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Women's Literature 37 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice - Why did Lizzy Marry Mr. Darcy? 32 Views


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Mr. Darcy might seem like a short-tempered hermit man, and he kind of still is... but he also turns out to be a pretty okay guy.

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Thank you We sneak Jane austen pride and prejudice why

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did lizzie marry mr darcy Eyelash first there's a scandal

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she's in trouble Or more specifically lydia bennet her sister's

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in trouble Lydia is a big flirt Eventually runs off

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with a man and that's just an incredible scandal There's

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almost no way to recover from that improves perhaps once

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and for all that the entire bennett family isn't to

00:32

be trusted And they're not married at this point right

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No they're not worried So the fact that they've been

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sleeping in the same quarters but haven't married means that

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it's an emergency that they get married because if not

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everything is ruined the entire social order has been upset

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And who knows what could happen Children death certainly certainly

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no marriages right away just for the other daughter right

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Exactly So during this time elizabeth goes on a trip

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with her uncle and hot they go to derbyshire And

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while she's there she runs into who else but mr

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darcy who at this point seems a little different than

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us before it's also funny because this is this moment

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where she comes in and sees a state before seeing

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him So there's this amazing scene where she's walking through

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his estate and commenting basically just on how well managed

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this and she talks the servants and the servants are

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really fond of him And he falls in love with

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him through his products Right she's like wow like a

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man that can put this together and committed this much

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respect from the people working under him must really be

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worth something and that's once they could actually be a

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wonderful match because they both have this incredible sense of

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management and warner and wanting pieces to fit together and

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making sure that happened and making a home right actually

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managing a household there Similarly minded it's Pretty incredible And

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so then in the nick of time mr darcy comes

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home early He was off visiting a friend but surprise

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he's back at home when it turns out he's actually

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credibly kind Polite friendly respectful as he said his servants

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love him And so lizzie has pushed even more to

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change her mind about him When he comes back He's

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actually found lydia bribed the guy into marrying her It

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turns out that the whole reason let this good for

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nothing has run off With his sister is to get

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money from the family so he's extorting the family for

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money Mr darcy swoops and gives him the money gets

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not all there It comes back and the super discrete

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about it So we learned that actually he's doing this

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kind of out of the goodness of his heart preserving

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the whole families reputations So then lizzie's faced with this

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situation which actually if he had hurt the family's honor

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before he has now saved it from a cataclysmic disaster

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And so she feels a debt to him but more

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powerful E She also feels love for him so everything

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matches up This economic exchange can take place this kind

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of social exchange where lizzie's in darcy's debt takes place

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but also there's love which one wins there An equal

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match and they can't get married What threat did lydia

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running off with mr wickham posed to the bennett family

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who fixed lydia situation How did lizzie learn about mr

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darcy's Good character And they all lived happily ever after 00:03:19.256 --> [endTime] Except mr collins

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