Pride And Prejudice Critical Analysis

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“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents,” (Austen, 80). In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. and Mr. Bennet desperately wish for their five daughters – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia Bennet – to become married in the Regency period. Attending a ball, Jane mingles with Mr. Bingley, and Mr. Darcy arrogantly ignores Elizabeth. Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, and she rejects him like Logan got rejected in Zoey 101. He is ultimately engaged to Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth’s best friend. Elizabeth receives another marriage proposal, this time from Darcy, whom she also rejects. Later, Elizabeth travels to Darcy’s estate with her aunt and uncle, Mrs. and Mr. Gardiner, but only with assurance that Darcy will not be present. …show more content…

Elizabeth bolts home when she discovers that Lydia has eloped with Wickham; Darcy pays Wickham off, out of love for Elizabeth. Lady Catherine de Bourgh journeys to Longbourn to tell Elizabeth that her nephew, Darcy, plans to marry her. Lady Catherine hatefully demands Elizabeth to reject him, but Elizabeth’s strong-willed spirit does not care about Catherine’s wishes. Ultimately, Jane and Elizabeth are the only Bennet daughters who end up married over the course of a year. Even with Pride and Prejudice 's central focus on love and romance, Jane Austen challenges Regency Era parenting methods, since mothers abandoned being loving, patient maternal figures to be matchmakers for their daughters, considering the value that society places on effective marriages and family

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