Language In Clarissa, Evelina And Pride And Prejudice

final bequest of Caroline Evelyn as the legal gateway to
becoming Evelina' s de facto parent.
Villars' own background lends him the ability and
character to raise three generations of Evelyns, but his
efforts in the first two cases fail, and the third
succeeds despite him. Mr. Villars is a product of his
own family inheritance, while the language of his own
family situation endows his actions as he raised the
Evelyn generations. As a younger son, he is destined to
raise daughters in the same way he was raised, not
considering Evelina as the potential heiress she is, but,
more as an abandoned bastard. Because inheritance is
beyond him, he believes it beyond his charge.
Pride and Prejudice offers a different problem of
inheritance, but one that surely arose with some
frequency in eighteenth-century families and one that
affects one only our heroine, but also her father. The
Harlowe men are despicable and are portrayed as such.
Mr. Villars has a questionable character, but he
generally is loved. Mr. Bennet, however, is a good and
just man with a generally bad reputation. Even his
favorite, Elizabeth, recounts his bad points. He is
indolent and lackadaisical in his duties; his wife is the