The Heroine Completes Her Hero's Journey

Just when Elizabeth Bennet feels attraction to Darcy, and he seems to return her regard, she learns from her sister Jane's letter that Lydia has run off with Wickham, and her world falls apart. This event is without doubt the ordeal every hero must face. Lydia represents the shadow, who acts on the base innermost desires inside of everyone. Certainly for a Regency Miss, the desire to thwart the very tight corset society demanded of every woman with any pretense to gentility, must have been a ...