I Can’t Get No Satisfaction Elizabeth Bennet is described in the beginning of the novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, as having “something more of quickness than her sisters.”(2) Elizabeth is a self-sufficient, independent girl, who possesses a quality that is rare to young women during that time period: intuition. She can easily see through people if they are translucent, when other people may not even realize. In a way, Elizabeth is too …showed first 75 words of 935 total…

…showed last 75 words of 935 total…what society dictates to them. The more Elizabeth “see[s] of the world, the more [she] is dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms [her] belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependency that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense”(116). Elizabeth’s intuition is used on people like Collins, Charlotte and Bingley, which only confirms her theory that humans are the biggest disappointment of life.