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Women's Literature 37 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice - Why did Lizzy Marry Mr. Darcy? 32 Views
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Mr. Darcy might seem like a short-tempered hermit man, and he kind of still is... but he also turns out to be a pretty okay guy.
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Thank you We sneak Jane austen pride and prejudice why
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did lizzie marry mr darcy Eyelash first there's a scandal
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she's in trouble Or more specifically lydia bennet her sister's
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in trouble Lydia is a big flirt Eventually runs off
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with a man and that's just an incredible scandal There's
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almost no way to recover from that improves perhaps once
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and for all that the entire bennett family isn't to
- 00:32
be trusted And they're not married at this point right
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No they're not worried So the fact that they've been
- 00:37
sleeping in the same quarters but haven't married means that
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it's an emergency that they get married because if not
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everything is ruined the entire social order has been upset
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And who knows what could happen Children death certainly certainly
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no marriages right away just for the other daughter right
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Exactly So during this time elizabeth goes on a trip
- 00:58
with her uncle and hot they go to derbyshire And
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while she's there she runs into who else but mr
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darcy who at this point seems a little different than
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us before it's also funny because this is this moment
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where she comes in and sees a state before seeing
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him So there's this amazing scene where she's walking through
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his estate and commenting basically just on how well managed
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this and she talks the servants and the servants are
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really fond of him And he falls in love with
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him through his products Right she's like wow like a
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man that can put this together and committed this much
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respect from the people working under him must really be
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worth something and that's once they could actually be a
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wonderful match because they both have this incredible sense of
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management and warner and wanting pieces to fit together and
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making sure that happened and making a home right actually
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managing a household there Similarly minded it's Pretty incredible And
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so then in the nick of time mr darcy comes
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home early He was off visiting a friend but surprise
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he's back at home when it turns out he's actually
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credibly kind Polite friendly respectful as he said his servants
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love him And so lizzie has pushed even more to
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change her mind about him When he comes back He's
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actually found lydia bribed the guy into marrying her It
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turns out that the whole reason let this good for
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nothing has run off With his sister is to get
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money from the family so he's extorting the family for
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money Mr darcy swoops and gives him the money gets
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not all there It comes back and the super discrete
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about it So we learned that actually he's doing this
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kind of out of the goodness of his heart preserving
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the whole families reputations So then lizzie's faced with this
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situation which actually if he had hurt the family's honor
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before he has now saved it from a cataclysmic disaster
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And so she feels a debt to him but more
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powerful E She also feels love for him so everything
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matches up This economic exchange can take place this kind
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of social exchange where lizzie's in darcy's debt takes place
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but also there's love which one wins there An equal
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match and they can't get married What threat did lydia
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running off with mr wickham posed to the bennett family
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who fixed lydia situation How did lizzie learn about mr
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darcy's Good character And they all lived happily ever after 00:03:19.256 --> [endTime] Except mr collins
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