Compare And Contrast Elizabeth And The Bennet Sisters

In 1813, a woman’s main goal was marriage. Females wanted to find a man who could provide for them and take care of them; not all women wanted love. Many were fine with living on a wealthy estate and living in an upper-class manner. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel about the Bennet sisters, five girls whom, in the time of 1813, are all unmarried and are looking for husbands. The central conflict is based around two young women, the eldest of the five Bennet daughters, Jane and Elizabeth. The girls have their similarities and differences, and can be compared and contrasted in many ways; in terms of which is stronger at handling the pressure of relationships, context clues give a valid answer. What the reader must interpret for his

She is the most beautiful of all her sisters and is a very sweet girl. If not for her kind personality, her character would be rather boring, seen as more of a dramatic individual who is irritating and hard to root for. She sees the best in people, too the point of naivety; this is precisely her problem. While it is a flattering trait of hers, Jane is actually quite oblivious to the real qualities of many of the people she encounters. As Elizabeth says, “she never sees a fault in anyone”. For example, up through the first thirty chapters of the book, Jane is the only one who refuses to believe that Mr. Darcy is a self-entitled, high standard wanting, elitist fiend. She insists that he is a good man who has deeper qualities than anyone cares to admit. Meanwhile, Darcy says that she “smiles to much”. Another example of her naivety is when she finally accepts that Miss Bingley is trying to separate her from Mr. Bingley, as insisted by Elizabeth. Upon reflection of the matter, she states, "I do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again". She even admits it! She is sweet, but she is a little blind. Her sister Elizabeth, on the other hand, is much more witty. She is beautiful, kind, smart, and not so oblivious. Of the sisters, she is the most sensible and

They both fully support and love one another, and help each other often. They talk to each other a lot, and when comforting is needed, they are there for each other. When it comes to handling the pressures of relationships, Elizabeth very obviously handles things better than Jane. The two are both on a conquest for love, yes, but they handle it very differently. When Jane thinks that she has found the man she loves, she goes after him (not in a creepy or strange way, just in a manner to keep him interested in her) and the two seem to be very happy with each other for a time in the story. Jane is falling fast for Bingley, and she firmly believes that he thinks the same of her. That’s why when he and his family leave for London, she really doesn’t understand…and neither does Elizabeth. This is where Jane’s naivety really come to hurt her: she believes what Miss Bingley tells her through letters, even though Bingley is vain and deceitful. Elizabeth calls out that this whole situation doesn’t make any sense, and claims that Bingley couldn’t have just completely lost interest in Jane all of a sudden. The pressure put onto the girls by their mother doesn’t help at all, and really makes things worse. She is overbearing and her only goal is to get all of her daughters married. Often when she does this, she looks like a fool in public, embarrassing her children