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He usually shows praise for others and he is also a slow character who is in some ways tries to act somewhat important. || He has nothing to brag about. || He fails in society because at the Bingley Ball Mr. Darcy keeps Elizabeths interest, and he is turned down when he proposes to her. ||
 * ​​ || **Behavior/Attitude** || **Societal Class** || **Success in Society** ||
 * **Mr. Collins** || Mr. Collins is the distant cousin and heir of the Bennets estate.
 * **Mr. Darcy** || Mr. Darcy is the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. || He is a wealthy man who makes more than 5000 a year. || He exceeds in society for he is very much respected. ||

** __Elizabeth Bennet__ ** Middle-class. The second daughter of Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth is the most intelligent and reasonable of the five sisters. She is well read and quick-witted.  __**DARCY**__ wealthy gentleman, the master of Pemberley, and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Darcy is intelligent and honest, his excess of pride causes him to look down on his social inferiors .  Gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet has a sarcastic, cynical sense of humor that he uses to purposefully irritate his wife. Though he loves his daughters (Elizabeth in particular), He prefers not to involved with the never-ending marriage concerns of the women around him rather than offer help.
 * __Mr. Bingley __ **

** __Miss Bingley (Mr. Bingley’s unmarried sister)__ ** Bingley’s snobbish sister. Miss Bingley looks at Elizabeth’s middle-class background. Her vain attempts to garner Darcy’s attention cause Darcy to admire Elizabeth’s self-possessed character even more.   A rich, bossy noblewoman; Mr. Collins’s patron and Darcy’s aunt. Lady Catherine epitomizes class snobbery, especially in her attempts to order the middle-class Elizabeth away from her well-bred nephew
 * <span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__Mr.Collins__ <span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ** <span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Clergyman who stands to inherit Mr. Bennet’s property. Mr. Collins’s own social status is nothing to brag about, but he takes great pains to let everyone and anyone know that Lady Catherine de Bourgh serves as his patroness. He is the worst combination of snobbish and obsequious
 * __<span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Lady Catherine de Bourgh __ **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The eldest girl of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, she is heralded as the most beautiful girl in the county. The most reserved and soft-spoken of the girls she catches the eyes of the highly esteemed Mr. Bingley. In Elizabeth's words, she never has something ill to say of anyone. <span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The matriarche of the Bennet family, Mrs. Bennet is a talkative woman who cares of nothing but marrying off her five daughters to wealthy gentlemen. Ruled by a need for social graces <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** __Mary Bennet__ ** <span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">is the only plain Bennet sister, and rather than join in some of the family activities, she reads, although is often impatient for display. She works hard for knowledge and accomplishment, but has neither genius nor taste. At the ball at Netherfield, she embarrasses her family by singing badly. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Catherine "Kitty" Bennet__ ** is the fourth Bennet sister, aged seventeen. Portrayed as a less headstrong but equally silly shadow of Lydia.
 * <span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Miss Jane Bennet __ **
 * __Mrs. Bennet__ **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> __** MISS DE BOURGH **__<span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> invalid daughter of Lady Catherine.
 * <span style="color: #0ca0ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Lydia Bennet __ **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> is the youngest Bennet sister, aged fifteen. She is repeatedly described as frivolous and headstrong. Her main activity in life is socialising, especially flirting with the military officers stationed in the nearby town of Meryton. She dominates her older sister Kitty and is supported in the family by her mother. After she elopes with Wickham and he is paid to marry her, she shows no remorse for the embarrassment that her actions caused for her family, but acts as if she has made a wonderful match of which her sisters should be jealous.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner__ ** Mrs. Bennet's intelligent and cultivated brother and sister-in-law. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Charlotte Lucas__ **Charlotte acts as a foil to Elizabeth by embodying the opposite view of marriage. Charlotte makes no attempt to find a husband whom she loves and esteems, but simply gives in to the necessity of acquiring financial security through marriage. She deals as well with Mr. Collins as is possible, but Elizabeth doubts their long-term happiness. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Sir William Lucas__ **A pleasant but not overly deep or intellectual man, he is a friend of the Bennet family. He is civil but his conversation is basically limited to empty observations and descriptions of his presentation and knighthood. Elizabeth accompanies him and his younger daughter Maria to visit Charlotte. <span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** __Maria Lucas__ **Charlotte's younger sister, she is as empty-headed as her father. Her only role in the novel is to travel with Elizabeth and Sir William to visit Charlotte
 * __Wickham__ ** is an old acquaintance of Darcy from childhood, and an officer in the militia unit stationed near Meryton. Superficially charming, he rapidly forms a friendship with Elizabeth Bennet, prompting remarks upon his suitability as a potential husband. He spreads numerous tales about the wrongs Darcy has done to him, colouring the popular perception of the other man in local society; it is eventually revealed that these tales are distortions, and that Darcy was the wronged man in their acquaintance.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Mrs. Forster__ **The wife of Colonel Forster, who is the head of the regiment stationed at Meryton, she becomes friends with Lydia and invites her to spend the summer with them in Brighton. She is clearly not very responsible in her supervision of Lydia, and seems to have a rather frivolous character. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** __Colonel Forster__ ** A good-natured and basically responsible man, Colonel Forster tries to do all that he possibly can to help the Bennets recover Lydia after her elopement with Wickham. While the elopement is not his fault, Lydia was under his care and he did not seem to be observing her conduct very closely. <span style="color: #7e1b7e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** __Miss Younge__ **Miss Younge was Georgiana Darcy's governess at one point and conspired with Wickham to get Georgiana to elope with him. Clearly lacking in all moral sense, she is mentioned in the novel again when Darcy bribes her to tell him the whereabouts of Wickham and Lydia.

Class Structure in PA/the US I do believe that there is a class structure in the US. Essentially in the U.S. there are three class structures: the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor; as well there are subdivisions that were tacked on as economic systems fluctuated such as the lower middle class. With the way the economy is, the wealthy are able to keep their inheritance because they are not taxed as heavily as the common people. As well, because of this, they are able to provide the best medical care, properties, ect. However for the middle class and the expanding poor it is becoming more and more difficult to rise out of the rut with skyrocketing prices and taxes.

How does it correspond to the novel? Pride and Prejudice was all about class structure! For example, Mrs. Bennet was possessed with marrying off her daughters to wealthy men. As well, class structure was what kept someone in comfortable living standards. The back drop for Mrs. Bennet's obsession was that in the case that her husband should die she and her daughters would consequently lose everything, including their position in society. In essence class structure in the US corresponds to the structure in the novel because the wealthy class, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy, ect. are exposed to the finer things in life, for example properties.

Thoughts on the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy throughout the novel? Elizabeth and Darcy exhibit a love/hate relationship throughout the novel. When confronted by him, Eliza has an intense disdain for the man due to his pride but as the story progresses she comes to see why he does certain things and finds him very admirable for his devotion to friends.

Do you think that Elizabeth would be considered a remarkable woman in modern society? No, I don't believe that she would be. Women now a days are not as concerned in marrying into wealthy families and are just as independent as Elizabeth.