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strangerpsychofficeparks · 1 year

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Freaking love Chris Traeger and Ben Wyatt's friendship because they're literally just the modern day version of Charles "golden retriever" Bingley and Fitzwilliam "constipated turtle" Darcy

#parks and recreation #parks and rec #michael schur #mike schur #greg daniels #chris traeger #ben wyatt #darcy #bingley #fitzwilliam darcy #charles bingley #pride and prejudice #chris and ben #ben and chris #darcy and bingley #bingley and darcy

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whetstonefires · 11 months

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You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

#hoc est meum #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #charlotte lucas #meta #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie #so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her!#she also has more patience for people being wrong #partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother #people have different needs like that's a thing okay #marriage #spinsterhood #pragmatism #like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage #he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically #also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan #darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley #she ofc does not bring this up how could she #but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

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checkoutmybookshelf · 8 months

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This was too good not to share, and I am now putting out into the world the desire for an animated, animal friends version of Pride and Prejudice that does EXACTLY THIS. It would be AMAZING.

For anyone interested in the original: https://www.tumblr.com/pagerunner/191002786668/pride-prejudice-2005-dir-joe-wright

I found the screengrab on pinterest originally, so give the OG poster a like too!

#classic literature memes #literature memes #pride and prejudice #mr. bingley #mr. darcy #elizabeth bennet #regency novel #regency romance #jane austen

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firawren · 6 months

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Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ?

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

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horriblehistorieschild · 2 years

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#i laughed way too much at this #pride and prejudice #mr bingley #mr darcy #jane austen

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aftermyownart · 21 days

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Get Wrecked, Caroline!

From that thing I have watched a few too many times. This is definitely how that went

#amoa #art diary #sketchbook #digital drawing #digital art #clip studio paint #CSP #P&P 1995 #pride and prejudice #Elizabeth Bennet #jane austen #Fitzwilliam Darcy #caroline bingley

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buddyhollyscurls · 23 days

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Trying to sleep and was looking at books and that eventually led me to think of Pride and Prejudice and yk what moment we need to appreciate more?

That scene where Caroline is doing her pick me shit and joking with Darcy about Elizabeth's pretty eyes and she's like when you guys get your marriage portrait done do you think any painter could do her eyes justice?

And our boy Fitzy doesn't even HESITATE he's like I think a painter would do a great job at getting her eyelashes and the way they look in the sunlight and it's just like

MY GUY HAD U ALREADY BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT??? U HAD THE ANSWER LOCKED AND LOADED WERE U ON YE OLDE GOOGLE LOOKING UP WEDDING PORTRAIT ARTISTS NEAR ME??? DID U HAVE A REGENCY ERA PINTERST BOARD OF UR DREAM WEDDING TO LIZZY ALREADY MADE UP????

#its even funnier bc this is the stage where hes like i don't LOVE Elizabeth Bennet i just think she's attractive #meanwhile he has wedding planner and caterer contacts scribbled and kept on a piece of paper in his pocket #he also writes mr. Elizabeth Bennet in his journal a thousand times before bed #pride and prejudice #caroline bingley #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #jane austen

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efarttt · 11 months

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has this been done before?? probably yes but im too scared to check since i already drew this out

so anyway here's finally some non-phantom art

#pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 2005 #jane austen #mr bingley #mr darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #charles bingley #austen adaptations #barbie movie #barbie mugshot meme #barbie meme

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 7 months

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i just got to the part of pride & prejudice in like. chapter 34 when mr. darcy goes to lizzy and says "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." and um. yeah if I were a girl in the regency era reading this for the first time right as it was published they would've sent me to the seaside to treat my hysteria

#NO BC LIKE IT'S NOT LIKE A MOVIE WHERE THE WHOLE FOCUS IS THE BOTH OF THEM PACKED IN 90 MINS #THE BOOK IS SO EPISODIC & CENTERED IN LIZZY'S POINT OF VIEW THAT AS YOU FOLLOW ALONG IN THE MUNDANE DAY-TO-DAY #ONGOINGS & THE DRAMA AROUND COLLINS AND HER SISTER & MR BINGLEY #THAT YOU'RE *JUST AS SURPRISED* AS ELIZABETH WHEN DARCY RUSHES IN AND TELLS HER #pride and prejudice #mine #if you followed me for witch3r content too fucking bad it's classic lit time

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nymphpens · 11 months

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At a social gathering:

#nymphpens #dark academia #poets on tumblr #dead poets society #relatable #tumblr text post #classic literature #pride and prejudice #barbie 2023 #barbie x classic literature #barbie memes #classic literature memes #jane Austen #mr bingley #mr darcy

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greengableslover · 1 year

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For a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Yes, he must indeed! And who better than one of our five girls?

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995) dir. Simon Langton | Episode 1

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didanagy · 5 months

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Pride and prejudice (2005)

dir. joe wright

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thoumpingground · 8 months

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So I've been pondering on how the Darcy-Bingley friendship came to be for a while, and like most people, I imagine that it was Bingley driven. I have now decided that when Bingley met Darcy - haughty, moody, catty man - he either unconsciously or explicitly reminded him of Caroline. "I must befriend him, he feels like home".

#I fundamentally oppose “charles hates caroline” narratives #charles' heart is full of love and it uses caroline's hard edges to play parkour #and caroline loves him too #under that heavy layer of disdain lies a hard core of affection #“i just want you to take things more seriously charlie”#they're very different #they're not friends #but they have a sibling bond #charles bingley #caroline bingley #mr darcy #pride and prejudice #jane austen

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bethanydelleman · 11 months

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Fitzwilliam Darcy 🤝 Caroline Bingley 🤝 Elizabeth Bennet 🤝 Jane Bennet 🤝 Mr. Bennet 🤝 Lady Catherine 🤝 Charles Bingley 🤝 Mrs. Bennet

Being completely flabbergasted that Fitzwilliam Darcy loves Elizabeth Bennet

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #a bit of silliness #Fitzwilliam Darcy #elizabeth bennet #caroline bingley #charles bingley #everyone is shocked #except maybe Charlotte #it was a big surprise to Darcy too!

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firawren · 15 days

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