LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Mr. Darcy
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Mr. Collins
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Mr. Wickham
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Mr. Bingley
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charlotte marries Mr. Collins because he has a stable income and offers her the opportunity to have a home of her own. She does not love him, but she doesn’t believe that love is essential for a successful marriage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth’s rejection of Mr Collins’s marriage proposal is welcomed by her father, regardless of the financial benefit to the family of such a match. Mr Collins then marries Elizabeth’s friend, Charlotte Lucas.
Detailed explanation-3: -She’s happy to have the chance for such a life. “At the age of twenty-seven, ” Austen writes, “without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.” If Mr. Collins were like George Austen, of course, no one would find Charlotte’s marriage the least bit unsettling.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charlotte married Mr. Collins of her free will-it’s not like she was forced into it, or anything. Mitali wrote: “Charlotte is pregnant by the end of the book, so yes, they definitely consummated the marriage.
Detailed explanation-5: -Charlotte is 27 years old at the beginning of the novel and was headed toward spinsterhood before marrying Mr. Collins.