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 for the .
young girls are starting to look bleak. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth but she refuses, .
saying that she still thinks of his as arrogant and unpleasant. Darcy leaves her but .
delivers a letter to her. The letter causes Elizabeth to rethink her feelings on Darcy. .
Mr. Bingly proposes to Jane. Darcy and Elizabeth go for a walk, Darcy tells .
Elizabeth about how his feelings have not changed and she accepts his proposal.
"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were .
last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one .
word from you will silence me on this subject forever." (Prejudice, ch. 58).
Throughout the novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, each .
family as well as society puts enormous emphasis on marriage, and love. Sense and .
Sensibility addresses the romantic problems of two sisters. Elinor who is in love .
with a man who is engaged to an ignorant, manipulative women, and Marianne .
who is infatuated with a man who suddenly ended their relationship. "We will .
make extract on the subject of love, and then readers will have a pretty good idea .
of what is wanting in the person and sentiments of a lover to please such a .
romantic enthusiast such as Marianne Dashwood " (critical review, 89). Both .
characters manage to find love in a society that limits communication to .
conversations about roads and weather. This is a society were people are taught .
and expected to be impersonal.Marianne who is sixteen-years old is governed by .
her feelings not by her reason, unlike Elinor. Marianne says about love " To love is .
to burn". In Pride and Prejudice getting married is a top priority for almost every .
