'Analysis of Darcy’s first proposal to Elizabeth Essay\r'

'Look again at the Darcy’s first proposal to Elizabeth that is do in this novel. require at least two and, write responses to the pursuance questions:\r\n* under what circumstances does Darcy propose\r\n* how does Elizabeth respond and wherefore\r\n* how does Austen present the proposal to the reviewer\r\nThat evening, just before Mr. Darcy comes to meet Elizabeth , she rereads Jane’s letters and finds out Mr. Darcy’s ‘shameful boast’ of misery that inflicted Jane’s delight and it gives her a ‘keener sense of her baby’s sufferings’.\r\nTo Elizabeth’s ‘utter amazement’, Darcy enters the direction approaching her ‘in a hurried realityner’ enquiring after her health. He ‘sat for a few moments’, got up, and ‘walked about the room’. Mr. Darcy’s body language shows that he is flyaway and agitated. Then he took several minutes to enunciate his true respect for her that how ‘ardently’ he ‘admires’ and ‘loves’ her. However, the reader later palpableises that his nervousness is non due to his love for Elizabeth is so great but due to the hesitation, whether it is a good idea to propose considering the lower stance of her family and kindly background.\r\nMr. Darcy explains to Elizabeth that ‘in vain’ he has ‘struggled’ to ‘repress’ his feelings towards not to love her’ he expresses his love for her unro gentlemantically and was slight ‘eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of insolence’. He talks about ‘his sense of her inferiority’ and the ‘family obstacles which judgment had always opposed inclination’. He means that although he had loved her for a long date he knows that her family is beneath him. Mr. Darcy considered his wealth and status as ‘sufficient encouragement’ for Elizabeth to accept his relegate of coupling. Elizabeth ‘could see that he had no doubt of a indulgent answer ‘as he ‘ verbalise noush apprehension and anxiety’ although his ‘countenance expressed real security’.\r\nWhen Mr. Darcy first enters Elizabeth’s room, her ‘astonishment was beyond expression. She st ard, coloured, doubted and was silent’. Then Darcy tells Elizabeth how practically he loves her in spite of her ‘inferiority’ and her family’s degradation’. disrespect of her ‘deeply-rooted disfavor’ for Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth ‘could not be sensible to the praise of such a man’s sum’. She is flattered when she realises how much he loves her and ‘she is sorry for the pain he was to receive, but she ‘lost all compassion in anger’ with his subsequent criticism of her ‘family’s inferiority’ while asking her to marry him.\r\nAs Mr. Da rcy ‘ round with apprehension and anxiety, Elizabeth’s ‘colour rose to her cheeks’, she refuses Mr. Darcy and says that she could not ‘feel any gratitude’ towards his proposal and she has ‘never craved’ his good opinion. Mr. Darcy is furious and looks at her ‘with no less(prenominal) resentment than surprise. ‘His complexion became pale with anger, and he was assay for the appearance of composure’. He enquires ‘in a voice of forced calmness why she refused him ‘with so little endeavor at civility’\r\nElizabeth replies in a confrontational manner asking why he has spoken with ‘so evident a design of offending and insulting’ her by utter how much he loves her against his ‘will’, ‘reason’ and his ‘ image’. She uses this opportunity to express how her feelings have been hurt by his insulting comment. Furthermore, she goes on to explain that even if his feelings had been ‘favourable’ she would never marry a person who has ‘washed-up the happiness of a most beloved sister’.\r\nAlthough Darcy changed colour at this moment, he showed no feelings of contrition and listens ‘with a simile of affected incredulity’ as Elizabeth explains how he destroyed Jane’s happiness by splitting up Jane and Bingley. Mr. Darcy admits that he did ‘everything in his author to separate his partner from Elizabeth’s sister and he adds ‘to him (Mr. Bingley) I have been kinder than to myself’.\r\nThis ‘civil reflection’ of Mr. Darcy, which she disdained, was unconvincing to ‘conciliate her’. Elizabeth replies that Mr. Darcy’s interference in Jane and Bingley’s relationship was not the only reason for her heavy(a) opinion against him. She mentions what she had heard from Mr.Wickham. He responds to this ‘in a less tranquil tone and w ith heightened colour’. He answers that she taken ‘an eager interest’ in his concerns and Elizabeth accuses him of depriving Mr.Wickham, ‘the emancipation which was no less his due than his desert’. She is blow out of the water by seeing Mr. Darcy speaking of him ‘with contempt and jest at’.\r\nMr. Darcy’s says that ‘perhaps these offences might have been overlooked, had not your (Elizabeth) pride been hurt by my honest exculpation of the scruples that have long prevented my forming of any dangerous design’. This explains that he believes his honesty has made her forswear him and asks her ‘Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferior of your connections? To preen myself on the hope of my relations, whose conditions in life is so decidedly beneath my own?’\r\nJane Austen comments to the reader that Elizabeth ‘ mat up herself growing angrier every moment’. However, ‘she tried to t he uttermost(a) to speak with composure’. When she says to Mr. Darcy ‘you could not have made me the offer of your hand in any affirmable way that would have tempted me to accept it’, Mr. Darcy astonished by this remark and looks at her ‘with an expression of mingled incredulity and confusion’. She further comments that she disliked him from the very first time they met because of his ‘arrogance….conceit… self disdain of the feelings of other(a)s’.\r\nHer ‘immovable dislike’ has made her feel that he was ‘the last man in the world’ that she ‘could be prevailed to marry’. afterwards Mr. Darcy left, Jane Austen writes that Elizabeth cried for half an hour. It seems she felt it was ‘almost incredible’ that Mr. Darcy is so much in love as to appetite to marry her in spite of all the objections which had prevented his friend (Mr. Bingley) marrying her sister. She feels it w as ‘gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection’ but Elizabeth condemns Mr. Darcy’s ‘ awful pride’ and ‘his shameless avowal of what he had do with respect to Jane’ and Mr. Darcy’s ‘unfeeling manner’ when he spoke of Wickham.\r\nJane Austen portrays how men and women in her times considered marriage by dint of different characters in the novel. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s family especially shows that middle class women could not run; it would be seen as improper. Mrs. Bennet is desperate to abridge her daughters married to wealthy young men. This shows that p bents were very much involved when it came to their daughter’s marriage and would dramatic play a large role in finding a husband.\r\nJane Austen views love as the foundation for a happy marriage. This view is mainly portrayed through Darcy and Elizabeth’s marriage and this is thought be the outmatch marriage in the nov el along with Jane and Bingley’s marriage because they are well suited and they are pecuniaryly secure. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Lydia and Wickham and Charlotte and Mr. Collin’s marriages are viewed as corked marriages as their marriages lack the element of love that the other two good marriages have a plenty.\r\nJane Austen portrays that these marriages are bad due to lack of intelligence and wit that neither person has, the lack understanding and communion between each other in their married life. Lydia running away with Mr. Wickham without acquiring married was a big scandal in the novel. She was excluded from the society as she went against its traditional values of the society in those times. However, getting married reduced the shame slightly that was passed on to the family. Jane Austen shows the consequences that will occur to women who live together with a man without getting married.\r\nCharlotte married Mr. Collin because she felt she was already a burden for her family and this would be a tender embarrassment. Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet’s closest phallic who will inherit his estate, which meant that he had definite financial security. This marriage shows that there was a lot of tweet on women like Charlotte from society. She is influenced to marry a man for financial security, protection and a house of her own.\r\n'