develop an acquaintance with Mr Bingley. * She encourages the sick Jane to stay at Netherfield. * She is anxious that Elizabeth should consent to Mr Collins’ proposal and is crestfallen when she does not. * She promotes the flippancy of Lydia and Kitting and their redcoat chasing. Antagonist: Mrs Bennet’s antagonist is the problem she encounters in getting her daughter married‚ especially the eldest two. * Bingley’s abrupt departure from Netherfield interrupts her plans. * This
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grows more interested in Elizabeth‚ Elizabeth continues to despise him and is instead attracted to George Wickham‚ a handsome and personable militia officer. Wickham tells Elizabeth that his father worked for Darcy’s father and that he and Darcy grew up together. Stating that he was favored by Darcy’s father‚ Wickham claims that Darcy disobeyed his father’s bequest of a clergyman’s revenue to Wickham out of selfish resentment. Wickham’s tale makes Darcy appear not only proud but cruel‚ and Elizabeth accepts
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married with someone she love rather than money. Jane thinks the prerequisite of marriage is that they should love each other. The other one is Lydia and Wickham. Their marriage is based on a sudden impulse. Lydia is an extremely frivolous girl‚ she loves Wickham because of his good apprance. But Wickham is really a bad man ‚he eloped with Lydia that ruined her and all her sisters. Comparing with them‚ the love of Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy is elevater. And the marriage of Jane and Mr. Bingley
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lavishes praise on Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her daughter‚ a lovely young lady who will one day inherit the de Bourgh fortune. After the meal‚ he is asked to read to the girls‚ but he refuses to read a novel and reads from a book of sermons instead. Lydia becomes so bored that she interrupts his reading with more gossip about the soldiers. Mr. Collins is offended and abandons the reading choosing to play backgammon with Mr. Bennet. Mr. Collins is in search of a wife and when Mrs. Bennet hints that Jane
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Pride & Prejudice Jane Austin‚ the author of Pride & Prejudice‚ was born December 16‚ 1775. She was one of five children to her parents George and Cassandra Austen. Austin was very close to her only sister Cassandra and the correspondence between the two was abundant‚ although many of the letters were discarded after Austin’s death. Cassandra is also responsible for the only unquestioned drawing that we have of Austin. Austin received her education from two family members in Oxford then in Southampton
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Max Railing Mr. Shanahan British Literature Honors December 11‚ 2012 Social class within Pride and Prejudice plays a key role throughout the novel. Social class not only determines where one is placed in the class structure‚ but also the amount of land‚ money‚ and potential suitor candidates. Where one is placed within the social hierarchy is based on what one does for a living and their social status as well. For instance‚ Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are considered ‘landed gentry‚’ meaning they do
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respectful marriage whereas Mrs. Bennet values a marriage which concerns wealth and social status. Their aspirations for Lydia‚ Jane‚ Mary‚ Kitty and Elizabeth mirror their conflicting ideologies. Mr. Bennet seems to have a quiet deep love for his daughters while‚ on the contrary‚ Mrs. Bennets love is over-acted. Both parents help to shape their daughters characteristics and beliefs Lydia reflecting Mrs. Bennets flighty and excessive behavior while Elizabeth inherits Mr. Bennets pensive and reflective
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which she declines as she still thinks of him as proud and ignorant. However‚ she soon finds that she has fallen in love with Darcy when she hears about all the wonderful things he has done for her family‚ for example uniting Lydia (one of Elizabeth’s sisters) and Mr Wickham ant great expense to himself. Darcy’s aunt comes to the Bennet’s house and warns Elizabeth off Darcy as she is not good enough for him and then proceeds to ban Elizabeth from ever accepting a proposal from Darcy which Elizabeth
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meant that Jane‚ Lydia and Elizabeth had to wait on their proposals in eager fashion. Jane Austen also did this to highlight how helpless and incapable women were thought to be during this time. That a man was the only way a woman could ever be seen in society as accepted. “Imprudent as a marriage between Mr. Wickham and our poor Lydia” (pg 161). Marriage wasn’t always looked at appropriately. When Lydia eloped with Mr. Wickham it had everyone’s heads turning wondering what Lydia
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Gender role is one of the typical topics that literature has described all time‚ from 8th century Old English literature like “Beowulf” (translated version by Seamus Heaney) to 18th century modern English literature like” Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Both authors are precise and sharp observers of the society’s gender stereotype at their times; and they were able to denounce that practice in their fiction stories by the reconstruction of the whole society with all types of character in their
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