Mr Collins and the lucas family
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- Created on: 02-05-18 09:56
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- Mr Collins and the Lucas family
- Mr Collins is a pompous snob
- Comedy character, E and her father enjoy laughing at his "pompous" and "narrow minded" attitude. his attempts to make a good impressions are by constantly complimenting everyone he meets are clearly ridiculous
- He only says what he thinks others want to hear making him sound fake and sycophantic eg admits to spreading time thinking up "elegant compliments"
- Often repeast the same ideas, eg "to follow the dictates of my conscience... to perform what i look on as a point of duty". This makes him sound boring and unintelligent
- Austen uses language to show this
- Often repeast the same ideas, eg "to follow the dictates of my conscience... to perform what i look on as a point of duty". This makes him sound boring and unintelligent
- In Austen' day some landowners could choose their own vicar, meaning vicars weren't always chosen for moral or religious reasons and some were completely unsuitable
- Austen uses Mr collins to satirise this practice. his attitude is unchristian- he is materialistic snobby and unforgiving
- Austen uses him to saterise people who put too much importance on social status . He doesn't see Lady C's rudeness and snobbery but he thinks she is wonderful just because she is a rich aristocrat
- Charlotte Lucas marries him for financial security
- Charlotte contrasts Lizzy with her pragmatic unromantic approach to marriage, her decision reveal a social pressure on woman to get married
- views marriage as "the only provision for well-educated young woman of a small fortune" . Mr Collins can give her a comfortable life so she doesn't care that he is annoying
- E is disappointed and upset that Charlotte can marry for purely practical reasons -she thinks that it will be impossible for her to be "to be tolerably happy"
- Austen's opinions on marriage is less clear-cut. it is left to the reader to decide if Charlotte's "evident enjoyment" in her house is worth the burden of having a husband she avoids "as much as possible"
- Charlotte's family is not as sensible as she is
- Austen uses the Lucas family to reinforce her message about snobbery of Recency society
- Sir William Lucas was a businessman but he was given a knighthood and now he thinks that he has to act like a gentry. He and his daughter are overwhelmed by Lady Catherine. Her social status affects their judgement so they so they don't realize how rude she is. Showing her prejudices about class and wealth
- Austen uses the Lucas family to reinforce her message about snobbery of Recency society
- Mr Collins is a pompous snob
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