Language In Clarissa, Evelina And Pride And Prejudice

naYve women like Miss Darcy, Elizabeth, Mrs. Bennet, Miss
King, and finally, Lydia.
Conclusion
In Pride and Prejudice, Austen accentuates the
foibles of strict settlement and its language. Darcy
shines magnificently in the glow of his ten thousand a
year and Pemberley. He can afford to glow, for strict
settlement and inheritance practices have worked well for
him. The men on the fringe, Mr. Bennet, Collins, and
Wickham, paint a picture of what happens with everyday
people touched by the same laws that are meant to benefit
the landed gentry and the aristocracy.
Mr. Bennet is an inheritor, but he has a non-
removable entail. He followed acceptable practice when
he resettled his estate, for he was sure he would have a
son. Social and family pressure worked on him to repeat
the entail. The Bennet marriage is a paradigm of
eighteenth-century standards. He marries Mrs. Bennet for
beauty and four thousand pounds, and she marries him for
position and comfort. As both objectives begin to fade,
the marriage does as well.