Elizabeth Bennet

two polar opposite personalities are those of Mrs. Bennet and her daughter Elizabeth Bennet. Mrs. Bennet represents everything society pushes women to be. She is consumed by the world of keeping up appearances, and lives to further the social statuses of her kin. Mrs. Bennet, though very much a caricature of social pressures, establishes the weight of the situation and the consequent excommunication that can come from poor decision-making. The…

that a person is interested in because they did not have telephones or lived near each other. Thus lead to young men and women attending balls such as Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet. Within a short amount of time, Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet, who were from the middle class, married each other. Social status plays a considerable part in the novel, Elizabeth has many conflicts of being able to marry Darcy because of their different social status. They were able to pass those criticisms and marry each…

the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their five unmarried daughters, but the Novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the five daughters of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them married as she was their mother. The family itself is not as rich as those they interact with because they have no son, five daughters. Mrs. Bennet, she is concerned with finding suitable husbands for her five daughters that’s her task. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter,…

desperate for wives and mocks the fact that they married out of convenience and there seems to be irony in her tone. She uses the Bennet family in the novel to portray the various attitudes towards marriage. Jane Austen flags the fact that this society did not see love as a vital thing in marriage and marriage was done mostly upon the assurance of a stable income. Elizabeth is…

Bennet actually has a good judge of character. When she first encountered Mr. Darcy, she was in fact repulsed by his pride(who wasn’t?) However where she errs is that she was so blinded by her judging him at first sight that she failed to see how happy he made Elizabeth later in the novel. The most disgusting instance she has is when her true shallowness of mind is revealed. For example, when she apologizes to Elizabeth that she “should be forced to have that…

a certain level of both pride and prejudice. Elizabeth, Darcy, Miss Bingley, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Collins are all characters who possess these two traits to varying degrees. Even though Elizabeth and Darcy, the two central characters in the novel, are plagued with pride and prejudice, there are others who also hold these two character flaws. In the beginning of the novel, Austen introduces Mr. Collins, a cousin of the Bennets, who is coming to visit Longbourn; Mr.…

prejudice, but also revolves around gossiping in characters like the women of the town, the mother of Elizabeth, Mrs. Bennet, and the sister of Mr. Bingley, Caroline. Austen employs irony to critique the weak aspect of social interactions to spread news without validity, share with others…

decently; in the Bennet household, marriage is held as the uttermost goal by the lady of the house, if not her husband. And Mr. Bennet, if he has any true qualms about Lydia's behavior, does nothing to stop it. When Elizabeth confronts him later in the novel about his cultivation of Lydia's alleged frivolity by allowing her to go to Brighton, Mr. Bennet brushes her concerns off by saying, "Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other" (Austen 158).…

relationships of five couples: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas, Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennet, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Wickham and Lydia Bennet. All of these relationships begin and progress differently and develop under a variety of motivations and circumstances. By the end of the novel, it becomes obvious that many of the relationships either exhibit similar qualities or blatantly contrast each other. The marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet appears distant,…

parents approval. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet were part of this societys norm at the time of encouraging their daughters to marry into wealth and for their inheritance to be well taken care of. The married couple overall represents a happy couple with basic roles as the “breadwinner” and the “homemaker”. Mr. Bennet tends to the farm outside while Mrs. Bennet cares for the children and keeps the house tidy. Their attitude towards…