What does Jane Austen want the reader to think about Mr Collins and Charlotte? ENGLISH LIT HELP ANYONE?

What does Jane Austen want the reader to think about Mr Collins and Charlotte? Include Lizzie's response page 87 and relate to their earlier conversation on pages 15-16 and charlotte's reasons on page 85. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE? please help me, my deadline is tuesday :

What does Jane Austen want the reader to think about Mr Collins and Charlotte? ENGLISH LIT HELP ANYONE?
|I don't have your book so I will basically tell you what I think since I have read the book and own all the movies :-)


Basically Lizzie was upset with Charlotte for accepting Mr Collins marriage proposal because she didn't know all his 'defects' but Charlotte wasn't so prejudice as Lizzie. Charlotte was willing to take the proposal of a man that had a good position in society and a permanent job that would provide for her, love didn't have to be involved.


Charlotte felt this might be her only proposal since she wasn't pretty(like Jane) or talented(like Lizzie) so it was better to accept than to remain an old maid.


Nothing wrong with marrying someone that will provide for you when you have no ambitions of your own and the man is good and respectful to you.
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Mr. William Collins


Mr. William Collins is Mr. Bennet's nephew and a clergyman. Because Mr. Bennet has no sons, Collins is in line to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate. Austen describes him as "not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society." Mr. Bennet enjoys Collins's visit to his home because he appreciates Collins's naive stupidity, but Elizabeth resents his attentions and rejects his marriage proposal. She is very distressed when her friend Charlotte Lucas decides to marry Mr. Collins out of interest in his estate rather than his personality.





William Collins


Since Mr. Bennet has no sons, his 25-year-old nephew Mr. Collins is, to everyone's chagrin, the heir of his estate. He is also, in Lizzy's words, "a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man." Mr. Collins owes his current position as a parson to the patronage of Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine De Bourgh. He is awed by her nobility and talks about her, and the magnificence of her estate, almost constantly, adding shameless pandering to his habitual faults of long-windedness and pomposity.








Charlotte Lucas


Charlotte Lucas is Elizabeth Bennet's best friend. She distresses Elizabeth by deciding to marry William Collins, Mr. Bennet's nephew, out of interest in his estate. Up until this point Elizabeth had respected Charlotte's sensibility, but her decision to marry Mr. Collins lost her much of Elizabeth's respect.


Charlotte Lucas: Kind, plain, and practical, Charlotte is Lizzy's best friend -- until she shows the bad judgment of marrying Mr. Collins. At 27, however, Charlotte has few alternatives that will guarantee her as much security.





In some characters, Austen depicts pride overtly. Lady Charlotte de Bourgh is motivated by pride in her family's status to try to break up a potential match between Elizabeth and Darcy.





Elizabeth's friend Charlotte Lucas decides to marry William Collins, the heir to Mr. Bennet's estate, out of a simple desire to make his estate her own. Elizabeth strongly objects to such a union; it offends her sense of pride for someone to enter into a loveless marriage for purely material purposes.





Austen is obviously unsympathetic to this view of marriage. Charlotte's decision to marry Mr. Collins damages her friendship with Lizzy, who repeatedly characterizes her motives as "mercenary," and when Lizzy visits the newlyweds at the Hunsford parsonage, she quickly deduces that Charlotte has arranged household affairs such that she spends as little time with her husband as possible.