... happiness is a matter of luck where it doesn't matter if the two people know each other. Her attitude toward marriage does justify when she is actually married to Mr. Collins. What she says to Elizabeth is actually her foreshadow of the future. "It is better to know little as possible of the defects ... periodically. Darcy has no relationship with Catherine de Bourgh because of her insulting behavior toward Elizabeth. On the other hand, the movie simply demonstrates the two couple getting married together and going off in their carriages. The movie derives from the novel which and descr...

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... Austen, 46). Her aggravation is one in which many women during that time were feeling. Jane Austen was different from many women because she never married. In her novel she satirizes the urgency of women to marry. In the nineteenth century, if women did not marry they were expected to ... poor households as well as very rich households. In 1830, Queen Victoria had to have her mother live with her in the palace, until she married Albert. No exceptions were made to any single class (Smith 58). Austen satirizes this concept when Charlotte Lucas is considered an old maid. Charlotte Lucas ......

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... why she needs to be changed. Another foolish woman that is also satired is Mrs. Bennet. She is infatuated with getting her daughters married. That is her only goal in life. She doesn't care about her daughters' happiness as long as they get married to someone who has a substantial about of money and property. This goal of hers almost cost one of her ... said, "You had better go on horseback, / because it seems likely to rain and you must stay all / night" (28 Austen). Her plan worked too well because instead of just getting a cold, Jane had a fever, and when Mrs. Bennet learned of this,...

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... example, the poor would marry other poor, and the noble would marry other noble. If a woman were middle 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 ... . It is obvious that property is strongly related to money and social standing. If Mr. Bennet had not owned as much property as he did, his daughters would not have married such high class gentlemen. Property also gave a man a good reputation. Mr. Bennet had ...

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... how the high class also makes fun of the poor when they see that someone of a lower statue is looking for a husband. While the drive of Austen story is getting the Bennet girls married, Austen incidentally examines marriage itself, and its effect on five different couples. She comments, through Elizabeth, on the ironic fact that the Bennet's must be happy over a marriage ... does not get through them. Marriage did not only involve two persons, it involved the whole family around them. In the novel, Elizabeth and most of her sisters end up getting married not so much because of money but...

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... sons, but parents, aunts, uncles and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. Though it is of course most in the interest of the daughter herself to get married, the interests of the own family can be important for the choice of husband and wife. It is not appropriate for the daughter to choose whoever she likes for her ... . Young women were thought of incapable of living their own lives, it seems, so the daughter stayed within the family til the day she got married and moved to her husband's estate. A woman who never got married could therefore expect a life in her parents'...

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... an example of caricature. She represents the ridiculous treatment of love and marriage in the Regency period. Her obsession with getting all of her five daughters married is illustrated in the quote, "The business of her life is to get her daughters married." She is a foolish and frivolous woman, with no concern for the moral or intellectual education of her daughters. Her sole ... aim is to see her daughters married and through her shallowness she is in unable to even perceive the shame in Lydia's behavior involving Mr Wickham and is absolutely delighted by the thought of her marrying....

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... Catherine has a private conversation with Elizabeth at the Bennet's home. Lady Catherine comes and asks if the rumors about she and Darcy getting married are true. Elizabeth denies this but Lady Catherine tries to make sure they never will get married by insulting her in every possible manner. She tells Elizabeth that she is from inferior birth, that it will ruin Darcy's reputation ... ...

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... between Darcy and Elizabeth was based on first impressions that were solely not true. Inside they loved each other, but Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice caused issues with them ever getting married. The pride that Darcy demonstrated was nothing compared to the first impressions on himself. The ladies though highly of Darcy, up until he began to speak. Austen writes, "The gentlemen ... ...

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... between Darcy and Elizabeth was based on first impressions that were solely not true. Inside they loved each other, but Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice caused issues with them ever getting married. The pride that Darcy demonstrated was nothing compared to the first impressions on himself. The ladies though highly of Darcy, up until he began to speak. Austen writes, "The gentlemen ... ...

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... between Darcy and Elizabeth was based on first impressions that were solely not true. Inside they loved each other, but Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice caused issues with them ever getting married. The pride that Darcy demonstrated was nothing compared to the first impressions on himself. The ladies though highly of Darcy, up until he began to speak. Austen writes, "The gentlemen ... ...

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