What did you think of Mr. Collins in the Pride and Prejudice?Personally he seems like he's just interested in Miss Elizabeth because of her father's property. Since the property is entailed, Collins seemed to be just an opportunist out to make money until he married Elizabeth's best friend. To me, he married the later girl because his pride was damaged after the denied proposal by Elizabeth.
I think Mr. Collins is interested in pleasing people (especially Lady Catherine) and appearing successful in front of other people. One of his measures of success is getting a wife - it doesn't seem to matter terribly who it is, just as long as he gets one that Lady Catherine will approve of. When Elizabeth rejects him, it is easy enough for him to transfer his advances to another woman since none of his true feelings were wrapped up with her to begin with.
How do you feel about Mr. Bennet treatment of Wickham and Lydia after they married? Do you think Mr. Bennet had just cause to treat them that coldly, being that he has distanced himself from the entire family?
My. Bennet does act a little coldly towards Wickham and Lydia. True, what she did nearly ruined their entire family's reputation- but considering he was the one apathetic enough to let her go in the first place, he takes very little (if any) responsibility for what she's done. Perhaps if he would have paid her more attention in the first place, she wouldn't have felt the need to act out quite as much.
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