... summer. Kitty is away from Lydia's influence and matures quickly by spending time with Jane and Elizabeth. 10. Mary Bennet: The plain one in the family, works hard for knowledge and accomplishments, conceited manner, bookish. 11. Mr. Darcy: Bingley's friend, tall, handsome features, of noble blood. Pemberley's ... and they become great friends after Darcy and Elizabeth wed and move into Pemberley. 20. Mrs. Phillips: Mrs. Bennet's sister. Invites the whole Bennet family to a dinner party after Mr. Collins" arrival. 21. Miss de Bourgh: Lady de Bourgh's daughter, sickly and cross. 22. Colon...

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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 ... his true feelings and hands it to Elizabeth. The letter is the turning point of the novel. Elizabeth, the only character who is seeking only true love in a marriage, is totally blind when it is right in front of her. She becomes "absolutely ashamed of herself" (171). Up to t...

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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 officer ... and offended when she refuses him. He quickly turns his attention to Elizabeth's friend, Charlotte Lucas, who wants to marry for security rather than love. The two are soon engaged and married. At the same time, Jane is dismayed to find out that B...

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... for their necessity. Austen reveals many messages through her characters on her major theme, being marriage. Elizabeth and Darcy share common interests that help reflect their love and marriage. During Elizabeth's stay in Pemberly while Jane is ill, Austen reveals to the readers, that Elizabeth and Darcy share a common interest. For ... " character, connections, I am convinced happiness with him is as fair- p105. Charlotte's idea of marriage is completely different of that of Elizabeth. Charlotte doesn't" need love to make her happy, just that of social security. Charlotte wishes for a st...

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... house and be left destitute. Therefore for the survival of the girls and their mother at least one of them must make a favourable marriage. Jane falls in love with the afore mentioned eligible bachelor', and though they are split up by a friend' for a while they do eventually marry. An extremely rich and famous ... 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 op...

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... a high social status, Darcy is very rare in that his intentions are not for a marriage to further his reputation or fortune, but for love, which Austen sees as the best basis for marriage. It is for this reason that Darcy goes to such lengths to keep Elizabeth as he ... tarnishing her reputation forever if a marriage does not ensue. Darcy would not be able to connect himself with such an incident, so because of his love for Elizabeth, he proceeds to travel to London, encounter Mr. Wickham, and pay him the amount he desired to wed Lydia. Also, Darcy's character ... and Mrs. Bennet's dism...

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... class she would normally marry a man in the middle class if she married. Rarely she could get lucky, and a high class man or a rich man would fall in love with her and marry her. It was very uncommon for a woman to marry a man who was in a lower state of status. Mr. Bennet was a gentleman. ... Bennet heard about Mr. Bingley's coming to Netherfield, and she asked Mr. Bennet to go introduce himself to Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bennet introduced himself, and his family was invited to a ball where Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy would be present. Jane and Elizabeth met their future husbands at this ball. ...

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... impression on the wealthy Mr. Bingley. Mrs. Bennet, quite an insufferable creature, wants nothing more than for her girls to marry into wealthy, land-owning families. Love, a romantic ideal, has nothing to do with a proper match. However, money does not an inheritance make. Jane Bennet, the first of the girls in ... uncle is an attorney in Meryton" (8, 32). The reply, "Yes; and they have another, who lives somewhere near Cheapside" (8, 32). The fact that the family comes from a background in which work, not ownership was the means of production is looked upon in a condescending manner. ...

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... a contrasting young man, Mr. Darcy. Darcy is visiting Charles Bingley, the handsome and wealthy bachelor who has recently moved to the Bennet's hometown of Loungborne. Through the winding, fairytale-like love story of these two retrograde personalities, Elizabeth discovers Mr. Darcy's haughtiness and imposing character is quite different than expected. His feelings toward Elizabeth evolve from arrogance to ... love over the course of the page-turning novel. Elizabeth chases her tail searching for truth in this epic love story and her entertaining, estrogen-bubbling family seeks matrimon...

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... a contrasting young man, Mr. Darcy. Darcy is visiting Charles Bingley, the handsome and wealthy bachelor who has recently moved to the Bennet's hometown of Loungborne. Through the winding, fairytale-like love story of these two retrograde personalities, Elizabeth discovers Mr. Darcy's haughtiness and imposing character is quite different than expected. His feelings toward Elizabeth evolve from arrogance to ... love over the course of the page-turning novel. Elizabeth chases her tail searching for truth in this epic love story and her entertaining, estrogen-bubbling family seeks matrimon...

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... Longbourn estate, is a pompous and odious man, who serves as the perfect example of impertinance in the human character. He is first introduced to the Bennet family when they receive a letter from him requesting that they allow him to stay at Longbourn for a week. Elizabeth is cheifly struck by his gratitude toward ... to help Bingley on. She believes that the most important thing is to first secure a man, and think about leisurely falling in love afterwards. She states that happiness in marriage is entirely just a matter of chance. Upon hearing this Elizabeth laughs and tells her friend...

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... Longbourn estate, is a pompous and odious man, who serves as the perfect example of impertinance in the human character. He is first introduced to the Bennet family when they receive a letter from him requesting that they allow him to stay at Longbourn for a week. Elizabeth is cheifly struck by his gratitude toward ... to help Bingley on. She believes that the most important thing is to first secure a man, and think about leisurely falling in love afterwards. She states that happiness in marriage is entirely just a matter of chance. Upon hearing this Elizabeth laughs and tells her friend...

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Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, has been a favorite, most memorable novel throughout the years. Austen tells the story of the Bennet family using many different themes and underlying meanings. She presents pride, prejudice, love, and money as the important aspects of that time period. Kenneth L. Moler reveals his theories on the novel's symbolic values in Pride and Prejudice: a Study ... Bingley and Mr. Darcy's libraries (Moler 50). Mr. Bingley's smaller, not-so extravagant library reveals his casual personality, while Darcy's generation-passed, extraordinary library reveals his p...

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... because of its honesty and wit. Despite stereotypes and expectations, people know the darker side of life, reality. No one person is completely honest with all their friends, or even family. These aspects are brilliantly brought out in Pride and Prejudice. While watching TV and playing on computers slowly takes the place of reading and playing in the yard, dreams take ... over our mind's sense of reality. Since reality is not often seriously spoken of, readers love to hear about it from others in different sources, books. "It is a pitch-perfect piece of social commentary, brilliantly di...

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... Pride and Prejudice Author Jane Austen, the author of the novel £ ­Pride and Prejudice, was born in 1775, and lived the quiet country life of an English middle-class family of the time, hardly touched by outside events, even the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. It is this life that she describes in her half-dozen novels. Her world ... excited the Bennets, especially Mrs. Bennet. She was thinking about the young man marrying one of her daughters. In the ball held by Mr. Bingley, he and Jane fell in love with each other. There was another rich handsome unmarried young man, Mr....

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... bachelor, Mr. Bingley, has arrived, Mrs. Bennet, without even meeting him, has already decided that one of her daughters will marry him. At the ball, Mr. Bingley arrives with his family and a friend named Darcy. Elizabeth's attention does not immediately go to Mr. Bingley however, but instead it goes to his friend Darcy. Thus the stage is set for the two ... couples, Jane Bennet and Bingley and Darcy and Elizabeth, to meet and to possibly fall in love with each other or at least, one another's status. "If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield , I shall have no...

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