But the willful disregard Mrs. Bennet shows to the sensibility and decorum most of her compatriots value so highly is not her weakness but in fact her greatest strength. The woman has one abiding goal through the novel: to see all her daughters married and thus financially secure. Through the homogenizing fog of history, her obsession sometimes feels ridiculous—but when the options are marriage or destitution, and when you live in the countryside where well-bred men are scarce, and when at least two of your daughters are already past prime marriageable age, panic is understandable.
Love is lovely, but Mrs. Unlike the rest of the family, prattling about feelings and manners and values and wit yes, I mean you, Lizzie , she takes the plight of her children seriously, and she works tirelessly to ensure their futures. Collins, and at every chance throwing Lydia and Kitty toward an endless parade of military officers.
Not all of her efforts are successful, to be sure, but marriage is a numbers game, and the Bennet matriarch is the sole, the necessary pragmatist in a house filled with idle dreamers.
Bennet rails against the confines of the misogynistic society she inhabits. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favor of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
Jane and Lizzie are far from oblivious to their perilous situation. They know they must marry before they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home by the combined powers of tradition and the aforementioned aggressively dull male cousin.
They know that, in their early twenties, their eligible years are coming to a close. But they neither rebel against the injustice nor actively seek to nullify it. Neither is bitter about the entail; it is an unavoidable consequence of fate. She is immensely pretty and just as shy. She has great skill at playing the pianoforte. Ace your assignments with our guide to Pride and Prejudice! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
Bennet Mrs. Bennet Lydia Bennet Charlotte Lucas. Why does Charlotte Lucas marry Mr. Why is Lizzy Mr. Why does Darcy dislike Wickham? Why does Lizzy form a negative first impression of Darcy? According to Mr. What role do letters play in the novel? What is revealed about the characters after Elizabeth rejects Mr. How is the novel a critique of the social norms of its time?
How are Mr. Bennet different? What is entailment, and what role does it play in the novel? Though Mr. Darcy meets her challenge, the two are still as tense with each other as before. At dinner, Elizabeth is embarrassed by the inelegant and uncouth behaviour of her mother, her younger sisters, and Mr.
The following day, Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, but she flatly rejects him. Collins withdraws his proposal, and soon after gets engaged to Elizabeth's best friend, Charlotte Lucas. Bingley and his group suddenly quit Netherfield, and suspects that his sisters and Mr. Darcy are trying to get him away from Jane.
Wickham, enjoying his company. Elizabeth visits Charlotte and Mr. Collins' patroness and Mr. Darcy's aunt. Darcy also comes to his aunt's home of Rosings Park , along with his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam. While out on a walk, Elizabeth comes across Colonel Fitzwilliam, who shares that Mr. Darcy talked Mr. Bingley out of marrying her sister Jane. Upset by the news, she stays at Hunsford when Charlotte and Mr. Collins head to dinner at Rosings.
Darcy comes by Hunsford, looking for her, and eventually admits that he's in love with her and wishes to marry her, despite their differences in wealth and status. Elizabeth, both insulted and shocked, rejects his proposal. When Mr. Darcy asks why, she brings up his actions against both Jane and Wickham.
Finally, on his complaint of her apparent bitterness, she replies that the arrogant way by which he proposed prevented her from feeling concerns for him she "might have felt Darcy leaves, and Elizabeth is reeling from the encounter. The next day, Elizabeth is out on a walk when she encounters Mr. Darcy, who hands her a letter before leaving. In the letter, Mr. Darcy explains his actions, saying that he believed Jane to be indifferent, and thought Bingley's affection was more than Jane's.
He also said that the Bennets lack any social decorum, except Elizabeth and Jane. Regarding Wickham, he reveals that he did give Wickham the living his father willed him, but Wickham refused it, and was instead given money, which he squandered.
Wickham then tried to elope with Darcy's sister, Georgiana , to gain her fortune when she was only fifteen. Darcy, as well as her own family's unscrupulous behaviour, she starts to change her opinion. Elizabeth realises Mr. Darcy was telling the truth, and she missed the signs of Wickham's true character because she was blinded by prejudice and her wounded pride. Lizzy returns to Longbourn soon after, and makes an effort to distance herself from Wickham.
She is indifferent and distant towards him, and is glad that she will probably never see him again. Elizabeth is distressed when her youngest sister Lydia , a renowned flirt, is invited to accompany the militia to Brighton, and tries to get her father to intervene. Bennet doesn't listen, and Lydia heads to Brighton. Soon after, her aunt and uncle, Mr. Gardiner , take Elizabeth on a summer trip around Derbyshire. They hope to visit Pemberley , Mr.
Darcy's estate, but Elizabeth is reluctant to go, not willing to face Mr. She agrees to go after finding out that the family is away for the summer. Darcy when he returns home, unannounced. Her surprise mounts again when he shows a great degree of hospitality and kindness to both her and her relations. He also asks to introduce her to his sister, which Elizabeth agrees to. Jane writes to Elizabeth, informing her that Lydia has eloped with Wickham. Elizabeth goes to inform Mr.
Gardiner, but encounters Mr. Darcy, and confides in him about Lydia. He consoles her before leaving, and Elizabeth believes she will never see him again. Gardiner leaves for London to help, and sends Mr. Bennet back to Longbourn. Lizzy laments having known Wickham's true nature and not revealing it. Lydia and her family are ruined forever. Bennet soon receives a letter from Mr. Gardiner, stating that Lydia and Wickham are not yet married, but will be soon if Mr. Bennet will agree to pay Wickham's creditors in Meryton.
Elizabeth is shocked when Mr. Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet realise that Wickham was probably bribed a substantial amount by Mr. Gardiner to marry Lydia. Darcy is now lost to her. After Lydia and Mr. Wickham are wed, they visit Longbourn, where Elizabeth remains civil, but distant from both. When Lydia brags about her marriage to Elizabeth, she lets it slip that Mr. Prologue to Canterbury Tales.
Pride and Prejudice. Lord of the Flies. Metaphysical Poetry. A Tale of Two Cities. Old Man and the Sea. The Rape of the Lock. What are the names of five Bennet sisters and how are they different from each others? Discuss Bennet family. Why Charlotte Lucas marries Mr.
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