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- Silly, emotional, and irrational, Mrs. Bennet's behavior does more to harm her daughters' chances at finding husbands than it does to help. She encourages Kitty and Lydia's bad behavior and her attempts to push Elizabeth into an unwanted marriage with Mr. Collins show her to be insensible of her children's aversion to a loveless marriage.
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But the willful disregard Mrs. Bennet shows to the sensibility and decorum most of her compatriots value so highly is not her weakness but in fact her greatest strength. The woman has one abiding goal through the novel: to see all her daughters married and thus financially secure.
Mr Bennet admits he married a silly girl, but he has, for his part, largely given up his social role as pater familias. His disengagement is symbolised by his withdrawing into his library and hiding behind cynical mockery.
Mrs. Bennet is a miraculously tiresome character. Noisy and foolish, she is a woman consumed by the desire to see her daughters married and seems to care for nothing else in the world.
Mrs. Bennet is a giddy, frivolous woman whose only purpose in life seems to be gossiping and marrying off her five daughters. She lacks any awareness of her vulgar conduct and embarrasses Elizabeth and Jane to no end.
Mar 27, 2024 · Mrs. Bennet The mother of the Bennet family in “Pride and Prejudice,” Mrs. Bennet, is a powerful example of a lady enmeshed in the social mores of her day. Her introduction presents her as a figure consumed with finding her five daughters favorable marriages, motivated by the social norm that a woman’s value is directly related to her ...
What a fine thing for our girls! Mrs. Bennet’s almost absurd enthusiasm for Mr. Bingley’s arrival in the neighborhood introduces her as a silly and melodramatic character obsessed with the marriage of her daughters.
Silly, emotional, and irrational, Mrs. Bennet's behavior does more to harm her daughters' chances at finding husbands than it does to help. She encourages Kitty
