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ong his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place." (Jane Austen 95) How rapacious and pompous he is! To acquire the wealth as well as a wife! What a ridiculous idea of his marriage conception it was! Having been refused by Elizabeth, he quickly marries Charlotte. "In as short time as Mr Collins' long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both." (Mordecai Marcus 274) We can see from here that his love to Charlotte was by no means sincere and genuine. To Collins, Charlotte was the only choice he could make. He was the very man who was incapable of normal personal feelings. His whole character has been absorbed by his social mask, and he relates only his social self to other social surfaces. Thus Collins did not exactly capitulate to social claims, for he never recognized personal claims, and he was blind to the fact that his own personal claims were distorted social claims. A brief analysis of his combination of arrogance and servility will explain this distortion. Collins valued only social power, and so he sought security by cringing before his superiors. To his potential inferiors he was arrogant and rude, which behavior expressed anger at those who would not recognize his social power and vindincative compensation for his cring. As long as a wife could be settled, it doesn't matter whether it was CharlotteorElizabethoranyone else. Charlotte seems to me is a mediocre and vain young lady. She accepted Collins solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment. Her mediocre perception and eagerness to get married prevent her from detecting Collins' pomposity and foolishness. We can also see her attitudes towards love and marriage from her words "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other,orever so similar before-hand, it doesn't advance their felicity in the least. They always contrive to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." (Jane Austen 110) That is her idea of marriage, which accounts for her quick marriage with Collins. Besides, Collins is the only alternative to penury and social isolation. Charlotte's letters about her married life to Elizabeth fully revealed her vain character. She (Charlotte) wrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing that she could not praise. The house, furniture, neighborhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behavior was most friendly and obliging. She knew that Elizabeth had looked down upon her for her choice, as no one could understand the strangeness of Mr. Collins' making two offers of marriage within three days and "any woman who marries Collins, a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man, can't have a proper way of thinking." (Jane Austen 110) Actually, she marries for the sake of marriage but she pretends to be happy. Charlotte is pitiable and Collins is contemptible. "Their marriage presents a complete abandonment of personal claims in favor of social claims." (Mordecai Marcus 275) The combination of dissolute Wickhame and empty-minded Lydia results in a sex-oriented marriage. Wickhame first appears us as a very charming fellow. But his character , on the contrary, was mean and wicked