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didanagy · 5 months

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Pride and prejudice (2005)

dir. joe wright

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fictionadventurer · 4 months

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The modern-day version of Mary Bennet would be chronically online.

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bethanydelleman · 6 months

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Mary Bennet's Hinted Reformation

Two Bennet sisters remain unmarried at the close of Pride & Prejudice, we are assured that Kitty Bennet, the fourth sister and Lydia's former shadow, reforms under the careful care of Elizabeth and Jane, but what of Mary?

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet’s being quite unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters’ beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

These two highlighted passages give us a strong hint that Mary changes for the better. In the novel, Mary is shown as a rather unfeeling daughter, who in her family's moment of crisis, leaves Jane to take care of Mrs. Bennet while she studies. She also denigrates the pursuits of "other girls" to boost her own importance and is eager to show off to a crowd. However, she's only 18/19 years old and there is no reason to think she couldn't improve.

In the above passage, we see that she becomes a real companion to her mother. Assumably, she could have retreated to the library like her father and left Mrs. Bennet to fret alone, but she doesn't. I could see her learning to exercise real compassion and forbearance through that experience.

We can also assume that since she is no longer hurt by descriptions of her sister's beauty, she would probably drop her "pick me" affectations and her real personality would be able to shine through. No longer striving to set herself apart, she would become a much more enjoyable person to be around.

Austen is said to have told her family that Kitty married a clergyman near Pemberley and that Mary married a clerk in her uncle's practice and was the star of Meryton society. Not a bad ending for the middle Bennet sister.

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harmonizingsunsets · 7 months

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Pride & Prejudice Summarized by Taskmaster

Elizabeth and Darcy after their first meeting

Mrs. Bennet when Jane has to stay at Netherfield because she made her take the horse in the rain

Audience @ the hand flex moment

Mary playing the piano at Bingley's ball

Mr. Collins

Charlotte accepting Mr. Collins' proposal

Lizzie about Darcy after he calls the house charming and bolts

Darcy after the first proposal

Wickham scamming everybody for money

"You have bewitched me, body and soul. And I love, I love, I love you."

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nymphpens · 5 months

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green-mochi-blog · 1 year

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When we talk about Pride and Prejudice we always discuss the change and the work Darcy did on himself, which is fine, because it was a major change and for good, which helped him be a better person

But we never talk about the change Elizabeth had to make, and not just in herself, but in her whole fucking family!

That woman had to hear from the mouth of the person she hated the most that her family was ridiculous and the cause of her dearest sister's misfortunes and sadness, and she didn't want to believe it. All to return home and realize that Darcy was right, her family was a mess!

Lydia was a derailed, shameless child with no sense of responsibility, and Kitty, despite being older, was following in her footsteps

Mary, despite all the hours she put into her studies, had no sense of selfawareness and no common sense, which made her embarrassing at social events.

The mother was vain, gossipy, ignorant and impertinent, and more likely she used to be just like Lydia in her youth. Probably the reason why she encouraged such behavior.

And the father, the one person Lizzy adored so much, was not only aware of all these shortcomings, he allowed them and even entertained himself with the ridiculousness of his wife and daughters, without bothering to correct them or set limits, something that he found annoying and uncomfortable.

And Lizzy would have been well on her way to becoming just like him if it weren't for Darcy's criticism.

Lizzy understood that any chance of fortune and happiness in the future for her or her sisters would be undermined by her own family.

They had already done it with Jane, and would continue to do so if Lizzy did nothing about it, so not only did she have to correct her own behavior, she also had to make an attempt to correct that of her family, which was nearly impossible for her without the support of her father and Jane, and unable to reveal what she knew from Darcy

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #mr. darcy #jane bennet #lydia bennet #kitty bennet #mary bennet #jane austen #period drama #that family was a mess #poor lizzy had so much work to do #and completely alone

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amycolleenwrites · 10 months

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#cunk on earth #pride and Prejudice #mary bennet #jane austen

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terrie01 · 3 months

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Mary Bennet is the most underrated character in Pride and Prejudice. Like, she's not pretty, witty or lively like her sisters. She doesn't come with a built in companion like Jane and Elizabeth, or Kitty and Lydia. But she tries. Her parents provide minimal education for the girls. She's taught to read and to play the pianoforte. And from there, she tries to do better. She reads books to better her mind. Practices the pianoforte to learn to play more complicated pieces. And she's not good at it, but she tries, with no guidance.

According to "A Memoir of Jane Austen," written by her nephew, Mary went on to marry a clerk of her Uncle Phillips and lived out her life in Meryton. She married middle class, not a gentleman. But it would have been a steady, stable sort of life, without the stresses of having to produce a son to inherit. I think it would have suited her well.

I know Austen probably wrote Mary to caricature the sort of young woman at the time who tried to be more than she naturally was, and come across as smug and irritating as a result. But I think about how in modern times, Mary would be the sort to get really into theater, or the type to teach herself Klingon and Latin for fun. Just someone who would find a niche interest and get really into it, and find the tiny social circle that went with it, and been a little out of step with most people, but still happy.

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firawren · 6 months

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Caroline Bingley, Louisa Hurst, and Mr. Darcy watching Mary Bennet sing at the Netherfield ball:

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didanagy · 23 days

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

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queen-paladin · 11 months

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Mrs. Bennett Tevye

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High-stress levels from trying to marry off five daughters

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bethanydelleman · 7 months

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Mary Bennet and Fanny Price could not be more opposite.

Mary is a show-off, know-it-all who pushes herself to the front of the line. Fanny is a humble, shy, wise individual who would rather sit back and listen. Mary's thread-bare morality is parroted, self-serving, and misplaced, Fanny's deep analysis of the people around her produces true judgments that she is often too frightened and too dismissed to share.

Unlike Mary, Fanny feels deep compassion for people who mess up. She doesn't try to turn Maria into some weird object lesson like Mary does for Lydia. Fanny loves despite seeing faults. Fanny is helpful at her own expense while Mary shuts herself up for "study" while her family falls apart. When Fanny hears about the problems with the Bertram family she longs to be home to help.

Mary Bennet is nothing like Fanny Price and I will give my life on that hill until the end of time. If Fanny is like any Bennet sister, it's the one she shares modesty, compassion, and birth order with: Jane.

#jane austen #mansfield park #fanny price #pride and prejudice #fanny price defence squad #mary bennet #I am sure Mary will improve #But book Mary is not a nice person #You would HATE her if you met her

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where-our-stories-start · 1 year

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