Four different marriage Pride and Prejudice [2]
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cessful and popular masterpiece. This novel is peopled with characters of her own social class: The ladies and gentlemen of the landed gentry. The plot of this novel revolve around the intricacies of courtship and marriage between members of her class, which is great attraction to many readers. Deeply impressed by four different marriages in Pride and Prejudice, I made an analysis of those four types of marriages and came to an conclusion that one's character reflects hisorher marriage and their attitudes towards marriage. The four couples, varied in their characters, presented us with four different distinct marriages.
The first marriage presented before us is the marriage of Collins and Charlotte. Collins was a conceited and foolish young man. He would inherit the estate of Longbourn, the property of Mr. Bennet upon his death, which amounts to depriving five daughters of Mr. Bennet of everything. Therefore, the five daughters would have not enough money to support their life unless they are lucky enough to marry well-to-do husbands. Collins was vulgar and servile, seldom opens his mouth without mentioning his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Her "affability and condescension" (Jane Austen 58) is so impressive upon him that he felt greatly flattered only by "her visit in his humble parsonage".(Jane Austen 59)
Collins was pompous and narrow-minded man who never possess his own conception of love, he intends to get married merely because it was the particular advice and recommendation of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. To begin with, he made up his mind to marry one of the daughters of Mr. Bennet as a way of reconciliation with the Longbourn family. The beautiful Jane, undoubtedly, is his first choice. But when he was informed that Jane had been privately engaged, he swiftly change Jane to Elizabeth, who is "equally next to Jane in birth and beauty" (Jane Austen 62). No mutual acquaintance and love between each other. Marriage to Collins was only "a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances" and "advice from Lady Catherine de Bourgh" (Jane Austen 95). Jane Austen gave us a full statement of his background and character. "Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by educationorsociety. The greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father, and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up, had given him originally great humility of manner, but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feeling of early and unexpected prosperity." And "the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good option of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a rector made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility." (Jane Austen 61)
His character can be vividly reflected in his first proposal to Elizabeth and determines that his court was a failure. We are not surprised at his failure when we read his ridiculous proposal to Elizabeth: "But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honored father. I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from am
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