Plot

In every novel or story that we read there is always a plot.  Yet there are different means of incorporating the plot.  In Pride and Prejudice, the story starts from the beginning as in its not in the middle of action.  In the exposition, it explains the background to the story and lets the reader know who everyone is.  Giving a brief introduction.  However, what is interesting about Austen's novel is that there are 2 main plots going on at the same time with both totally different means yet the same outcome for both.  The raising action is when Mr. Bingley and Ms. Bennet start falling in love with each other and that leads to them dancing at the  ball and then continuing their romance when Ms. Bennet visits the Bingley and the way Bingley expresses his love for her.  Yet we reach the climax when Elizabeth reads the letters from Bingley's sisters.  That climax really is the hight of the tension of the novel.  The failing action is the consequence of the break up and how when Ms. Bennet leaves for London hoping to see Bingley but she doesn't.  However there is another raising action as Bingley comes back to the Bennets house looking for Jane.  The first few nights while he is at there house, the raising action occurs leading up to the marriage proposal.  Once Bingley proposes, we reach the climax and as Jane accepts, we start to see the failing action of her family finding out.  We reach the conclusion as they all live happily ever after.  Also at the same time Liz and Darcy first meet and we see the raising action as Darcy humiliates Liz.  He also very arrogant, yet his arrogance is tamed as he starts to fall in love with Liz.  This is a continuation of the raising action as he continues to chase for her heart, but after she found out that Darcy ruined her sisters marriage, Liz denies Darcy once again.  This is still the raising action until we lead up to the climax.  "Till this moment i never knew myself" this is Liz's self realization that she has mistakenly discerned Darcy.  The failing action is when he proposes a second time and she accepts.  The failing action is also when she has to go tell the family about her marriage.  The denouement is that they live happily every after.