Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mr & Mrs Bennet
- Mr Bennet
- Likeable
- Clever
- Dry sense of humour
- Teases Mrs B...
- "I have a high respect for your
nerves. They are my old
friends."
- Comic
- Enjoys mocking
people
- Especially Mr Collins
- Mr Bennet has "great hopes of finding
him quite the reverse," of sensible
- Similar to liz
- Share same opinion
- Mr Collins proposal
- "I will never see you again if you do."
- Makes reader view him positively
- Mrs Bennet
- Isn't very bright
- "uncertain temper"
- Caricature
- Hysterical
- Unaware of her own flaws
- Ironic humour
- Main aim is to get her daughters married
- She is the biggest obstacle to their
marriage prospects
- Bad example
- Austen uses humour to make a
serious point
- Materialism
- Lack of self-awareness
- Contribute to Lyd's recklessness
- Marriage
- Their marriage is based on shallow attraction
- Youth & beauty
- Not enough to be happy
- Nothing in common, no 'real affection'
- Mr Bennet
- Not much happiness
- Laughing
- 'Ignorance and folly'
- Mrs B can't "understand his character"
- Children
- unhappy marriage negatively
affects them
- Mrs B= bad influence
- Mr Bennet= bad parenting
- He either laughs at bad
behaviour or avoids it
- Liz
- Liz sees all the disadvantages
of her parents marriage
- Makes her determined to marry someone she
LOVES & RESPECTS