The novel "Pride and Prejudice," one of the most important texts in English literature, is complex and therefore open to multiple interpretations. It could be described as a "comedy of manners" of the English landed gentry of the late 18th to early 19th century, a realistic "family novel," or a testament to the transition of Antebellum society into the modern world. Above all, however, it is a study of the fate of women in a society that was unable to see them as individuals with judgment, opinions, choices, and masculine characteristics, which were characteristic for the time. From this perspective, this novel is deeply feminist, and its central heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, who rebels against this situation and ultimately triumphs, is a precursor to the liberated woman of today.