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[firawren]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ?

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

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[didanagy]

Pride and prejudice (2005)

dir. joe wright

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[beginnerblueglass]

Jane Austen was so funny

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[cveasie]

It's really interesting how Lizzie Bennet has so much of her mother's traits, and how the difference in their intelligence and horizons are some of the indicators which character the reader likes more. Because Lizzie and Mrs. Bennet are not so different, as much as Elizabeth would like to contradict it. They're both social, quick in their judgments, that are often based on quickly formed opinions, not facts. How they're both stubborn, sometimes stuck in their mindset, unwilling to admit mistakes on their side. However, while Lizzie transforms as a person during the novel, being young and having lucky circumstances, for Mrs. Bennet it's too late for any sort of change. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if Mr. Bingley had never met the Bennets? Would Lizzie's books, her wit and overall intelligence save her from her mother's fate? They're both so important to me.

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 1995 #elizabeth bennet #mrs bennet

[mariusslonelysoul]

Hand flex this, rain proposal that WHAT ABOUT the half hug from behind lizzie gives her mother after lydia and wickham leave longbourn, i wanna talk about THAT

#i only really noticed it last night #and not to be tmi but that's the exact same thing i do with my mum in that kinda situation #i'm not gonna ramble about it in the taga bc i could go on and on #but that simple gesture and both their reactions are very underrated omg #common p&p 2005 w #pride and prejudice #pride and predjudice 2005 #lizzie bennet #mrs bennet #jane austen

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Another short comment on Pride and Prejudice: I wonder how many people ‘in trade’ Darcy had previously met on a social footing, and whether meeting the Gardiners at Pemberley affected his own prejudices? If he reacted to Mrs. Bennet with thoughts approximating “This horrible vulgar social climbing woman, she’s trying to pull her family up by using her daughters to attach rich men, and she’s going to have a whole family who are just like her” - which would fit with his pre-existing stereotypes of her social background - then meeting her relatives who are intelligent people and who he could interact with happily might have dislodged some of his prejuduces, on top of him wanting to show Lizzy his improved manners.

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #mr darcy #mrs bennet #elizabeth bennet

[queen-paladin]

Mrs. Bennett Tevye

🤝

High-stress levels from trying to marry off five daughters

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[mametupa]

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[mariesstudying]

As annoying as Mrs Bennet is, I can’t fault her motives. Mrs Bennet isn’t ignorant to her family’s situation, she know that if something happened and her husband died, herself and her daughters would be screwed.

If Mr Bennet died before one of his daughters got married, the house would fall into Mr Collins ownership. They can’t guarantee Mr Collins would allow them to stay and have money because he has no real obligation to the Bennet family. This is why I think that despite his refusal to accept Elizabeth’s proposal, he was kind for proposing (I’ll discuss this in another post).

One of the Bennet sisters marrying, especially if that sister was Jane or Elizabeth, would negate this issue because the house (if I understand these concepts correctly) would be owned by the husband (naturally or by will I can’t remember). Because the owner is the daughter and sister of the remaining Bennet’s, he likely would let them remain in the home and give them money, either because he cares about his wife’s family or out ob obligation. This would apply even when Jane married Mr Bingley who had a house of his own, they just wouldn’t live with the other Bennet’s.

So as annoying as I find Mrs Bennet, I do understand her rushed desire to marry off at least one daughter. If Mr Bennet suddenly falls ill or dies whilst all the girls are single, the rest of the family loses everything.

#mrs bennet #mr bennet #jane bennet #elizabeth bennet #jane austen #pride and prejudice

[firawren]

There are some scenes from Pride and Prejudice the novel that rarely, if ever, make it into screen adaptations. If you could pick only one of these scenes to include in the next Pride and Prejudice adaptation, or your favorite existing adaptation, which would it be?

I've ordered these by when they appear in the novel, so read through them all first!

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[didanagy]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

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[degankatz]

Pride and Prejudice economics!

and the dangers of being a woman in the 19th century

I started thinking about Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley and how they were considered so rich as to be the most eligible of bachelors. I then wondered what rich actually meant, since "10,000 a year" doesn't really sound like that much.

Knowing inflation would make that feel like a very different number, I did some digging using the Bank of England inflation calculator for 1813 and then converting that to American dollars. (There are some articles about how that really varies because of the difficulty of comparing the costs of goods and services then to now, but this gives a much better idea than just reading the number.

Mr. Darcy

annual income: 10,000 a year

in US dollars in 2023: $694,000

entire fortune: 200,000

in US dollars in 2023: $13,890,000 👀

Mr. Bingley

annual income: 5,000 a year

in US dollars in 2023: $374,000

This made me very curious about the Bennets, since the difference between 10k and 2k seems large, but not overwhelmingly so. Boy, was I wrong.

Mr. Bennet

annual income: 2,000 a year

in US dollars in 2023: $139,000

While that's a lot of money, it goes to supporting 7 people in the family plus staff and the entire estate. It's also only temporary. Because the estate is entailed and almost all of his income comes from the estate, that money will go directly to Mr. Collins rather than the Bennet women when Mr. Bennet dies.

While it's easy to make fun of Mrs. Bennet for being so obsessed with her daughters marrying these guys, I have to admit I get it. There weren't many respectable ways for women to support themselves back then and, even if the girls married regular guys, an entire family could fall into poverty if something happened to the husband.

I understand why the appeal of men with their own independent fortunes was such a draw. She also needed them to marry well for her own survival, since she would be entirely dependent upon her daughters' husbands once her own died. I might have been obsessed, too, if I were in her shoes.

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #economics #mr darcy #mr bingley #mr bennet #elizabeth bennet #mrs bennet

[smolfangirl]

Call me a hater but the main reason I can't enjoy Pride and Prejudice 1995 as I'd like to is how goddamn nerve grating Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Collins are.

Mrs. Bennet is so shrill and over the top annoying that it's hard to remember that her concerns are incredibly valid in the book. Does she go about it the wrong way? Uh, yeah. But she has so many reasons to be rightfully worried about the future and her daughters - and that's important to the story! If we ignore that complexity, we ignore the basic workings of the society Austen lived in.

And oh boy, don't get me started on Mr. Collins. Just... no. Sure, he's a bit of a clown and loves to lick the boots of His Esteemed Patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. But overall he's not a bad husband choice (certainly not the worst in P&P). He can offer a comfortable home, he's probably not gonna be an abusive husband or father, he might even be awarded with another living in the future. He's just not going to be a good match for Elizabeth. And that's enough of a reason to refuse him - it doesn't make it an utterly ridiculous choice for Charlotte to marry him. Except the series completely forgets that and turns this stiff self-important and awkward young man of 25 into a cringy middle aged fool that makes me want to cover my eyes when he's on screen

Anyway, sorry 1995 fans please let me live

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[nymphpens]

Mrs. Bennet:

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[thepompusonefrombefore]

Me thinking about Pride and Prejudice

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[talkaustentome]

Don’t mind me, just out here creating Jane Austen memes out of Good Omens stills while processing season 2 (Go watch it!). I’m sure Aziraphale would approve.

Pride and Prejudice x Good Omens

Just like Crowley, Elizabeth knows what’s coming, and she wishes she didn’t have to be there.

I wonder what Wickham’s punishment in the Good Omens hell would have looked like.

“Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.” I kinda love how obnoxious married Lydia is.

Truly one of my favourite moments in Austen’s novels, and any love story ever, is Mr. Darcy declaring Elizabeth “tolerable” and looking at her again to confirm his original verdict, only to go: “Daaamn. I was wrong.” (Also, the things I’d do to get a version of Darcy that does the Good Omens apology dance for Elizabeth.)

Thankfully, 10k a year helped Mrs. Bennet to change her mind about Darcy again very quickly.

The biggest change I’ve gone through since first getting into Austen was definitely going from loving Mr. Bennet because of his sarcasm to thinking he’s actually kind of awful.

Caroline Bingley, the original pick-me girl?

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