Twenty years after Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication, Jane Austen created Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth, as Fullerton says, is a " highly unconventional, new sort of heroine and it is easy for modern readers to understand just how astonishing she was for the readers of the time." Elizabeth is definitely the heroine of the novel. Not only does she explicitly represent one word of the title of the novel, she also quite thoroughly dominates the action. She is witty, loyal, clever, beautiful and loving. She is a fun loving girl. She likes to laugh at peoples' follies- " She had lively, playful disposition which delighted in anything ridiculous." Her wit and sense of sarcasm is pertinent when, asked to dance with Darcy, she says " Mr Darcy is all politeness." Again, when Darcy reveals his idea of accomplished woman - a woman who can sing...