purposes. It is more to be based on Jane’s indifferent behaviour towards Bingley and the Bennet’s inferiority; he decides to discourage Bingley’s marriage with
Jane. This is Darcy’s prejudice in the novel.
…
But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister’s countenance and air was such, as might have given the most acute
observer, a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.---That I was desirous of
believing her indifferent is certain,---but I will venture to say that my investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my
hopes or fears.---I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it;---I believed it on impartial conviction, as truly as I
wished it in reason … The situation of your mother’s family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison of that total want
of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your
father. 185
B. The Changes Due to the Love Problems in Their Personality Development
This part discusses about the changes due to the love problems in their personality development. To have the understanding of the changes in the main
characters the writer uses the psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud and the emotional intelligence theory from Daniel Goleman. By using the theories, we
could find the changes of personality in the main characters with more significant results.
1. Daniel Goleman’s changes
Everyone has emotional intelligence even in every character in the novel. However, the emotional intelligence of these two main characters is discussed in
this study. Their emotional intelligence from the beginning of the novel improves PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
from the state when Darcy is proud and Elizabeth is prejudiced to a state of realizing that it is wrong and willing to change to a better personality.
The key point that is crucial to the personality development of the main characters happens when Darcy tries to propose to Elizabeth. When Elizabeth
rejects him for not behaving in a ‘gentleman-like manner’ 181; ch. 34 towards her, he begins to realize the vanity that comes from his pride.
How Darcy can control his emotion when he tries to propose to Lizzie although she refuses it harshly, shows us his strong Emotional Intelligence. How
he could be aware of his emotion, in this case, anger, is his Emotional Self- Awareness. When he manages his emotion and chooses not to let the anger
control him is his Emotional Self-Regulation. When he is aware of the mistakes that he has done, she is ashamed of his loves 224 and later tries to solve the
problem, by writing a letter to explain it to Lizzie is his Emotional Self- Motivation. Those are the steps of the intrapersonal skills in Emotional
Intelligence. He knows that he has to write a letter because he realizes that Elizabeth is still angry and prejudiced towards him. This is again showing us
Darcy’s Emotional Intelligence that is his first interpersonal skill, Empathy. He could see this because he put himself in someone else’s shoes so he can
understand her point of view towards the situation. The personality development happens after Darcy’s proposal. He realizes and admits his mistakes and tries to
change his attitudes. In addition, the way Darcy proves the changes in a more ‘gentleman-like
manner’ is by being friendly towards the Gardiners, helping with Lydia’s PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
marriage with Wickham, and persuading Bingley to marry Jane. Besides, the whole process in his change of personality is affected by his love for Lizzie, ‘I
thought only of you’ 331; ch. 58. This whole process of love leads him to the last basic emotional competency that is Nurturing Relationship.
While for Elizabeth, actually from the beginning of the story she already has the two basic emotional competencies. We could notice that from the way she
keeps her emotion after overhearing Darcy’s slighting her at Meryton 22. This event is her Emotional Self-Awareness. Furthermore, her action, not to quickly
get angry with Darcy after that event is her Emotional Self-Regulation. The change in Elizabeth’s personality development occurs in the process
of the novel as well as Darcy. It happens when Darcy gives her the letter that explains the reason for his action to Bingley and Wickham. She realizes that her
prejudice of him is wrong and feels ashamed of her prejudice towards Darcy after she knows the truth 236.
When she reads Darcy’s letter, she begins to learn not to judge people’s characters quickly by her feelings and temper. The Emotional Self-Motivation
occurs here, she tries to release positive and productive emotions towards Darcy. This happens because Elizabeth feels guilty of her judgment to Darcy. When she
sees how Charlotte could manage her ‘impossible’ marriage for her own financial purpose, she begins to learn that besides love, people also need financial security
in marriage. This is Empathy; she learns the ‘reasonable’ Charlotte’s point of view on marriage that is based on financial security. Later, after learning this,
Darcy fulfils her quest on marriage both with love and financial consideration. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Furthermore, Elizabeth tries to prove the change of her personality by removing all of her former prejudice to Darcy, she also feels guilty to hurt his
pride and again this is the forth basic of emotional competencies, namely Empathy. She puts herself in Darcy’s condition and then acknowledges that
feeling. After knowing how much Darcy loves her and his true personality that ‘he has no improper pride’ 341, she starts to love Darcy and accepts his second
proposal. This is her Nurturing Relationship. How she set the positive tone of cooperation with Darcy, in this context to relationship based on love towards
marriage. The results of this personality development in both Elizabeth and Darcy bring us to a very happy and agreeable ending.
2. How Their Love Problems Affected Their Personality Development
This part will analyze the love of the main characters in the novel mainly, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Moreover, through the analysis we will
find the kind of love that they have towards each other. Darcy, at the beginning of the novel, feels that he is in love with Elizabeth
from her fine eyes. He feels something different from any other girls that he knows. The fine eyes also symbolize the bold, attractive yet bright personalities
that she has. However, later in the novel when Darcy proposes to Lizzie, we can see Darcy’s insincere love because he still considers his higher social status
compared to her family’s inferiority. When Lizzie explains the reason of her rejection to his proposal, he soon realizes that his love is immature. Darcy’s
feelings have grown stronger because Lizzie criticizes him like no one else can, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
concerning his high-social status. This is the beginning of communication in their relationship towards love.
Darcy, after knowing the reason, immediately explains through his writing to Lizzie and accepts her judgment of his fake love. This is what true love can
bring, he starts to change his attitude especially his pride to prove his love to Lizzie. The way he proves his change can be seen in the way he treats the
Gardiners, helps Lydia and Wickham’s marriage and helps Bingley’s relationship towards Jane. Moreover, at the end of the novel he explains that now he sees
Lizzie not from her family’s inferiority, learns to respect her family and says that the changes happen because he thinks ‘only’ of her 331.
While Lizzie is in a process of learning love and reasonable marriage in this novel, she meets Wickham and feels the attraction but after knowing that
Wickham searches for financial consideration instead of mutual relationship; she begins to learn that love, based only on romance and physical attraction, seems to
be superficial. When she meets Charlotte and her financial marriage with Collins, she learns that marriage also needs financial consideration. Jane Austen’s
wittiness to tell the readers that Darcy is Lizzie’s perfect partner in life is clearly seen. When Elizabeth sees Pemberly at first, admires the view and says that ‘to be
mistress of Pemberly might be something’ 223, the author, Jane Austen here wants to reveal Elizabeth’s love for Darcy and Jane continues to give us more
clues by providing the description of Darcy’s personality from his housekeeper that he is ‘good-natured, sweetest tempered and the most generous hearted boy in
