... than the simple retribution formula allows. Illustrating the Text God’s work with humans is more complex than Elihu understands. Literature: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. In this nineteenth-century British novel (1813), Elizabeth Bennet is convinced that Fitzwilliam Darcy is aloof and judgmental, while he is convinced that Elizabeth is not his social and intellectual equal. So each disdains the other. Later in the story, both come to realize that their perceptions have been partially or totally ...