Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a romantic comedy full of lively characters and verbal banters. Mrs. Bennet has five daughters and a big problem. None of them are married! Mrs. Bennet, the burden of Longbourn, is a woman who desires to get her daughters married, but doesn’t realize she is the major deterrent to their suitors. Mrs. Bennet is a social misfit, an ineffectual mother whose judgments cannot be trusted. Her nonstop foolishness is one way that holds the plot together to a unified whole.

Mrs. Bennet lacks any awareness of her social grace and embarrasses Elizabeth and Jane to no extent. Her incorrigible behaviors depicts a woman who lacks education and the ability to think before she acts. What Mr. Darcy says, “She was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper,” tells us right off the bat that Mrs. Bennet is not one of the brightest or favorable characters in the book (Ch. 1). I share Mr. Darcy’s view of Mrs. Bennet. She is noisy, foolish, and vulgar. She lacks class and is embarrassing, but does not seem to notice. At the Netherfield ball, even Elizabeth sees her mother as an embarrassing figure, “When they sat down to supper, therefore, she considered it a most unlucky perverseness which placed them within one of each other, and deeply was she vexed to find that her mother was talking to that one person (Lady Lucas) freely, openly and of nothing else but her expectation that Jane would soon be married to Mr. Bingley…She concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no of it”(Ch18). Here, the audience sees Mrs. Bennet act immaturely. She does not stop at all to think of what other peopl...

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...nd is the reason why her daughters can’t get married; I was able to understand why she acts that way. We see her as an annoying and embarrassing person, but if we were in her shoes, we would get a totally different view. We would be able to see and understand all her worries; although she seems to always make bad decisions, her reasoning justifies it. Since she is afraid of losing everything, it would be logical to understand why she seems to make decisions without thinking. I mean, if we were the ones to lose everything, we would soon grow desperate and take any chances given that will let us keep what we have. For Mrs. Bennet, her desperateness results in taking any request of marriage offered to her daughters. I was able to learn that Mrs. Bennet acts according to her worries rather than her knowledge and thought process.

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