Jane Austen 's Pride And Prejudice

The next day, the Bennet’s cousin and heir to their estate joins them for breakfast. Elizabeth views him as a prickly, awkward, conceited man who places great value on things which Elizabeth does not- for example, class rank. As breakfast ends, he asks for a private audience with Lizzy. The Bennets know that this could only mean one thing, and before Elizabeth has a chance to respond, Mrs. Bennet enthusiastically agrees. Lizzy begs her family to stay, crying that Mr. Collins “can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear” (100). However her mother ignores her pleas and orders everyone from the room. Mr. Collins launches into a lengthy proposal, which Elizabeth flat out turns down. Mr. Collins responds,

Pride and Prejudice is a book that has great meaning, if the tone is understood. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of upbringing, financial problems, morality, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Jane Austen points out the flaws in human society during this time period. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses the tone of satire; this includes oodles of sarcasm, denouncing, and irony, she uses these techniques of tone with not only the plot of the story but the characters as well.

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is a well-known classic. However, it was a radical work in Austen’s society, during the Regency period. In the romance novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses Mr. Collins to satirize marriage and relationships of the Regency period.

The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austin holds a lot of respectable jests and humors, and even goes so far as to include characters that embody her particular satire as to reflect her views more blatantly into the novel. There are multiple personalities that communicate her bitter thoughts on the concept of marriage and love throughout the 1800’s, and one of them in this novel is Mr. Collins, cousin of Elizabeth and inheritor of the Bennet’s estate. His clumsy sense of self-importance and his personal take on marriage is funny at best and puts the ideals of love during that time period into a ridiculous light.

Collins' arrogant and assertive tone in this passage displays his prideful character and his high perception of himself, which is established because of his expectations for Elizabeth to follow the social norms. Even though he hardly knows Elizabeth, Mr. Collins seems to believe that because Elizabeth is a young, unmarried young woman, she will be jumping for joy at the idea of marrying a wealthy man like himself. When he declares, "I am therefore by no means discouraged" (105), he is portraying how arrogant he is in his image and proposal. Even though she has clearly expressed her opinion and has kindly denied his offer, he still believes that she will be his wife. In his eyes, her rejection just makes him believe that she is trying to hide her feelings for him and gives him the chance to repeatedly propose to her until she admits her feelings for him. Since Mr. Collins is the man who is going to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate when Mr. Bennet dies, his engagement to Elizabeth would be beneficial to both her and her family, which is why Mr. Collins is so arrogant and confident with his proposal and is not discouraged by Elizabeth's rejection. Also, Mr. Collins reassures Elizabeth that sometimes, "the refusal is repeated a second, or even third time" (105). This illustrates his belief that Elizabeth is just pretending to be someone she is not and that once she comes to her senses and drops the act, she will agree to marry

Picture this: You are a woman living in late 1700s. You are expected to be presentable at all times, petticoats and all. Though you are still quite young, your search for a husband is not a task to be taken lightly. Swirling in your mind are the opinions of annoying sisters, overbearing mothers, and rude old women. Although you are by no means poor, your family’s connections are not the best, making you a somewhat unsuitable bride. Just when you are about to write off the idea of love altogether, you meet a man who is rude to you yet gentlemanly toward his family and close friends. Neither one of you admit that you find the other interesting because you can hardly admit it to yourselves. His affections grow more rapidly than yours, but you reject him because This is what the life of Elizabeth Bennet was like. Though her culture and geographical surroundings played a big part in Lizzy’s character, she is very unlike the ordinary woman of her time.

Pride and Prejudice portrays many central values that Weldon in Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen an epistolary attempts to put right in the readers mind. The values of the Female Experience, Marriage and social structure and class. Jane Austen portrays issues in some form or another through her characters, but it is through a reading of Weldon’s ‘letters to Alice’ that clarification of these issues is made more apparent. These intertextual connections that Weldon gives to the reader about Austen’s novel helps them understand Austen’s context, views of marriage and the structure and guidelines of the social system. Weldon encourages Alice to think of these themes in context of her own life, to explore the similarities and differences.

“Pride and Prejudice”, is a novel which explores the huge chasm between love and marriage in Georgian England. Jane Austen’s presentation of passion and matrimony reiterates the fact that marriage is a “business arrangement”. Austen uses irony to make fun of polite society in this satire and Austen also emphasizes the point that social hierarchy dictates whom you can marry. The pressures of men and women in Georgian England are revealed through her exploration of the aristocracy’s prejudice against the middle class society in which she lived. Finally uses comedy to expose hypocrisy

Collins’s proposal is amusing it is also serious since it contains the fallible expectations on women when they receive a marriage proposal. Elizabeth combats theses expectations on women in marriage and do not allow them to be contributing factors in her decision to accept or refuse a marriage proposal. Mr. Collins warns Elizabeth that if she does not marry accept his marriage proposal she may never marry since there is no guarantee she will ever receive a second marriage proposal. Elizabeth defies this a still refuses to marry Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins also mentions the idea that a woman should accept a marriage proposal if it comes from a person who is more well to do. Even though Mr. Collins is more well to do Elizabeth refuses to marry him. Finally, Elizabeth is sincere when she refuses Mr. Collins proposal even though it was believed by Mr. Collins and even her mother that a women is dishonest when she refuses a marriage

In this passage, Jane and Elizabeth are discussing the recent engagement of their friend Charlotte Lucas to their cousin, Mr. Collins. Elizabeth commences by asserting that there are few people who she thinks well of in this world due to the lack of sense that many people seem to actually have. Elizabeth is also very disgruntled by the fact that a person she had respect for, Charlotte, agreed to marry a “conceited, pompous” man like Mr. Collins and states that she has essentially lost respect for Charlotte. Jane, on the other hand, attempts to defend Charlotte’s “prudent, steady character” by reminding Elizabeth that Charlotte is from a large family and therefore it is necessary that she marry a man with a good fortune like Mr. Collins. Elizabeth

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by Jane Austen in the Regency Period of England. The book represents to the reader how females, marriage and social class were viewed at the time, as well as demonstrates Austen’s opinion on these matters in a somewhat satirical sense. The two marriage proposals in the book towards the lead female character, Elizabeth Bennet, are put forth by Mr Collins and Mr Darcy, both of whom exaggerate the social norms of the time; as women were not expected to marry for love, but for financial gain, the terms for both proposals are focused more on the gains of both the man and the woman rather than true feelings towards the affair. The ridiculed etiquette shows how Austen held the ‘rules’ of the time in low regard.

2. Mr. Bennet sees so much humor in Mr. Collins’s letter because the idea of Elizabeth and Darcy being together seems ludicrous to him. This distresses Elizabeth because she was hoping that the family would approve of Darcy.

Collins. The fiery anger that comes out of the Darcy proposal is contrasted to the mild disagreement between Elizabeth and Collins. The language Elizabeth used in both cases show how differently she takes the proposals. With Darcy, she holds the resentment he has towards the behavior of her family as well as their class differences as a large problem for their potential marriage. This is not the problem between Elizabeth and Collins. Both Collins and Darcy provide Elizabeth with wealth that would make her comfortable in a practical way (even though one is clearly better than the other in this manner). But the argument for Elizabeth against Mr. Collins is her heart. She doesn’t respect Collins in the way that she respects Darcy. Instead of using the word gratitude like Elizabeth does with Darcy, she responds “Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me. I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than to decline them” Elizabeth calls what she feels a “complement” and a “honor” but leaves out respect. If she had a respect for Collins she would feel more gratitude for his proposal but the way the conversation unfolds reveals Elizabeth’s problem. Collins stops himself before his “feelings run away from himself” to explain logically why they are getting married. And when Elizabeth informs him of her answer he does not accept her

In her personal life, after receiving a proposal from Mr. Bigg-Withers, although not having or showing affection towards him, accepted the proposal. However, the next day, she rejects. In the book, Mr. Darcy’s manners influence her to reject him. After she rejects him is when he starts to change his attitude and more suitable for Elizabeth’s needs. “It was a long time before she became at all reconciled to the idea of so unsuitable a match. The strangeness of Mr. Collins 's making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted” (Austen 120). During this scene, Elizabeth shows that she believes that love should be built on a foundation of love, trust, and respect for one another. Most women of the 1700s married for material comfort and solely for the respect of society. Jane Austen’s views reflect Elizabeth Bennett’s views in his book.

Elizabeth’s snobbish pride hinders her from understanding her friend Charlotte Lucas’s best interests in regard to her desire to marry Mr. Collins. Elizabeth “prides herself on being a perceptive “studier of character,” as Mr. Bingley calls her, but how well does she really know her very good friend Charlotte…” when she “responds with amazement and horror” upon hearing that Charlotte wants to marry a man who is “dull”, “pompous” and “physically unattractive”. Elizabeth’s excessive pride blinds her from recognizing that Charlotte is “not much interested in men and very much interested in marriage” (Moler, 26). Elizabeth could have ruined the prospects of Charlotte’s marriage because of her self-importance in the way she