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=​​Pride and Prejudice - Characters and Classes=
 * //**Characters**// || **//Societal Class//** || **//Behaviour/Attitudes of Character//** || //**Success in Society**// ||
 * //Elizabeth Bennett// || Lower upper class || Positive attitude and kind manners. Elizabeth is very good at speaking to people, she speaks her mind, but has a way with words that sometimes masks what she is really saying. Not fond of rude people such as Mr. Darcy. Grows angry at Darcy because she thinks he is keeping her sister Jane and her love intrest Mr. Bingly apart. Turns down a marriage proposal from Mr. Darcy. || Elizabeth Bennet is invited to many parties in town. She is well connected in society. ||
 * //Mr. Darcy// || High social status || Thinks he is better than everyone else. Starts to fall in love with Elizabeth. When she delcines his marriage proposal, because she thinks he is rude, steals from the Wickhams, and is against Jane and Mr. Bingleys love, Mr. Darcy writes Jane a letter explaining to her why he did those things. This shows he cares and has a heart. || Mr. Darcy is invited to many parties in town by Mr. Bingley. He is a large success in society because of is wealth and his friendships, not his behavior or attitude. ||
 * //Mr. Bingley// || High social status || Positive Attitude. Outgoing at events. Sticks up for Bennet family when Mr. Darcy and his sisters make fun of them and say they are below them. Gives in and listens to them however after time has pasts and distances himself from Jane. || Mr. Bingley is very big success in society, Mr. Bingley is very well connected in society. ||
 * //Miss Bingley// || Upper class || Pretends to be kind to Jane Bennet. Does not want Jane to be with Mr. Bingley because she thinks that will bring Elizabeth closer to Mr. Darcy whom she wants to be with. || Successful in society due to being related to Mr. Bingley. ||
 * //Mr. Collins// || Lower Upper Class. || Focused on gaining the estate of the Bennet family, can be quite rude at times. After he is declined by Elizabeth for marraige, he marrys Elizabeth's friend and they will inheret the Bennets estate. || Is occasionally thought of as successful due to the relation to Lady Catherine but the Bennet family do not get on as they believe he is too focused on the estate. ||
 * //Lady Catherine deBourgh// || Upper Class || Very snobby, thinks she is better than others due to her large wealth. Looks down on the Bennett girls because they have not been taught by a governess. She herselft is very well mannered but is not very kind to people. She loves to introduce people to new things, it lets her feel superior to them. || Successful in society due to her wealth not her manners or kindness. ||
 * //Mr. Wickham// || Lower Class || Mr. Wickham is a person who hunts for others fortunes, he instantly catches the eye of Elizabeth Bennett because of his charm. Does not care for Mr. Darcy. || Mr. Wickam is not really a success in society, he really doesn't have much money. ||

//Is there a current class structure in either the USA or Australia which may relate to the novel?// I believe that there is a class system in Australia, however it is not as pronounced as much as the novel. I believe that Australian society consists of people from different income levels and while this can affect the living standards and these people may be able to visibly show their wealth, they are not that different to a person from a lower income group. This difference is minimal and provides a distinction, but not a separation of different people.  **​** In the novel a person is successful by their wealth. Wealth determins if a person is pleasent with their wealth or snobby about it. Their wealth also determins how successful a person is in society along with their attitude. In Ameribcan our class system is split up by what an individual person earns with their job. We have a small percent of very wealthy people, the people who make the most money. People who own large companies or are successful inventers are Upper class. Then we have the Upper Middle class who make a little more than avarage. People who have are employeed as surgens. Then we have the Middle class and the Lower Middle class. These people make the avarage amount of money and where most people fall in our class system. These people have jobs such as teachers or nurses. Then we have our Lower class who are the people in our country who are less fortunate.
 * Class Structure**
 * There is a class system in the US today, it is split up by the wealth of the person. The upper class are the people that have the most money and it goes down too middle class which are most people in the country today. The lower class would be the less fortunate. It also is not as pronounced as the novel, and the class definitly effect the living conditions and standards of people. The classes are not seperated like they are in Pride and Prejudice, actually they are very interactive together . **

I believe there is a class structure here in the US. There is an upper, middle, and lower class that is seperated by money and their position in the social structure. The rich can really do whatever they want while the lower class often gets the short end of the stick. I believe a lot of the sterotypes fom the book do still carry over into todays world while others have thankfully died out. People with money will probably always have most of the power but maybe someday that will change.

// The novel addresses double standards because there are many of the people from the upper class such as Lady Catherine deBourgh who believe that their behaviour is not measured in the same way as the people of the lower and even middle classes. This is also at times prevalent in the 21st century society in Australia because of the way that some people are allowed to act in certain ways, while there are some people who would be told that they weren't allowed to do that. This is most likely due to either trust of behaviour in some circumstances or in other cases, it may be because of differences in opinion or interpretation of law or rules. // **
 * The Novel and Double Standards

**Trust and behavior play a key role in the treatment that you recieve. I have seen many times people who are generally untrusted get into more trouble for folly, then those people who are viewed as a trusted or "good" person. There is a right of our congressmen that allows them to be dismissed from some laws because of the nature of the job. This is a very good example of the double standards we have here in the United States.**

The double standards the book adresses are a lot like the double standerds in America expecially with celeberites or powerful people. A crime that a celeberity commints would be handled differently that a crime that an avarage American person would commit.