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Pride and Prejudice (characters (Mrs. Bennet: Mrs. Bennet sticks to the…
Pride and Prejudice
characters
Mrs. Bennet: Mrs. Bennet sticks to the modern idea of marraige and is doing everything she can to get her daughters married as soon as possible. She is very dense during the book and does not get her husbands sarcasm at all.
Mr. Bennet: Mr. Bennet is very sarcatic during the whole book, especially to his wife, and is very loving for his daughters, especially Elizabeth.
Mr. Darcy: Mr. Darcy is very rich and mature and although he can be a bit of a jerk sometimes he is very generous when he pays Mr. Wickham to marry Lyida. Elizabeth is very difficult with him but ends up marrying him in the end.
Elizabeth: Elizabeth is the second oldest Bennet daughter and is known as the smart one. She is very particular for who she wants to marry and after saying no to Collins she ends up falling in love with Mr. Darcy.
Jane: Jane is the oldest daughter and is very mature. She is known as the pretty one and Bingley ends up proposing to her.
Wickham: Wickham only married Lydia because he was given money in order to do so. He is the type of character that is a money digger and gambles away everything he has.
Mr. Collins: Mr Collins believes that marriage should be used to suit ones needs in life and does not believe in love. He proposed to Lizzy and when she refused, shortly after got engaged with her best friend Charlotte.
Themes
Pride
The Bennets were ashamed of Lydia running of with Wickham and since they are very prideful of their reputation were very embarrassed and would do anything to have Wickham marry her as to not hurt their reputation
At one point Elizabeth was acting very prideful because she though that Mr. Darcy not talking to her was because he was to prideful to speak to her but by thinking that she actually is the one being prideful
Marraige
Austen uses the characters Elizabeth and Darcy to symbolize the people who are marrying for love. Elizabeth refused to marry anyone unless she had feelings for them and Darcy obviously loves Elizabeth so Austen symbolized marriage for love in this example
Another idea was the one Mr. Collins and Charlotte showed where they were only marrying to be set for life and have a comfortable life, not necessarily because they are in love.
One idea of marriage is to marry for money which Austen adds in her story by creating Wickham who is only marrying Lydia for the money
Social Class
Social Class was something that was greatly considered during the time of marriage because someone of a higher class would not usually marry someone of a lower class because that was seem unfit to societies rules
Role of Women
Women in the Ninteenth century were expected to say yes to whomever proposed which is why Collins was surprised at first when Elizabeth refused his proposal.
Women also did not really have an education besides sewing and cooking but their abilities to do certain tasks would attract men of different social levels
Literary Devices
Satire
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Mr . Collins insulted Elizabeth in a way when he proposed by thinking it was dumb of her to refuse her proposal
Irony
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The way the Bingley sisters are rude to Elizabeth and mock her all the time to try to get Darcy to dislike her but their plan backfires