P&P #12: Ch. 7-9

“To know that her daughter would be married was enough. She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct” (296).

• While Mr. Bennet is extremely grieved by the incident of Lydia’s sudden act of irrational and irresponsible behavior, Mrs. Bennet is overjoyed at simply the fact that her daughter is getting married. Mrs. Bennet is blind to disobedience and whore-like behavior as long as marriage is the result. This clearly demonstrates that Mrs. Bennet has indeed, made her purpose, or obsession, in life to marry off her daughters regardless of how it may come about. She is careless in her means of raising her daughters because instead of reprimanding Lydia for her wrongdoing, she congratulates her. Mr. Bennet, acting extremely fair and reasonable, chooses to stand his ground and not show affection whatsoever toward the marriage of Lydia and Wickham (300). Nevertheless, Mrs. Bennet, “was more alive to the disgrace, which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter’s nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place” (300). It is evident that with having such an upbringing where marriage was always seen as priority, we can only conclude that Mrs. Bennet should be to blame for Lydia running off and ruining her life.
  

Multiple Choice:

Who is Elizabeth referring to in the following passage?

“She began to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes” (301).

A) Mr. Wickham
B) Mr. Darcy
C) Mr. Collins
D) Mr. Gardiner
E) Mr. Hurst