Bingley's attentions toward Jane, and makes known to everyone she knows that she expects much more to come of their relationship. ... When Elizabeth makes it clear that she will not under any circumstances marry him, he winds up proposing to and marrying Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth's friend who believed that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" (Austen 16). ... She is a bossy woman who considers it her duty and right to look into other's affairs and tell them how to manage their lives. ... She tells Elizabeth "I know it must be a scandalous falsehood" (Austen 23...

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• Grade Level: High School

She thinks that her children should all be like her daughter, Lydia, flighty and over flirting, to secure themselves easy men. ... Elizabeth was first offered marriage from Collins, who she duly rejected thanks to her father's objection "Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do." ... Elizabeth on the other hand became nervous and embarrassed upon realising her own arrogance towards Darcy, and how she had been fooled by Wickham and that by rejecting and hating the person who was good and charming underneath had she actual...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dialogue employed between Emma in "If I were to marry, I must expect to repent it so" and Harriet Smith's surprised tone "it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!... " as she is pursuing a man of her choice. ... Cher's voiceover in "whenever a boy comes, you should always have something baking" and "don't sell yourself short now", ironically describes the domestic and objectified figure ascribed to women in the 18th Century. ... Diegetic sounds created by the horns in the freeway scene and Dionne's panicked tone in "What do I do Mur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She believes that if a woman's main purpose to attract a husband, she should not conceal her feelings regardless of the fact if he loves her or not. She also tells Elizabeth that 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. ... "It is better to know little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." ... Collins before her marriage but she marries him anyway because of his good status in the society. ...

• Word Count: 1036
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School