5/29/2023 0 Comments Mr bennet pride and prejudice![]() ![]() ![]() He allows his wife to think that he has no intention of paying that essential courtesy call on the newly-arrived Mr Bingley, a young, unmarried man with £5000 a year, without which Mrs Bennet will not be able to introduce her attractive daughters to him. He was an ‘odd mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice…’ He enjoys winding people up. ![]() ![]() He finds Mr Collins ‘as absurd as he had hoped and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance…’ And we laugh with him.īut there is a less admirable side to Mr Bennet, one which leads to a great deal of unhappiness for his elder daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, and near disaster for the flighty Lydia who runs off with the caddish (though handsome) Wickham.Īt the end of Chapter 1, Jane Austen sums up Mr Bennet’s character. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?’ We enjoy his irony with regard to the oleaginous Mr Collins: ‘It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. In every film or television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice I’ve seen (and I’ve seen many) Mr Bennet comes across as a sympathetic character a man we could like. ![]()
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