Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
In this coursework I will be writing about the different marriage
proposal that Elizabeth is offered by two completely different people.
From the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The three main
people I will be looking at are Mr Collins, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth
Bennet. Elizabeth gets a proposal from both Mr Collins and Mr Darcy
but the response she will be giving is not quite either men were
expecting. I will also have further explanations on how Jane Austen’s
use of language is in the proposals.
Mr Collins first set eyes on Jane the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bennet to
be his lawful wedded wife, but he soon finds out that she is going to
be engaged to Mr Bingley. Mr. Collin's attention then changed from
Jane to Elizabeth. He found her equal in, 'birth and beauty.' Mr.
Collins wanted to settle the argument between his father and Mr.
Bennet; he hoped to do this by marrying one of Mrs. Bennet's
daughters. Lady Catherine de Bourgh had influenced Mr. Collins into
marriage. She told him, 'Mr. Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like
you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewomen for my sake; and
for your own, let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought
up high, but able to make a small income go a good way.' Mr. Collins
thought Lizzy fitted Lady Catherine de Boughs advice, and he thought a
marriage would add very greatly to his happiness.
Mr. Collins proposed to Lizzy, he was calm and collected. He spoke
arrogantly, and what he said seemed well planned and rehearsed. He
informed her of all the reasons for marrying her, but not one of them
included or implied that he wished to marry her for love. This reason
was the most important to Lizzy and ...
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looks Lydia goes for Wickham because he’s in a soldiers suite, and
Wickham for Lydia because she’s a young lady. They ran away and done
something which is not expected from people of such high class. It did
happen at the time but mainly by working class people, it was not
often for it to be seen by people like Lydia and Wickham. This brought
shame upon the Bennet family and now Lydia and Wickham has to get
married, Lydia being a young and impractical girl does not know what
is going on, but Mr. Wickham now regrets getting married to Lydia
seeing as how dim-witted she is, likewise Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet.
Mr. Bennet is now stuck with her and spends most his time in the
library away from Mrs. Bennet and her annoying yelling and screaming.
Also Elizabeth and Jane getting a marriage proposal from people like
Bingley and Darcy was very unlikely.
One day he waited tables on a young man and his female companion. She was
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children will marry him. In fact, "the business of her life was to get her