#mr.bennet

[mametupa]

[callmeanxietygirl]

So long Mr.Bennet

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[callmeanxietygirl]

Hasta pronto Sr Bennet

[diamantdog]

🌻

asdfghjkkl:;; lol first of all, how dare you!? i didn’t think anyone would actually ask lol 😂

second of all,

one thing i love the most about pride and prejudice (2005) is the way director joe wright skillfully uses interior and exterior to tell a love story between two seemingly different individuals who similarly do not fit in within the society. we start the film with elizabeth reading a book outdoors while slowly walking toward her house, where the plot begins to unfold. after she meets mr.darcy, the two are mostly seen inside, conflicting with each other. one exception is the first proposal scene, where they meet outside but are still arguing; but notice the bad weather! the rain symbolizes the disharmony between them. this is one reason why i love that the film changes the original setting of the scene in the book. in line with this theory, the second proposal also occurs outside. moreover, at the very end of the film, after mr.bennet gives his blessings, elizabeth runs out of the room, presumably to meet mr.darcy who’s waiting for her outside. and this is the very thing that has been consuming me for 17-ish years lol. thank you.

[damemaladroite]

it always feels strange to me that they didn't even try to save when the kids were younger too, like before Jane had officially come out as a lady-- there must have been a period of 7 or 8 years between when Lydia was born and it seemed unlikely they'd have any more children where they could have begun saving some money since they wouldn't have to worry about the cost of having a daughter out (since from my understanding, that could really add up) It just feels like they had gotten used to this extravagant lifestyle that they had early on in their marriage and weren't willing to try and economize so that they could set aside at least a bit more for their daughters.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop saying that Mrs. Bennet is the only one "taking the situation seriously."

She is not.

Screaming about a problem doesn't mean you are taking it seriously. If she was taking it seriously, she'd have given her girls a proper education and advocated for saving for dowries. Her little schemes around Jane don't count as taking it seriously.

No one is taking the situation seriously.

[ibetyouthinkabtme]

i just realized that mr.bennet and coriolanus snow are played by the same actor, this is wild to me

[theghostlycollectorvoidblr]

Trying to understand Pride and Prejudice

I finished reading Pride and Prejudice a few days ago and I'm having a hard time understanding the appeal of this book. I understand why it is considered a classic and I think it's fine but I can't get past how much Mr.Bennet does nothing just to get his laughs and how much of a creep Wickham is. I do think that Elizabeth and Darcy are great.

[mametupa]

[dancingchopines]

On my latest reread of Pride and Prejudice, I noticed multiple ways both Mrs.Bennet and Mr.Bennet failed to help their daughters make good marriages. 

1.The meager dowries. Their small dowries are brought up of course in context of how their parents never saved enough because they kept expecting to have a son who would then be able to keep the estate in the family and the girls wouldn’t need to marry quite so urgently to provide for themselves. This still strikes me as a bad plan even if they had had a son? Imagine that there had been one son, born after Lydia, and now this poor boy would have to help five older sisters get married off, with years of little accumulation of dowry money???? If an estate isn’t being entailed away, as we see from the comments of Charlotte Lucas’ younger brothers cheering when she (finally, by the time period standards) got married, it still would have been burdensome. The parents should have been saving a better amount for each daughter regardless.

2.Not properly educating them. Now Lady Catherine de Bourgh says many inappropriate things but I definitely agree with her that not getting a governess for the Bennet girls was a terrible idea. Once it became clear that there would be no son and their dowries would be small from poor planning, everything now depended on these girls being able to get good spouses. Shouldn’t then they have been educated to have been as ideal spouses as possible? This is like wanting your kids to get into college to best provide for themselves but not preparing for any entrance exams and doing that coursework. Instead, as Lizzy retorts to Lady Catherine, the girls had masters in subjects if they wished. As we readers see, none of the Bennet daughters are really educated in skills, socially or housework, to the standards of the time. They’re not proficient in the arts or socially(barring Lizzy and Jane in the latter).

3.Not exposing them to enough candidates. Mr.Darcy at one point mentions how society in Meryton in less varying than in London. At another point Lizzy says they the family never went into London because her father did not like being in town.  So it is established that new people don’t often come into the area and that the Bennets had the money to be in London to some degree but only did not due to Mr.Bennet’s presence. How then, are all five girls supposed to find suitable husbands without sufficient society to move in? 

4.The inappropriate behavior of the Bennet family, parents and children. This is the most emphasized of my points in the actual novel so I am just including it for completionism but I won’t elaborate on it.

In summary, besides the overtly improper behavior of the Bennet family and the small dowries mentioned in the book, the Bennet parents deeply failed to make good matches for their daughters and in my opinion it is frankly a combination miracle plus testament to their characters that Jane and Lizzy made the matches that they did.

[morosoro]

Just finished reading Pride & Prejudice and ahhhhh!

Honestly the part in the last chapter that gets me most is this:

“Mr.Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than any thing else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.”

Like- aww! You’re telling me the man regularly surprise-visit’s his daughter and her husband where they live hours away?! How cute! I love that so much!

Anyway… This is definitely gonna be a book I read again and again! But first I have a small handful more I must make it through.

[aduialel]

I love this! Who could be better Caroline than Gollum. 😂

I might wish to change the roles of Thorin and Thranduil but it's so easy to see Thranduil as a seducer and a charming well dressed rake, among other things. 👀😏

Hobbit characters as Pride and Prejudice characters

Note: its just pure fun, noo hate  …………………………………………………… Thorin as Mr. Darcy

Thranduil as Mr. Wickham

Gandalf  as Mr. Bennett

Fili as Jane Bennett

Kili as Kitty Bennett

Bilbo as Charles Bingley

Gollum as Caroline Bingley

[myfandomistingling]

Mr.Bennet: "I don't have a favourite child!"

Mrs.Bennet: "Lydia is missing!"

Mr.Bennet:"Who?"

[elizabeth-freaking-bennet]

Lydia: In today’s day and age, you’re either good at driving or you’re sexy.

Lydia: And I am as hot as they come.

Mr.Bennet: I see you crashed the minivan again.

[zoltyx]

Christmas gifts I would give to Pride and Prejudice characters:

Mr.Bennet:

Darcy:

Lydia:

Wickham:

Lizzie: