#Elizabeth bennet

[hotgirlbelle]

pride and prejudice (2005) behind the scenes via @focusfeatures on ig !!!

[triassictriserratops]

HANDS

Pride and Prejudice 2005 ☼ dir. Joe Wright

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"Chat what do I do the guy I hate just confessed their unyielding love to me"

Pride and prejudice screenshot redraw but not really, I drew them like how I felt like it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[didanagy]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

[arwen-evenstar]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir.: Joe Wright

[triassictriserratops]

"you know what, hating me is fair, I'll give you that - but defending HIM?????? ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT"

Darcy: She hates me, she hates me. Nothing I can do to fix that right now. But over my dead body, she'll like Wickham.

[tuserlivia]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005, dir. Joe Wright

[bennetsbonnet]

If Mrs Bennet was indeed the only one 'doing something about the situation' like I often see argued when Pride and Prejudice is discussed... surely she would have spent frugally to ensure her daughters had substantial dowries? Surely she would have employed governesses to educate her daughters to ensure they had the accomplishments necessary to enable them make a successful marriage? Surely she would not have relied on desperate schemes to throw her daughters in front of eligible men and instead allowed them to be judged on their merits?

And yet...

We are told in Chapter 50 that Mrs Bennet has 'no turn for economy,' and only Mr Bennet (a waste of space himself, mind you) prevents them from exceeding their income,

Elizabeth tells Lady Catherine in Chapter 29 that 'we never had any governess' and that 'those who chose to be idle, certainly might.' So even in the absence of having someone around at Longbourn who was entirely dedicated to the girls' education, no pressure was exerted upon them to study... and Elizabeth smilingly reassures Lady Catherine that Mrs Bennet was not a slave to their education,

In Chapter 18, thanks to 'a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet,' the party are the last to depart after the Netherfield ball and 'had to wait for their carriage a quarter of an hour after everybody else was gone.' Which is not only rude but highly embarrassing... but she really wanted Bingley and Jane to spend a few extra minutes together, just to make sure...

As you see, there were plenty of opportunities for Mrs Bennet to ensure her daughters were better prepared to find husbands. Yes, in marrying Mr Bennet, she married 'up,' and so might not have had these advantages herself (and Mr Bennet does share some of the blame).

But it's honestly somewhat of a miracle that Jane and Elizabeth turned out so well and were able to make such good marriages, even in spite of such a calamitous upbringing...

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

lmaooo how did I forget that Elizabeth's go-to annoyance curse on people who displease her is to hope they marry someone miserable?

We all remember that she sees Anne de Bourgh and is like "yes perfect she'll make Mr Darcy miserable" but how did I forget that she wishes BINGLEY miserable at one point too?!

"This letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned, as she considered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least. All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. She would not even wish for any renewal of his attentions. His character sunk on every review of it; and, as a punishment for him, as well as a possible advantage to Jane, she seriously hoped he might really soon marry Mr. Darcy’s sister, as, by Wickham’s account, she would make him abundantly regret what he had thrown away."

[daisyfield98]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[linusbenjamin]

Pride and Prejudice S1.E2 | 1995 Adapted by Andrew Davies

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Mr. Darcy is my little meow meow

[taradactyls]

Found something interesting for Pride and Prejudice fans relating to Elizabeth's takedown of Mr Darcy's perception of himself a gentleman.

I'm reading Thomas Fuller's 'The Holy State, and the Profane State' (published 1642 but this version republished in 1841 so the views were clearly still applicable) for a research essay, and in the chapter labelled 'The True Gentleman' he states:

He is courteous and affable to his neighbours … the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behaviour to their inferiors.

And of course, during the Hunsford proposal, Darcy has just objected to Elizabeth's family, she's called him out, and we get the iconic lines:

"Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?—to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."

So Elizabeth drops that bomb just after he's been ungenerous and discourteous about her inferior relations... in direct contradiction of one of the rules of true gentlemanly behaviour. No wonder he can't rebut her words at all in the moment, even though Darcy later says "it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice." He might not believe he's got a real problem yet, but there's been examples Elizabeth could call on from even during the course of their conversation too blatant for him to disagree with entirely!

And then later, obviously, he reflects and finds it's true he also hasn't been gentlemanlike in this and other ways in too many aspects of his life.

[bloomsbury]

sketching my girls 🎀🌷👒🍂

[soraya-snape]

There's a spectrum of men being told by their crush that they are bad people.

On the one side we have Fitzwilliam Darcy, who, after Elizabeth told him he is a bad person, reflects on it and changes on his own, without being sure if Elizabeth will ever give him a second chance.

And on the other side we have James Potter, who, after Lily told him he is a bad person first tries to blackmail her into dating him, then threatens to hex her and later even threatens to take off someone's underwear in front of a crowd (and probably also does it).