Pride and Prejudice Characters

Elizabeth Bennet may not look much like Frodo Baggins of Lord of the Rings, but she too is pulled into a quest in which a ring is central. Marriage is the key to happiness – or at least that's wh...

A haughty aristocrat who owns the Pemberley estate, Darcy has trouble seeing the value in those beneath his social standing. Still, the ladies love him. Last we checked, Facebook had over 400 group...

A kind, sweet, quiet young woman, the oldest Bennet sister is Elizabeth's best friend and is in love with Charles Bingley.Jane probably wins "Most Saintly" in the Pride and Prejudice yearbook. She...

Darcy's best friend is a nice guy who is a little too easily manipulated by his friends.Before we really dive into Bingley, go back and reread Book 1, Chapter 10, when Darcy and Elizabeth have thei...

A seemingly perfect gentleman from a poor family, Wickham turns out to be the Bennet family's worst nightmare.Pride and Prejudice has a lot of compare-and-contrast pairs, if you're into that sort o...

Charlotte is Elizabeth Bennet's best friend. She's introduced as a "sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven" (5.2). So Charlotte's principle characteristics, we're told in that first...

The boorish, pompous, and ridiculous heir to the entailed Bennet estate, Mr. Collins is also a clergyman whose parish is in the estate of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. (What's that? You're not impresse...

Having made a life-changing mistake in marrying his wife, Mr. Bennet is now a sarcastic and generally distant father and husband.Pride and Prejudice is about nothing if it isn't about consequences....

You think your mother's embarrassing? She's got nothing on Mrs. Bennet. Mrs. Bennet is a small-minded, vulgar woman with no sense of social tact, and she constantly offers up too much information....

There's been some controversy about Lady Catherine's character. On the page, she is this awesome caricature of a grande dame – just a totally overbearing, domineering woman who has always gotten...

A boy-crazy, totally unselfconscious teenager, the youngest Bennet sister runs off with Mr. Wickham, who is later forced to marry her.We've said it before, and we'll say it again. The fact that a y...

Caroline has two modes. Mode one we'll call sucking-up-to-Darcy. She's totally hot for him, and he couldn't care less about her, so basically she just hangs on his every word and compliments his ev...

Georgiana is Mr. Darcy's painfully shy and sweetly malleable sister. It makes sense that Wickham was able to fool the girl into thinking herself in love with him. Ten years younger than Darcy, she...

Mary and Kitty are the other Bennet sisters, neither of whom are super-developed as characters. Honestly, it's probably for the best, since there are enough Bennets in this novel already. Mary is a...

Besides giving Elizabeth and Jane some much needed parental figures – seriously, those two need at least one sane and involved adult in their lives, right? – the Gardiners can also be seen as p...