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therealelizabethbennet · 6 months

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#elizabeth bennet #pride and prejudice #mr. darcy #jane austen #love #period drama #pride & prejudice #lizzie and Darcy #pride & prejudice 2005

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pipsbriberymuffins · 6 months

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im about to search for pride and prejudice fanfic, i am either going to be sorely disappointed or find a new reason to live

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #lizzie and darcy #fanfic #fanfiction #pride and prejudice fanfiction?

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ktempestbradford · 5 months

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For my Austenite friends! This post reminded me of the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries series, which I think many of you will enjoy.

Instead of writing up why, I un-Privated an old video I'd archived explaining why I love the series so much.

You can get the series on Bookshop.org, Amazon, or other favorite online bookstores.

#Jane Austen #Jane Austen Pastiche #Jane Austen fanfic #Lizzie and Darcy

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melinoegoddessofghosts · 2 years

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Love Languages in P&P

My family were recently discussing love languages. If you don't know, love languages are ways that people give and receive love. They are: Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Gift Giving, Quality Time and Physical Touch.

This got me thinking about Pride and Prejudice and how love languages play a pretty big role in the central conflict where Lizzie and Darcy keep getting their wires crossed.

In my interpretation of the story, Lizzie communicates (and receives) love via Words of Affirmation. She says what she means all the time. She constantly tells Jane how much she loves her, she is often called out by others for being too blunt, etc. She has a hard time interpreting love that isn't stated directly. Which is why she misunderstands Darcy.

Darcy's love language, by my estimation, is acts of service. Darcy communicates how he feels through actions because he is really socially awkward and can't with the words and the talking. As awkward and painful as it may have been, he communicates his love for Georgiana by throwing money at George Wickham to reveal his true character. He communicates his love for Bingley by encouraging action (leaving Jane and the Bennets).

In the end, Lizzie and Darcy start to come together when they begin to understand each other's love languages. Lizzie realizes that Darcy communicates through acts of service when he writes her a letter about it, using words, Lizzie's love language. Darcy realizes Lizzie is coming around when she is kind to Georgiana when touring Pemberley, an act of service, Darcy's love language. (In the 1995 BBC miniseries, there is a sweet scene where Lizzie covers for Georgiana's distress at the mention of Wickham by offering to turn the pages of her sheet music while she plays pianoforte.)

Then they go back to using their own love languages, when Darcy's grand romantic gesture is to prevent Lydia from being lied to by Wickham and to take action to save the Bennet family from public shame. And Darcy takes Elizabeth at her word when she stutters out an awkward and unquoted acceptance of his proposal. Austen writes, "Elizabeth feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand, that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure, his present assurances." Speaking is clearly difficult for her, but she still manages to convey, clearly and completely, everything she wants to say to him in this moment.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of two people who fall in love but have to learn to speak each other's languages before they can understand and act on their feelings.

Just my personal interpretation. Feel free to discuss and disagree.

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sapphic-schoolkid · 2 years

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it’s always funny to me when people say darcy is the shy, introverted one and lizzie is the outgoing and extroverted one because they’re literally both canonically antisocial introverts

#pride and prejudice #lizzie and darcy

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laurenillustrated · 3 months

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“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

Pride and Prejudice illustration based on the book.

#jane austen #jane austen art #jane austin quote #pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice art #mr darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #lizzie bennet #elizabeth and darcy #book illustrations #book illustration #character illustration #illustration art #kids illustration #regency period #regency era #regency england

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whetstonefires · 11 months

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You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

#hoc est meum #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #charlotte lucas #meta #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie #so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong #partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother #people have different needs like that's a thing okay #marriage #spinsterhood #pragmatism #like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage #he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically #also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan #darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley #she ofc does not bring this up how could she #but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

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cocomonerd · 2 years

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No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

#pride and prejudice #literature #Pride #And #Prejudice #Will always defend this book #Jane austen #Lizzy Bennet #Mr darcy

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duchess-of-new-shire · 1 year

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My favorite ship dynamic of all time, ever, is a little something I like to call anxiety x audacity

Examples: