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Pride and Prejudice (Characters: (Lady Catherine- Mr. Collins works for…
Pride and Prejudice
Characters:
Lady Catherine- Mr. Collins works for her. She is the aunt of Mr. Darcy, and doesn't really like Elizabeth.
Charlotte Lucas- Married Mr. Collins "just to be married", believes marriage is for safety and no really for love, she is also a foil for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Bennet- the protagonist or main character, is prejudice at the beginning transforms at the end, she believes you should marry a person for love, marries Darcy at the end despite the many conflicts and obstacles.
Jane Bennet- Elizabeth's closest sister, the prettiest, believes the world is good, eventually marries Mr. Bingley, is her mother's favorite child.
Mr. Bennet- his favorite daughter is Lizzy, very sarcastic especially with his wife, pretty quiet and doesn't really care for much, married to Mrs. Bennet.
Mrs. Bennet- very chatty and is very boy-crazy, she is obsessed with getting all 5 daughters married, always ruins things for her daughters because of her immaturity and noisiness, wife of Mr. Bennet.
Mary Bingley- she is very quiet, tends to keep her introverted life with her books, not caught up in boys, the quietest daughter, blends in
Mr. Darcy- another one of the main characters, his personality is very unsociable, it interpreted as "prideful" at the beginning, he is very prejudiced has mixed views, very wealthy, he ends up marrying Elizabeth after many conflicts.
Mr. Collins- he is the nephew of Lady Catherine, has a good deal of money, very creepy, thinks he knows everything about women, was rejected by Elizabeth and desperately married Charlotte Lucas.
Lydia Bennet- the youngest of 5 daughters, has a annoying personality like her mother, obsessed with men, ran off and almost eloped with Mr. Wickham and ended up marrying him.
Colonial Fitzwilliam- Colonel Fizwilliam is the one that tells Lizzy not to believe all the prejudices and that Mr. Darcy would never have done that, he tells the truth to her.
Mrs. Gardiner- she becomes a close friend with Lizzy when she takes her to see Mr. Collins really to see Mr. Darcy and make up, her husband Mr. Gardiner helps the Bennets pay for Lydia and Wickham.
Themes:
Role of Women
The success of women at the time was really defined if you were married or not because you were considered "weird" if you didn't. Success of women was also defined if you married a wealthy person, that was the only way you could move up the social class.
The education of the time was much different then it is now days. Women were only educated on singing, drawing, sewing, painting, and artsy things like that. The only way they could learn about the four main subjects would be books.
She develops marriage in three different ways with Mr. Darcy, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Collins. She displays marrying just for the money with Mr. Wickham. She portrays getting married just to fit in with Mr. Collins. She also presents her main point with Mr. Darcy which is marrying somebody because of love.
Social Expectations
There was the wealthy social class which was very good to be in because it was easier to get married because most people excepted you, like Mr. Darcy. There also was the poor class that had lower connections which made it more hard to marry, like Elizabeth.
There was a big impact if you decided to marry out of your class. People in this period didn't really like if you married out of your class, so it was harder. Also, if you eloped your family name would be destroyed. The impact of marriages effect families in big ways with prejudices.
Marriage
Proposals were a lot more proper than they are today. You could propose to your cousin and it wouldn't be illegal. You could even walk up to a person you didn't really know that well and propose to them. The only regulation was that you had to ask permission from their dad to get there hand in marriage.
Specific relationships/marriages would form different prejudices about them in their society. It could make your family a good name or a bad name. Relationships didn't really last that long until people would get married, they were very rushed.
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