking that the purpose of marriage was to support their family class. to be economically stable. Causing them to become prideful and prejudiced based on a variety of domestic concerns about money, status and property.