Mrs Bennet Flashcards
“if I can but see one of my daughters happy settled at netherfuled… I shall have nothing to wish for’ - Mrs Bennet
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“I am quite delighted with him. he is so excessively handsome’”- Mrs Bennet, about Bingley, ch3
juxtaposition
inteirgy, reputation
valuation in appearance
“he is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him” - Mrs Bennet about Darcy, ch5
irony
pride and prejudice
ironic on thesis that darcy has already taken an attraction to Elizabeth
“looking as unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us… provided she can have her own way’ - Mrs Bennet about Elizabeth and Jane, ch20
societal consensus, connotation ]
marriage, personal worth, social advancement, family, gender roles
it is though mr bennet and her ridicule of Jane about ;caring no more for us,… provided she can have her own way’ that austen exmempfleis the destructive nature of mrs benent, and her ultimately misaligned mannerism. however, it can also be viewed as founded, as mrs bennet, although expressing her opinion
“How rich and how great you will be! What jewels, what carriages you will have!”
- materialistic
“I have such tremblings, such flutterings all over me
- absurd
She thinks of Collins as a “remarkably clever, good kind of young man”
foolish
If Jane should die it “would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr Bingley”
foolish
“You have no compassion on my poor nerves”
emotionally unstable
“Uncertain temper”
emotionally unstable
“If I can but see… all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for”
focused on getting her daughter married
“Her business in life was to get her daughters married”
‘The business of her life was to get her daughters married.’
focused on her getting
“She had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration of health would probably remove her from Netherfield”
Mrs Bennet - irresponsible parent
Once Elizabeth is engaged to Mr Darcy, she becomes “[her] dearest child” - an absurd change but a comic one
Mrs Bennet - well intentioned
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ - embodiment in Mrs B.
“You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“The business of her life was to get her daughters married.” - Mrs Bennet, ch1
- Transactional attitude to marriage, reflects Role of Women - their purpose is to get married
“A single man of large fortune, four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” - Mrs Bennet, ch1
- Attitudes to Marriage: For financial security, very materialistic and also displays the importance of money when women look for suitors. Money is essential when choosing a partner
“…a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.” - about Mrs Bennet, ch1
- Description of Mrs B
“talking…freely, openly, and of nothing else but her expectation that Jane would soon be married to Mr Bingley” - Mrs Bennet, ch11
- Mannerless, openly proclaiming an uncertain event without any basis, telling Mrs Lucas of impeding marriage between J and B
“Mrs Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of.” - Mrs Bennet, ch25
- Mrs Gardiner is the listener, and Mrs B is inconsiderate,
“…complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody…Poor dear child!” - Mrs Bennet, ch47
- Refuses to believe Lydia could possibly be at fault for the elopement.
“And as for the wedding clothes…tell Lydia she shall have as much money as she chooses to buy them, after they are married.” - Mrs Bennet, ch47
- Impractical and does not get the impact of what is going on, fixated on clothes and underestimates power of money, offering Lydia money for an unconfirmed wedding,
“Who is to fight Wickham, and make him marry her, if he comes away?” - Mrs Bennet, ch48
- Comedy of Manners: As if Mr B would ever fight anyone!
“Oh! My sweetest Lizzy! How rich and how great you will be!…Such a charming man!” - Mrs Bennet, ch59
- Overcome prejudice so rapidly, showing power of money, and how a woman’s status can be elevated by a man’s defined by wealth
“weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early on in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her” - Mrs Bennet, ch42
- About the lack of love in their marriage, parallel to Lydia and Wickham’s, idea love and marriage mutually exclusive
“Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for us to go if you do not” - Mrs Bennet, ch1
- Only if head of family goes to pay respects, can the females, men wield the power (Manners)
“…Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy: for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.” - Mrs Bennet about Darcy, ch3
- Superlative, irony as they’re lower in status, hinders judgement and clouds reality as her prejudice makes her think D is horrible
“…deeply was she vexed to find her mother…talking…freely, openly and of nothing else but her expectation that Jane would soon be married to Mr Bingley.” - Elizabeth about Mrs Bennet, ch18
- Extremely rude to talk about such things when it’s unconfirmed, talking about J and B’s prospective marriage
“Lizzy, you must walk out with him again, that he may not be in Bingley’s way” - Mrs Benent, ch59
- Pushing them together, her ignorance that she’s helping D & E
“you take delight in vexing me” - Mrs Bennet, ch1
’ a week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her’ - narrator
chpt 22, mrs bennet rearing Elizabeth. longhorn
connotation
family, social advancement, personal worth
furthering mrs Bennett unite chaarcter as not neatly unfounded nor justifiable in her actions
