Comparing Collins In Pride And Prejudice

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Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth Bennet's best friend, is a sensible and insightful lady. He marries the Bennets’ cousin, William Collins, just to ensure her future because she doesn't wish to turn into an old maid and he is the first man to demonstrate an enthusiasm for marrying her. The view that Charlotte advances in Chapter six was a typical opinion. A lot of middle class woman who were frequently not sent to school thus didn't typically take in an ability that they could use to support themselves in the future. Thus, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, a woman without a husband or a man to depend on is powerless (apposition). Charlotte exploits her circumstance to wed only for money furthermore not for adoration. Charlotte …show more content…

I myself thought this way, when I thought that Charlotte ends up marrying Collins “because she isn’t young, pretty, or rich,” regardless of the way that she's “a sensible, intelligent person.” But that is really to misquote, or converse, Charlotte's circumstance. It's surely genuine that she isn't young, pretty, or rich. And that those realities set the stage for her marriage. But at the same time it’s actual that Charlotte marries Collins in light of the fact that she is sensible and intelligent. It's really her sensibleness that provides for her no decision but to do it (syllepsis). What truly urges her to marry him is her …show more content…

I have a broken family because of the lack of financial stability. If only my parents were financially stable enough to support us, my mom wouldn’t have to work abroad and get constrained by my second grandparents to marry another man to get a green card. At the very first place, I wished my mom got to be sufficiently smart to settle on a choice like what Charlotte did. Not that I would rather have an alternate father in light of the fact that still I am exceptionally appreciative to have a father like him. I simply thought life would be great for my family if my parents were able to make smart choices. Smart choices that would’ve prevented them to get an annulment (anadiplosis). This is the reason why I truly comprehend and regard Charlotte of her choice. Although she may want to marry the person she truly loves, she is one that does not demonstrate her pride as a woman for her own purpose. She's clever enough to realize that marrying for affection in her position is quite impossible. As long as she and Collins have imparted objectives, have similarity, and have mutual respect (asyndeton) for one another as spouses, that is what's important. Financial security overrides their absence of sentimental

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