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A 3 page essay on the contrasting views of Charlotte and Elizabeth on marriage in Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.' Their characters and the way they react to things around them are used in this evaluation. No Bibliography.
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and deficiencies of the Bingleys almost at once and appreciates Lady Catherine de Bourgh at first meeting. Her failures are with "intricate" people who moreover stand in a relationship
of great intimacy to her. Such people include: Charlotte Lucas, George Wickham and Fitzwilliam Darcy. The book itself is given an added dimension in that respect because it
shows that intimacy blurs perceptions: intelligence fails if there is sufficient distance between mind and object. Charlotte Lucas is "a sensible, intelligent young woman, about
twenty-seven ... Elizabeths intimate friend." But we very soon know that in an important respect she differs from Elizabeth; though Elizabeth herself does not know this fact. When,
very early in the first volume, they discuss the possibility of an attachment between Jane and Bingley, Charlotte says Jane should make some efforts in this direction; but Elizabeth reminds
her friend that Miss Bennet hardly knows him. This, however does not deter Charlotte: "I Wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to
him tomorrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness, as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage
is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their
felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of
the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." But Elizabeth does not believe this statement and she responds as follows: "You make me laugh,
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