Language In Clarissa, Evelina And Pride And Prejudice

from the business, the upper, merchant class (Bellamy
75).
Elizabeth Bennet is struck by the estate of which
she "might have been mistress," and by the realization
that "to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!"
(202, 201). Until she comes upon Pemberley, Elizabeth
Bennet discounts the wealth and inheritance of
Fitzwilliam Darcy. When she see what power, wealth and
inheritance bring and sees the responsibility Darcy must
bear because of his inheritance, she begins to understand
the prudence of striving for both Darcy and his estate.
Many of the lessons in eighteenth-century
inheritance literature comes from the characteristics and
actions of its characters. Comparisons between our
characters and their actions abound. For instance,
Evelina's mother is silent through her absence, but she
speaks through the letters she left with Villars. More
importantly, she speaks through Evelina's stunning
resemblance to her. Villars, however, regulates both
mother's and daughter's power to speak through the
patriarchal powers as surrogate father, guardian to both.
Elizabeth Bennet's mother can speak, but the more she
speaks, the less she says. She is rendered silent