Pride and Prejudice demonstrate the life people lived in and the late 18th and the early 19 centuries. To compare the lifestyle of then and now are the polar opposites especially when it comes to marriage. Back then marriage was called a business. The wife will try to match up someone with their daughter(s) so they can get married immediately. You don’t get married for the love, you get married so you have a secure place to be once your father dies. Once the father dies his Children is left with nothing, unless the father has a son. It is very important that the father daughter(s) gets married so she doesn’t end up on the street with no home or some kind of income. Unfortunately, in Pride and Prejudice Mr. Bennet doesn’t have any sons but
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Bennet and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, there role in the book has a lot of similarity and difference. Before comparing and contrast the two roles you need to know what is Catherine de Bourgh role that’s plays in the book. Catherine de Bourgh is a person you will describe as intimidating. She is a person who always seems to get her way and doesn’t like when someone is disagreeing with her. Her mission is to get Mr. Darcy to marry her daughter. With knowing that Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth are heard to be engaged, it might get very disturbing based on the perception of lady Catherine de Bourgh. “Miss Bennet I am shocked and astonished. I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance I require” (272). This statement toward Elizabeth seems to be taking as Elizabeth should be intimidated by Catherine de Bourgh, but that does not seem to make Elizabeth intimidated at …show more content…
Bennet and Mrs. Bennet have a little of a comparison and a very big of a difference. The only thing that they have in common is making sure they daughter marry someone who is rich. They both know what can happen if they all don’t marry anyone. The difference between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet is that Mrs. Bennet has an interest in all the girls to be married. Mr. Bennet agrees with her, but his first and only priority is Elizabeth. For example : “They have none of them much to recommend them, ' ' replied he; ``they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.” (2).
The roles of theses three character reveal about the “business” of marriage in the late eightieth and early ninetieth centuries is that you must be sure that your are secure. You need to know that once your father dies that you won 't have the estate or income that you once had. For example, this statement made by Mrs. Bennet shows how her girls will be secure if married rich “"Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls”
Bennet and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, there role in the book has a lot of similarity and difference. Before comparing and contrast the two roles you need to know what is Catherine de Bourgh role that’s plays in the book. Catherine de Bourgh is a person you will describe as intimidating. She is a person who always seems to get her way and doesn’t like when someone is disagreeing with her. Her mission is to get Mr. Darcy to marry her daughter. With knowing that Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth are heard to be engaged, it might get very disturbing based on the perception of lady Catherine de Bourgh. “Miss Bennet I am shocked and astonished. I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance I require” (272). This statement toward Elizabeth seems to be taking as Elizabeth should be intimidated by Catherine de Bourgh, but that does not seem to make Elizabeth intimidated at …show more content…
Bennet and Mrs. Bennet have a little of a comparison and a very big of a difference. The only thing that they have in common is making sure they daughter marry someone who is rich. They both know what can happen if they all don’t marry anyone. The difference between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet is that Mrs. Bennet has an interest in all the girls to be married. Mr. Bennet agrees with her, but his first and only priority is Elizabeth. For example : “They have none of them much to recommend them, ' ' replied he; ``they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.” (2).
The roles of theses three character reveal about the “business” of marriage in the late eightieth and early ninetieth centuries is that you must be sure that your are secure. You need to know that once your father dies that you won 't have the estate or income that you once had. For example, this statement made by Mrs. Bennet shows how her girls will be secure if married rich “"Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls”