Comparing Two Proposals Of Darcy In Pride And Prejudice
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Write a comparison of the two proposals Lizzie receives from Mr Collins and Mr Darcy
Lizzie’s view of Mr Collins is that is a very proud and boastful man. He is more interested in his own position and success than the feelings of other people. She therefore does not like Mr Colllins, and would not consider marriage to him as a possibility. She is under pressure from her Mother to get married, but her feelings towards him are so negative so would not consider it.
Her feelings for Mr Darcy are more complicated. He is attractive, but is vain and arrogant. She is put off by this, but also because he has acted in a manner which has affected many people in a negative way, such as: Mr Wickham, …show more content…
As Mr Collins is a boorish character, he offends Lizzie by impulsively exclaiming that Lady Catherine de Bourgh had said his wife ‘must be active, a useful sort of person, not brought up high’ which is suggesting he picked her as she was born into a lower gentry family and she is useful to have because she can be told what to do and she will do it. Lizzie is more ambitious than this stereotype and would not consider marriage to someone who thought that was the role of a …show more content…
However the proposals are quite different.
Mr Collins proposal was based on Lady Catherine’s order to Mr Collins to get a wife and the overall practicality of having a wife. Lady Catherine tells Mr Collins ‘A clergyman like you must marry’, because Austen uses the word must, it conveys to the reader it was compulsory to marry in The Regency Times, and as Mr Collins in almost a worshiper of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, he immediately searches for a woman to marry, which leads him to the Bennet family and then to Elizabeth.
The proposal is an attempt by Mr Collins to get any wife rather than one he loves. Because of this his proposal sounds business-like rather than romantic, Mr Collins outlines “My reasons for marriage” which makes the proposal almost sound like a legal document.
And as a result of this she declines, but as he is a very self-loving person, he does not accept that answer and asks another four times for her answer, and after the final rejection she storms out of the
Write a comparison of the two proposals Lizzie receives from Mr Collins and Mr Darcy
Lizzie’s view of Mr Collins is that is a very proud and boastful man. He is more interested in his own position and success than the feelings of other people. She therefore does not like Mr Colllins, and would not consider marriage to him as a possibility. She is under pressure from her Mother to get married, but her feelings towards him are so negative so would not consider it.
Her feelings for Mr Darcy are more complicated. He is attractive, but is vain and arrogant. She is put off by this, but also because he has acted in a manner which has affected many people in a negative way, such as: Mr Wickham, …show more content…
As Mr Collins is a boorish character, he offends Lizzie by impulsively exclaiming that Lady Catherine de Bourgh had said his wife ‘must be active, a useful sort of person, not brought up high’ which is suggesting he picked her as she was born into a lower gentry family and she is useful to have because she can be told what to do and she will do it. Lizzie is more ambitious than this stereotype and would not consider marriage to someone who thought that was the role of a …show more content…
However the proposals are quite different.
Mr Collins proposal was based on Lady Catherine’s order to Mr Collins to get a wife and the overall practicality of having a wife. Lady Catherine tells Mr Collins ‘A clergyman like you must marry’, because Austen uses the word must, it conveys to the reader it was compulsory to marry in The Regency Times, and as Mr Collins in almost a worshiper of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, he immediately searches for a woman to marry, which leads him to the Bennet family and then to Elizabeth.
The proposal is an attempt by Mr Collins to get any wife rather than one he loves. Because of this his proposal sounds business-like rather than romantic, Mr Collins outlines “My reasons for marriage” which makes the proposal almost sound like a legal document.
And as a result of this she declines, but as he is a very self-loving person, he does not accept that answer and asks another four times for her answer, and after the final rejection she storms out of the