... the difference between Mr. & Mrs. Bennet- the product of a common Augustan marriage. "Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of ... their initial attraction fades. Mrs. Bennet cannot be blamed for this unhappy state of marriage. She comes from a conventional 18th century middle class family, where girls don't receive proper education and the standard of culture was low. Mr. Bennet's attitude is filled with too muc...

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... is a senseless and a very incomplete woman. Austen lived a lot of her dreams through her novels since they were based on observation of her family and friends. Her writing was filled by her total artistic command over her daily experiences ("Jane Austen-, British authors of the nineteenth century). Jane Austen ... classical scholar with a taste for fiction. Their home was larger than most homes at the time, but it did not seem large to such a big family ("Jane Austen-, British Women Writers). Her parents sent her brothers Henry and James to a boarding school, where they later edited a l...

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... behaviour, was sharpened into particular resentment, by his having slighted one of her daughters.? (Page 12) Mr Darcy judges Elizabeth and the Bennett family on social status, and takes an immediate dislike to them, because of their financial situation and rank on the socio economic status. Although the ... deceptive and the entire society is proved to have misjudged Wickham, based on their misconceptions and first impressions. He is exposed to the Bennett family shortly after his elopement with Lydia Bennett, a 16 year old girl who he did not intend to marry, but only to take advantag...

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... younger sisters are still chasing young officers. Suddenly when everything looks its brightest for Jane, Bingley picks up and leaves Netherfield. This event leaves the family in total despair. Elizabeth decides to go off to live with her aunt in London, Jane goes with another aunt, and Lydia leaves for Brighton ... comes that Lydia has run off with Wickham. Lydia's improper actions will surely ruin any of her sisters chances of becoming decently married. The entire family will be sure to be outcasts. Running off with a man you are not properly married to is not tolerated during an Age ...

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... as Darcy at the beginning of story Lady Catherine is full of pride and prejudice. Her pride makes her immediately looks down on the family of Bennet because she thinks that Bennets family has failed in "traditional way" of educating and breeding the growing child without any governess "No governess! How was that possible I ... Later in the story, he agrees to marry Lydia only because he is paid by Darcy to retain the reputation of Bennet's family "Wickham never intended to go there, or to marry Lydia." (P. 223). He has no self-abasement for degrade the fame of Lydia and her ... When the ...

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... marriages, the main contrast being those who marry for money and those who marry for love. Other motives for marriage included physical beauty, the family name and connections, and also societal constraints, which provided very little choice. In the society of the time, marriage was almost necessary, ... of marrying made love to be considered irrelevant. The importance of marriage extended beyond the couple and had a great impact on the entire family. Mrs Bennet was obsessive with marrying off her daughters. The business of her life was to get her daughters married. Her daughters finding...

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... that clearly illustrates the importance of women being able to find a suitable husband to settle down with; for the sake of both herself and her family. This is a particularly sensitive matter in the Bennet household, where five daughters need to find husbands before the passing of their own father to ... their own future happiness depend on their ability to navigate through their own pride and prejudices regarding one another, but the fate of Elizabeth's family is squarely placed on their shoulders as well. Darcy is a wealthy aristocrat from Northern England who comes across as rather r...

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... ; however, is short-lived. Edward's brother, Robert, visits Lucy in hopes of persuading her to abandon her plan to marry Edward so that he might be welcomed back into the family. Although Austen does not provide the details of the visit, she allows Edward to surmise after the fact what may have led to Robert and Lucy's marriage. Austen writes, " ... Mrs. Ferrars. Austen describes her as sour-faced, ill-tempered and bad-natured. After learning of Edward and Lucy's secret engagement, Mrs. Ferrars first attempts bribery; she promises Edward a handsome family estate if he will break off ...

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... Darcy also opposes the relationship and believes that Jane is indifferent to Bingley. Meanwhile, Darcy finds himself attracted to Elizabeth despite his objections to her family. As Darcy grows more interested in Elizabeth, Elizabeth continues to despise him and is instead attracted to George Wickham, a handsome and personable militia ... accepts Wickham's account without question, disliking Darcy even more because of it. In the midst of Jane and Elizabeth's developing relationships, the Bennet family is visited by Mr. Bennet's cousin, Mr. Collins. He plans to propose to Elizabeth, but is...

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... of literature exhibits the time period's life style and significance by giving the readers a feel of what would be of importance to a typical family in relation to the time period. Austen's novel contains many personalities of that era, as well as emphasizes the importance of marriage, education, ... any situation. The object of Elizabeth's affection, Mr. Darcy, comments towards the middle of the book, "The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison of the total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your thr...

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... of his most meaningful contributions to the plot is the influence he exerts on Elizabeth. She is obviously his favorite, and probably the only one in his family that he feels real fatherly love for. This is seen from the fact that even though he is often very reserved and distant, the one time he ... he display the guilt he feels for being an irresponsible and distant father but also assumes a part of the blame for the way his family has become. This is the most evident display of this character's importance to the plot by far. All through the novel the Bennet ... family is in an unfa...

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... my understanding of the novel; key themes and issues are signalled at the novel's outset. The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl, Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick's History of British Birds. Jane's aunt, Mrs Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana ... social preconceptions of nineteenth-century Victorian society. Themes of social class, gender relations, and injustice predominate throughout. Jane Eyre begins her story as an orphan raised by a wealthy and cultivated fa...

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... dance, and had numerous suitors. As it turned out, however, neither Jane nor her sister Cassandra ever married. After her father's passing, Jane's family was supported by the wealth acquired by one of her brother's. Setting: The story takes place in early19th century England, among middle class society. The ... where the younger Bennet girls frequent to visit the stationed militia, and finally to the distant grand estate of Pemberely belonging to Mr. Darcy's family. Atmosphere: The atmosphere is formal and realistic. Formal, because the women and families the story centers around must li...

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... The life pattern of the majority was the same. Embroidery and reading were amongst the few specialties the women were capable of. The whole family would gather around the one thought to be most capable and listen to the different pieces of writing they would read out. Such was ... reader draw certain similarities. Maintaining a socially acceptable behavior dominates her writings. She is always critical of characters who break the rules and pry into family affairs. She presents them in the garb of comic roles. For example Mrs Jennings and Lady Catherine. Whereas Sir John and Mrs Collins re...

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... to further associate Darcy as the ideal husband; showing how Mr. Bennet is a poor father through his relationship with his family and how he reacts within their given situations. His apathy for the futures of his daughters is, though sometimes humorous, a severe inadequacy for ... his responsibility to his family. A certain instance would be during Jane's disturbance of Mr. Bingley remaining in London all winter and with Elizabeth's budding relationship with Mr ... his daughters or aids them in any manner. Shots of cynicism seem to be the only dialogue Mr. Bennet chooses to exchange wit...

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... according to their wealth and eligibility. Women's property became her husband's when she finally married. Of course all marriages, of all young women, had to be approved of by the family. The young women were introduced into society at an early age. The introduction was an indication of their availability. Young girls spent their entire lives preparing for marriage. They learned ... long as they were discreet. The elder Bennet's marriage was a marriage of security. They Mrs. Collins married for the sake of getting married and settling down. Her desire to have a family of her own overro...

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... the undeniable reality of the Bennets" impending impoverishment, should they fail to secure rich husbands. Effectively disinherited by the fine print of their father's will, the future of their whole family is staked on their choice of suitors, now that they have reached marriageable age - as is reflected very effectively by Mrs. Bennet's neuroticism! Aside from the personal difficulties of the ... Bennet family, there lies in the background of "Pride And Prejudice" the grim historical reality of the time. 1790's England was a time of "political crisis and social mobility" (Jones, V., e...

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Pride and Prejudice The novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is centred on the Bennet family, a family consisting of Mrs Bennet, a rather silly, flighty woman, Mr Bennet, a man with a dry sense of humour, and their five daughters. The recurring themes of this novel are, as the title ... there is no way that Lizzie will accept him - "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed". He exposes all his prejudices against her family, and states exactly why he feels it is such a bad idea for him to propose, rather than declaring his love for her. "His sense of h...

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... come, since you will not visit them." (Austen 4). Even something as simply as making friends, women needed men; along with meeting new people, women also need men for a home, family, money, and security. Although the Bennet women have the same last name as the owner of their estate, it is given to a distant male cousin. As Austen points out, " ... ;... and [Mrs. Bennet] was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about." (Austen 46). Dis...

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... affected by money is Lydia and Whickham when she becomes his lover out of wedlock; and it is Mr. Darcy's money that convinces Whickham to marry Lydia so the Bennet family is not disgraced, "His debts are to be paid, amounting, I believe to a considerably more than a thousand pounds, another thousand in addition to her own settled upon her, and his ... believe that social classes should be broken down but only between middle class and the aristocrats. I believe Austen wouldn't have had Elizabeth marry someone of a poorer social standing then her family, even though she has been projected...

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... them profitable marriages. Her lack of self-awareness constantly embarrasses Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet alike. Mr. Bennet An intelligent man, Mr. Bennet displays an unfortunate disinterest in most of his family, besides Elizabeth. He seems weary after spending many decades married to the interminable Mrs. Bennet. He is shaken only when Lydia's poor decisions in Brighton threatens her future. Where and ... these two themes that create the main conflict in the story, which is Elizabeth's dislike of Darcy and Darcy's unrequited love for Elizabeth. Summary The story starts when the Bennet fam...

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... a person. In the beginning of the novel, Harriet tells Emma about a man she is interested in named Mr. Robert Martin. Emma immediately takes this opportunity to pry about the Martin family. She finds out that Mr. Martin is a single man, and a farmer. She begins to speak to Harriet about the idea of being from "good society."" Emma begins to teach Harriet ... match Harriet with Mr. Elton instead, because in Emma's eyes his social standing is more respectable for a lady of Highbury. Emma does not realize that her comments about the Martin family are actually uncalled for and very unladyli...

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... time both Darcy and Elizabeth spend at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy's home. Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel, commands the role of the second daughter of five from a middle class family, in Hertfordshire, England. She is a narrator of sorts, reflecting the opinion of the author (A Literary History of England 1205). Critic A.C. Bradley said, "Elizabeth Bennet is a girl we are meant to ... his pride and reserve that makes her unable to see what lies beneath it (Moler 26)." Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy comes from the north with long Anglo-Norman aristocratic lineage. His family is rumored t...

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... . Especially because Mr. Collins was the type of man every woman wanted. He was socially desirable and could provide Elizabeth with a good social status, a home, and stability for the Bennet family. But realistically, Mr. Collins would have drove Elizabeth insane and she could not love him. At this point in the novel, the audience understands that Elizabeth's views on marrying for ... . Bennet was seduced by Mr. Bennet's good looks and youth and the turnout of this situation is that Mr. Bennet ends up isolating himself and pushes himself away from his family. The only place where he fee...

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... true personality. Her judgment is usually correct, in that she immediately sees Mr Collins as a pompous fool, and Lady Catherine as a tyrant. She can also see the faults of her family despite her closeness and love to them. The only problem with this is that she is quick to judge and once she has judged will stay with this opinion until ... , sound and considerate marriage, where neither of them will ever be hurt. The girls have similar characters, both are good, kind people who want to help others and respect their family. The difference is in their personalities, Jane is looks for pure...

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