Characters Darcy and the Ghost

The overall plot is an important element to every story; however, there would be no plot if it wasn't for characters in stories creating conflict with one another. Pride and Prejudice, for example, wouldn't be as interesting if Darcy and Elizabeth didn't have a love-hate relationship to spark the reader's interest. In addition, Hamlet would be dull without Claudius murdering Hamlet's father and Hamlet wanting revenge. Conflict usually arises when someone acts as a catalyst and intervenes in a negative way by talking someone else into or out of doing something, thus altering the plot. In both cases the Ghost of Hamlet's father and Darcy intervene and create conflict. The ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him and he should therefore avenge his soul. Without the ghost, Hamlet would never spend the entirety of the play seeking revenge. Darcy, on the other hand, intervenes in his friend Mr. Bingley's life by insisting he not marry Jane because she is from a lower class. Once Elizabeth discovers this, she continues despising Darcy despite his devotion to her. With negative intervening comes positive intervening. Darcy redeems himself in Elizabeth's eyes by ensuring that Wickham and Lydia marry by paying for the whole event. His good deed allows for Elizabeth to fall in love with him. Another example of a character reacting to the world around him is Prufrock. His tone is melancholy throughout his dramatic monologue. He even prefers to live a life under the sea that on land in his society: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Prufrock doesn't fit in and he believes life couldn't be any worse in the ocean as a crab than now. At least he could be left in solitude literally than amongst tons of people but still alone in the figurative sense. Someone like him could not get along with someone like Mrs. Bennet because she enjoys being around people since she's a product of her society.