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Thank you We sneak Jane austen pride and prejudice the

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plot alas shmoop we start off introduced to the bennetts

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as you said mr renate this is bennett on the

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five dollars basically all of these girls need to be

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married at some point But we're mostly at this point

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dealing with two older ones lizzie and her sister jane

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Mr collins has entered the scene He's the cousin And

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he is the number one choice for everyone Because he's

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the one that's going to inherit the house as the

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closest male relative When mr bennet dies it's going to

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go to him So if we can get mr collins

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married till in the minute daughters then the house will

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stay in the bennett family Mr collin Marry someone else

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Then none of the bennett dollars are going to get

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so mr collins is an amazing choice except that he's

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a total fool And lizzie kate's him immediately upon me

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So there's a big problem And unfortunately he's taken a

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liking to her So it's just a sad situation where

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she's probably trying to deflect his attention And for whatever

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reason he's decided that lizzy is the one Lizzie also

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has another option which is mr darcy he's classic dark

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and handsome and brooding man He himself is quite cutting

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and mean and he enters the picture because he's friends

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with mr bingley who has his eyes set on jane

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so mr bingley's actually like a solid dude somewhat naive

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but more or less a nice guy way get the

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since early on that lizzie's attracted to mr darcy that

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there's a woman attraction that goes both ways but it's

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not clear that they're actually interested in pursuing something that

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just kind of friz als there for a while And

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then it turns out that mr darcy has this fatal

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flaw which is that he's quite mean and he doesn't

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like the bennett family he doesn't respect act them and

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in fact he warns mr bingley away from them which

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is a move that basically ruins jane's prospects Another reason

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that mr darcy he warns mr bingley away from them

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is because there's a sense that the girls haven't been

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properly controlled by a mother because their mothers out the

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picture the daughters aren't always doing the most proper things

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The big issue is lydia who's this big flirt into

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mr darcy kind of latches onto as an indication that

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the family isn't sufficiently well bred So again we have

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this situation where the fate of all of the sisters

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is deeply connect get it right If one of them

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shames the family all of them might be unable to

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get a husband it's contradicted when darcy does propose to

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lizzie bennett so eventually he comes around and decide that

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he could marry her But she says we know that's

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a crazy moment because he would think this would be

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a perfect resolution This is the right long term solution

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for her and her family isn't it She gets married

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they get to be wealthy everyone is taken care of

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bye but she says no she says no because she

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doesn't like that he's mean basically she's not ready to

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take him on as a partner when he's betrayed her

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family first allegiance is to her family She also we

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didn't mention she rejected mr collins explicitly right And that

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i was obviously coming Yeah mr collins pop the question

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she was like do we really have to do this

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on Said basically you know you wouldn't be happy if

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he has a wife I'm sorry With mr darcy is

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a totally different story It's not about what she wants

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or like Whether they would be happy as a couple

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is about her defending the honor of the family in

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some ways taking on a very masculine role What dilemma

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does the bennett family face regarding their house How can

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the bennett family solve their housing problem Who are mr

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collins and mr darcy There was a story of a 00:03:45.372 --> [endTime] man a man in it

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