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Passion Vs Reason

            In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen displays relationships based on passion, through the marriage of Lydia Bennett to Mr. Wickham and on reason through the marriage of Elizabeth Bennett to Mr. Darcy. Lydia's marriage to Wickham is very sudden and based totally out of passion, lacking thought and reason. In contrast to this, Elizabeth's marriage to Darcy spans over many months and is almost too thought out. .
             When Lydia and Wickham wed they had barely had time to get to know each other and ran away together so that no one could reason with them about the situation. This fits Lydia's character very justly. Since the beginning of the novel Lydia has become very passionate about anything she deems worthy of her affection. When the soldiers first came to town she and her sister would frequently visit them to try and win their affections. This became very important to her and would constantly be thinking of the situation of the soldiers in the nearby town. Later in the novel she falls for one particular soldier, Mr. Wickham. She becomes so impassioned with him that she completely disregards the consequences of their new love and elopes with him, leaving her family to be embarrassed in front of the entire town. .
             Wickham is also very passionate and lets his passions run every part of his life. Wickham has two main passions in life, gambling and himself. His love for gambling gets him into trouble throughout the course of the novel. He is at one point indebted for over a thousand pounds and uses Mr. Darcy as a way to get money to repay the debts. Even though Darcy helps him in this situation Wickham is so concerned with himself that when he first meets Elizabeth he immediately commends himself to her by telling stories of his acquaintance to Darcy and lying so that Darcy looks like the villain. It is also rumored that Wickham wishes to marry Mary King simply because she had recently inherited a large sum of money.


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