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ecline and insecurity of her social position. To her, it is very important to maintain the class hierarchy that she wants to use the marriage of Darcy to help maintain the position. Lady Catherine represents class snobbery, especially in her attempts to drive away Elizabeth who is in the middle-class away from her nephew Darcy.

Darcy
Darcy, a key character in the novel is the very wealthy master of Pemberley whose father is untitled but mother is. His position in the social hierarchy is around the same with Lady Catherine that him marrying someone from lower class is far from the expectations of his class. In the novel he also shows some poor behavior that comes from the tradition in his class. His pride and class-consciousness causes him to look down on those who are under his social level.

Bingleys
Bingley, also as one of the wealthy families has bought his way into aristocracy. He himself is satisfied with such a position and a extremely wealthy father as well as a friend like Darcy. What he wants is just to have a good time and does not hope or expect for anything more that he has no motivation what so ever. Miss Bingley is the snobbish sister of Mr. Bingley and as the opposite of her brother who is careless of class differences; she inordinately disdains Elizabeth for her middle-class background. But his sister is worth ￡20,000 herself yet she still wants her brother to buy an estate and she also wants to marry Darcy to rise to higher position of the hierarchy.

The Bennets
Elizabeth Bennet, the center of the novel whose father Mr. Bennet is a gentleman farmer as well as a landed aristocrat who married a daughter of a local lawyer. Although Mr. Bennet is a landed aristocrat but Mrs. Bennetʼs middle class origins and relations brings the social positions of the whole family down. It is the class position of the family and Elizabeth that caused difficulties for Elizabeth to marry a wealthy aristocrat like Darcy.

The Lucases
The Lucases are at a comparable level of the social hierarchy with the Bennets and they are also close friends with each other. Sir William Lucas used to be a former Mayer and businessman but he got knighted and quite his business and started living as an aristocrat even though he does not actually have a lot of money. He is absolutely satisfied with his title and similarly to Bingley, he only wants to socialize and please people and hope for nothing much. He displays his title to Catherine when he met her at the dance and offered to introduce her at St. James’ Court. However Caroline got offended by it and disliked his arrogance which was out of his expectation and here the obvious differences and gaps between different social classes and are clearly shown.

Mr. Collins
Mr. Collins is at a slightly lower level than the Lucases. He is the son of Bennet’s younger brother and he symbolizes the lowest level of aristocracy. Collins has received some formal education but he does not really have money and had to work for a living until he married one of the daughters of Bennet. By marrying one of Bennet’s daughters he inherits the estate of Bennet. Acquired some education but no money, though he will one day inherit Bennetʼs estate. His own social status isn’t too much to be proud of but he tends to be happy to let everyone