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Kiss the Bride When one thinks of marriage, one thinks of two people coming together to celebrate the love they have for each other. However, in the early nineteenth century, there was a different idea of what marriage was really like. In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bennet engages in a battle of wits with the charming, yet snobbish, Mr. Darcy. In the beginning, they could not stand one another, but as the story went on, their affections for each other start to grow. However, before they were able to get together, Mr. Darcy had to swallow his pride and Elizabeth had to throw away her prejudice toward him. Once they were able to throw their pride and prejudice away, they were able to love each other without a shred of doubt, …show more content…

However, Charlotte was just doing what she has been taught. In Jennifer McClinton’s article, “Love in Pride and Prejudice,” she talks about how people believed that marriage was used to provide financial security and one's happiness was put second to that. Which is why Charlotte believed that ”marriage and financial security, not necessarily happiness or love, must be a woman's main goals when she has little fortune herself” …show more content…

Bennet as a person who views “herself a victim of others’ cruelty, constantly complaining that no one regards her ‘nerves" (Guggenheim). This fits Mrs. Bennet very well, especially after she hears about Charlotte accepting Mr. Collins proposal. After learning about the engagement, she became bitter and angry, she expressed to Mrs. Gardiner that “the Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbors who think of themselves before anybody else" (Austen 135). She’s angry at her neighbors because she saw the engagement as an attack on her personally. She believes that Charlotte only agree to the marriage was so that her family could rub it in Mrs. Bennet’s face that their daughter was married off before hers. Mrs. Bennet want Mr. Collins to marry Elizabeth so they could secure their family property and hated her neighbors for getting bragging rights over their daughter being married before any of the Bennet daughters were married. Mrs. Bennet was selfish for the sole purpose of having bragging rights over other families and for the chance of her daughters living comfortably in the future, showing that she saw marriage as a

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