Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Elizabeth Bennet
- Her eyes are from which we see and judge most of what happens.
- The story is mostly told from her point of view.
- Mr.Bennet's favourite.
- Less beautiful than her elder sister, Jane.
- Her character changes, grows and develops in this novel.
- She doesn't always follow social rules
- She follows them enough so she is not bad- mannered.
- She is polite to Mr.Collins and Darcy although she doesn't like them.
- She ignores pointless parts of "decorum" if they stop her from doing something important.
- She walks through Netherfield alone because she is too worried about Jane, to wait for the carriage
- Miss Bingley believes that she is socially superior to Elizabeth, and she often insults her, however Elizabeth stays calm and polite.
- Better manners.
- Pride & Prejudice
- She is "determined to hate" Darcy before she knows him well enough.
- She ignores anyone who defends Darcy as she doesn't want to believe she is wrong about her opinion.
- She immediately accepts Wickham's story about Darcy.
- Her prejudice makes her blind to Darcy's good qualities and all of Wickham's suspicious behaviour.
- Her early prejudice is caused by Darcy hurting her pride by refusing to dance with her at the first ball.
- She believes that she is good at judging characters.
- "I...have picked myself on my discernment"
- She sticks to her first opinion of Darcy and Wickham.
- Her pride and prejudice have been a barrier with her relationship with Darcy.
- She eventually sees that.
- Personality
- Mr.Bennet recognises her "quickness"
- Mr.Darcy admires the "liveliness" of her mind.
- Playful and lively, which was unusual at the time, because women were expected to be quiet and gentle.
- Her character was used by Austen to express her views on what a woman SHOULD be like.
- Clever, this is shown by, " Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters."
- Playful, this is shown by, " she had a lively, playful disposition".
- Opinionated: "you give your opinion very decidedly".
- Her opinion is expressed playfully. She teases Darcy to "despise me if you dare"
- She can be straightforward: she rejects Mr Collins' proposal by telling him " You could not make me happy".
- The conversations she has with Darcy present her best features.
- They emphasize her intelligence and wit.
- Instead of insulting Darcy, she makes intelligent points about the flaws in his opinion.
- Darcy talks about how Charlotte is living an "easy distance" from her family and Elizabeth says that distance is "relative"
- She is playful and teases
- Saying she's "convinced" that he "has no defect"
- Her teasing never seems cruel.
- Bingley calls Darcy "awful", Elizabeth sees that he is "offended" and doesn't laugh.
- Darcy's letter in Chapter 35
- Shows elizabeth how prejudiced she's been.