<P> Many critics take the novel 's title as a starting point when analysing the major themes of Pride and Prejudice ; however , Robert Fox cautions against reading too much into the title because commercial factors may have played a role in its selection . `` After the success of Sense and Sensibility , nothing would have seemed more natural than to bring out another novel of the same author using again the formula of antithesis and alliteration for the title . It should be pointed out that the qualities of the title are not exclusively assigned to one or the other of the protagonists ; both Elizabeth and Darcy display pride and prejudice . '' Although the phrase `` pride and prejudice '' had been used over the preceding two centuries by Joseph Hall , Jeremy Taylor , Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson , Austen probably took her title from a passage in Fanny Burney 's Cecilia ( 1782 ) , a popular novel she is known to have admired : </P>
<P> Many critics take the novel 's title as a starting point when analysing the major themes of Pride and Prejudice ; however , Robert Fox cautions against reading too much into the title because commercial factors may have played a role in its selection . `` After the success of Sense and Sensibility , nothing would have seemed more natural than to bring out another novel of the same author using again the formula of antithesis and alliteration for the title . It should be pointed out that the qualities of the title are not exclusively assigned to one or the other of the protagonists ; both Elizabeth and Darcy display pride and prejudice . '' Although the phrase `` pride and prejudice '' had been used over the preceding two centuries by Joseph Hall , Jeremy Taylor , Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson , Austen probably took her title from a passage in Fanny Burney 's Cecilia ( 1782 ) , a popular novel she is known to have admired : </P>
who has the pride in pride and prejudice
who has the pride in pride and prejudice
both Elizabeth and Darcy
both Elizabeth and Darcy