... the importance of marriage by saying, "I am not a romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only for a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collin's character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most can boast on ... smart witty statement, in contrast to her mother who never seems to have right remark in 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 ... so frequently, so ...

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... dares to say no to. Only the people he cares about can tame him a little. And there aren't many. Charles Bingley Mr. Bingley is Mr. Darcy's wealthy best friend. He is blissfully unaware or uncaring of class difference. His purchase of the Netherfield estate allows for the ... story to exist. His easy going and well meaning demeanor contrast strongly with Mr. Dracy. Jane Bennet Jane Bennet, the oldest Bennet daughter, is beautiful, humble, and selfless. She is a bit naive because of ... education. Instead, she remains concerned solely with securing them profitable marriages. Her lack of s...

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... where you have to live and care for someone you actually don't. During Jane Austen's time, a situation like this wasn't ever considered. 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 ...    Austen uses the relationships of other characters to contrast the relationship of Darcy and Elizabeth. The author uses the relationships of Charlotte and Mr. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and Wickham and Lydia to differentiate against Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship. The worst re...

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... and Prejudice for any audience who under other circumstances would take no joy in reading any novel by Austen, this one included. In many ways Mr. Bennet stands as a literary monument to the writer's amazing storytelling ability. While his personality sticks out among others in the novel like a sore ... 's daughter - smart, witty and realistic. Even as she develops as a person during the progress of the events, the qualities Elizabeth obviously inherited from Mr. Bennet allow her for a better perception of what is really going on inside her. It is true that she dares to do something her ...

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... during the course of the book. Darcy and Elizabeth see that they are shortsighted in the judgments they make of each other and other people. Kenneth Moler says, "Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are very complicated combinations of high intelligence, discriminating taste, emotional sensitivity, and, on the other hand, a sort of moral blindness regarding themselves and others (Moler 6). This change of insight ... offering a large sum of money and a promise to further his career in the military (Wright 108). The concealing of Jane's presence in London largely contributes to Elizabeth's initial dis...

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... control over money and power, a good nature and a strong father figure, but also by contrasting him through characters such George Wickham and Mr. Bennet and their lack of such distinctions. Austen portrays her consummate husband through Darcy. At first, Austen uses Darcy to confront a social ... Austen alludes to through such a character example. Alongside this, Darcy is more a father figure than any other character in the book, not including Mr. Gardiner. On one occasion, Darcy uses his influence and power wisely enough to avert a possible disaster, which can be shown by touching back...

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... Prejudice has large influence over how characters are initially viewed by other characters, and when most characters are introduced their financial status is stated, "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room "of his having ten thousand a year". (P10) This influence has a substantial effect on ... people falling in love with each other and whom they will marry; this is particularly evident between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy and also Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennet. Pride and Prejudice was written in the early Regency Period in England, where social classes where changing and a ... a...

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... Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown" (Chapter XLII). The intellectual dissimilarity between Mr. & Mrs. Bennet ties them to an unhappy bond after their initial attraction fades. Mrs. Bennet cannot be blamed for this unhappy state of ... . 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 much negligence and disapproval. This affects the children in the family too. Austen shows her di...

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... on first impressions is immoral and unjust. (-She useshumour? to help convey this in a less-serious tone.) For example, Mrs Bennett's first impressions of Mr Bingley were based upon his behaviour and physical appearance. ?Oh! My dear, I am quite delighted with him. He is so excessively handsome!? (Page ... Bennett, whose dislike of his general 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 situat...

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... no permanent home. The Dashwood's are invited to stay with distant relatives, Elinor is sad to leave because she has become closely attached to Mr. Ferras, however once she moves she meets many other men, Marianne falls for John Willoughby who then annouunces he must go to London, leaving ... who stands to inherit the property of the Bennet's. Shortly after his arrival, he proposes to Elizabeth and she declines. Shocking news comes when Mr. Collins is engaged to Charlotte Lucas, Charlotte explains that she getting older and needs the marriage for financial reasons. The marriage prospects ...

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... , rather than one with great wealth. Pride is represented by Elizabeth's counterpart, Fitzwilliam Darcy. The first of many marriage proposals in the novel is that of Mr. Collins to Elizabeth. His original intentions are to marry Jane, but Mrs. Bennet tells him that Jane is soon to be engaged to Charles Bingley. He ... and that he is acting on the advice of his patroness, Lady Catherine de Brough. He also mentions that he will inherit the Bennet estate when Mr. Bennet passes away. He tells Elizabeth that he feels a certain responsibility to the daughters to make one of them his wife. Othe...

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... The title "Pride and Prejudice is most appropriate for the novel because the story centers upon the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy and the obstacles (especially their own personal faults) both must overcome before they can find romantic felicity with one another. Elizabeth ... estate 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 live ... q...

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... is nothing but overly polite and obsessed with the aristocracy. He constantly brags about his wealthy patroness and aristocratic connections. As the novel states, " Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society having now a good house ... husband because she knows that there is nothing special about her. She takes on a inconsolable air throughout the novel especially when she accepts Mr. Collins's desperate proposal. According to Austen, "Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been...

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... asks Charlotte why she is going to marry this "disagreeable" man, charlotte replies; "I am not romantic I ask only a comfortable home, and considering Mr. Collins's character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness is fair." With the reader already positioned to view ... presented in the entire novel. Elizabeth is also presented with another proposal for marriage later in text. This proposal is made by the prideful Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. This character is presented to the reader from the first in a negative viewpoint by Elizabeth's views about him...

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... with whom you are to pass your life. Charlotte holds a very pragmatic and conventional view of marriage and is a prototype of a typical young woman in Austens time. Her friendliness to Mr Collins and her willingness to marry merely for financial reasons lead to their marriage. Charlotte was without independent income and therefore needed to marry in order to lead a comfortable lifestyle ... of finding greater happiness by marrying someone who she actually loved. Ironically though, Elizabeth ends up with a marriage more financially advantageous than Charlottes. It is evident from her ref...

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... women started to learn what they needed at a very young age. Their entire childhood is dedicated to becoming the perfect candidate for a bachelor's choosing. Mr. Darcy, literature's archetypal knight in shining armor, names only some of these expectations men had, "...no one can be really esteemed accomplished who ... If a woman did not have all of the skills, money, high social class, education, or beauty, men would not give them a second glance. Furthermore, Mr. Darcy believes that even after being married, a woman still must "[improve] her mind by extensive reading" (Austen 29). The ...

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... 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 stunned and offended when she refuses him. He quickly turns his attention to Elizabeth's friend ... the novel bases choices on wealth and social status. Good and evil are not portrayed much in this novel. Only one "evil" character stands out. Mr. Wickham lies, cheats, and swindles. He pretends to be someone of utmost character and manners. His true character is r...

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... a viewpoint on the common social institutions of Austen's time. Throughout Pride and Prejudice, love is constantly being examined and challenged by the characters of the book. Just as Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are an epic example of the pressures that the female characters are continuously experiencing, Charlotte Lucas is an important part of the novel's characterization for her philosophy of love ... . Charlotte's marriage to Mr. Collins instills a grim note into the romantic happiness that Elizabeth later finds, for her marriage is based "solely from the pure and disinterested desire of ...

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... on her visit to Pemberley, Darcy's ancestral estate, as she herself admits - when discussing with her sister the progress of her feeling's for Mr. Darcy, she states "I believe it must date from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley" (p301). Certain critics have therefore claimed that ... Elizabeth Bennet is mercenary in her reasons for marriage to Mr. Darcy. This apparently gold-digging behaviour would suggest an attempt by Elizabeth not only to retain, but also to improve, her class status ... in plenty of outdoor activity usually viewed as unbecoming to a young lady of s...

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... ). Besides, the life at Lowood leads her to more desire for a belonging because of "the cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood School, Mr. Brocklehurst?(from website). Mr. Brocklehurst makes Lowood become a harsh and monotonic school which is totally different from what Jane thinks the school should be. She is again locked ... Dunn 475). Compared with Jane Eyre's miserable childhood, Elizabeth has a quite sound family for her to develop her sensible and free personality. Her father, Mr. Bennet, seems to be liberal to his daughters but actually he just wants to put these domestic trifles...

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... , Mrs. Bennet is still stuck with five unmarried daughters. Jane is still getting aquatinted with Mr. Bingley, a rich suitor, Elizabeth still has no prospects, and two her three younger sisters are still chasing young officers. Suddenly when everything ... one who helped to locate Wickham and Lydia in London and bring them back to Netherfield. As far as she knows, she believes it is her uncle, Mr. Gardiner, who solves her family's problems. Elizabeth has already made up her mind about Darcy from the first time she became aquatinted with him at a ... ball. She believed him to be snobby a...

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... He soon becomes a "target" for women that are looking for a perfect husband. The reaction of Mrs. Bennet's urge desire to know Mr. Bingley and hope to wed her daughter to this mysterious gentleman, showed us how social status and wealth are often put before our actual personality ... what a fine thing for out girls." (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Page 5). Despite the fact that Mrs. Bennet hardly knows anything about Mr. Bingley but she is willing to arrange the marriage just to assure her daughter's social statues and financial stability. She does not concern about Bingley ... am mo...

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... other hand, Darcy takes a conservative attitude toward laughter. Everywhere in Pride and Prejudice, pompous gravity is laughed out of existence. In the absurdly formal utterances of a Mary Bennet or a Mr. Collins (neither of whom is ever known to laugh), Austen demonstrates that a total lack of humor has effects the reverse of what a situation demands. Yet another example is Mary's formulaic ... consolation."" The humor of these characters lies in their unawareness of the claims of spontaneity in certain situations. They can produce, instead, rote and "institutional- responses. In fact, ...

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In a sense, "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of two courtships - those between Darcy and Elizabeth and Bingley and Jane. Within this broad structure appear other, smaller courtships: Mr. Collins's aborted wooing of Elizabeth, followed by his successful wooing of Charlotte Lucas; Miss Bingley's unsuccessful attempt to attract Darcy; Wickham's pursuit first of Elizabeth, then of the never-seen ... playing the piano at the ball she embarrasses herself and her family. An example of someone doing something for their own personal happiness can be seen in the marriage of Mr and Mrs Bennet. Mr Be...

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... mother, wanting her daughters to marry a man just because he has money, but it is soon revealed that the Bennet's are rather poor and if Mr Bennet were to die they would loose the house and be left destitute. Therefore for the survival of the girls and their mother at least one of ... beautiful of all the Bennet girls; Bingley describes her as the most beautiful creature I ever beheld'. Everybody remarks on Jane's beauty and it is the first reason Mr. Bingley, the most sought after young man in the neighbourhood, is drawn towards her. Elizabeth is also a very beautiful woman, but not to...

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