Title: Major male character analysis in Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations,

Wuthering Heights and A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Submitted to: Prof. Syed Anwarul Haq. Chairman, Dept. of English.

Abstract

This Paper focuses to illustrate the major male character analysis in Pride and Prejudice,

Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, and A Portray of an Artist as a Young Man. It has

also tried utmost to include some new thoughts reading these novels and also focused in the

differences among the major male characters, their actions, their ideology, their life style and

others related things. Necessary and related information has been collected from the internet

and from various books. In Pride and Prejudice, we find the male society that is dominating

the women society and women are subject to worry about their future. In this novel we find,

Mr. Bingley is handsome, friendly, and wealthy young man. He is a foil (contrast) to Mr.

Darcy, who is, at first, snobby and rude. Mr. Darcy is proud, haughty and extremely

conscious of class differences (at least at the beginning of the novel). He does, however, have

a strong sense of honor and virtue and a degree of fairness that helps him to control his pride

after Elizabeth rebukes him for his narrow-minded perspective. Mr. Bennet An intelligent

man with good sense, Mr. Bennet displays an unfortunate disinterest in most of his family

(besides Elizabeth). He seems weary after spending many decades married to the

interminable Mrs. Bennet. In Great Expectations, we find Pip as the protagonist, is

passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect more for

himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to

improve himself, both morally and socially. We find Joe Gargery - Pips brother-in-law, the

village blacksmith, Joe stays with his overbearing, abusive wifeknown as Mrs. Joesolely

out of love for Pip. Joes quiet goodness makes him one of the few completely sympathetic

characters in Great Expectations. Although he is uneducated and unrefined, he consistently

acts for the benefit of those he loves and suffers in silence when Pip treats him coldly. In

Wuthering Heights, we trace about the infinity love and vengeance of Heathcliff. Heathcliffs

humiliation and misery prompt him to spend most of the rest of his life seeking revenge on

Hindley, his beloved Catherine, and their respective children (Hareton and young Catherine).

A powerful, fierce, and often cruel man, Heathcliff acquires a fortune and uses his

extraordinary powers of will to acquire both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, the

estate of Edgar Linton. Edgar Linton - Well-bred but rather spoiled as a boy, Edgar Linton

grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man. He is almost the ideal gentleman.

In James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we find the frustration of a

young boy named Stephen Dedalus. Stephen Dedalus Afflicted with poor eyesight and

lacking both physical stamina and athletic prowess, Stephen develops an early, introspective,

intellectual curiosity. Like many sensitive young men, Stephen is ashamed of his family's

ever-strained finances. Later, he is troubled when he realizes the ineffectiveness and

emptiness of both Irish nationalism and Catholicism. Eventually, Stephen feels himself

becoming increasingly isolated from others. Finally, he vows to escape all forms of

emotional, intellectual, and spiritual repression. He leaves Ireland for the Continent, in search

of his artistic soul.