Sunday, April 20, 2008

Relationship of Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most successful novel of Jane Austin. She wrote this novel more than two hundred years ago but it is still very popular in the world. The main reason behind its popularity is that Pride and Prejudice deals with something that is common to every society. Jane Austin has dealt with the subject of love and marriage and this something that is relevant to every society in every age. In our modern age, the matter of love and marriage has become more important because of media promotion all the time. The hero of the novel is Darcy and the heroin of the novel is Elizabeth. However, two other characters have got almost equal important from Jane Austin. They are Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingly.

Jane Bennet is the eldest of the Bennet sisters. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and sister of Elizabeth. In the novel she is 22 years old and at the first part of the novel Jane gets a lot of importance from the author. In fact, Jane Austin has created this character into her own name. At the first, it is seen that Jane is the most beautiful girl among her sisters. She was also the prettiest girls who were present in the dancing party. She catches the eye of Mr. Bingley who comes from neighborhood. Mr. Bingley was considered to be an attractive man for all the young girls and their parents. He liked Jane and danced with Jane more than one time.

Charles Bingley was one year older than Jane. He is only 23 years old but a rich man and he was a friend of Darcy. At the beginning of the novel, a lot of attention is given by Jane Austin to Mr. Bingley. In fact, if we read first two or three chapters then we may have this idea that Charles Bingley is the hero of this novel. He likes Jane because Jane is beautiful and also Jane has good behavior.

If we want to talk about Jane and Bingley’s relationship then we should also talk about two other characters: Elizabeth and Darcy. Elizabeth had a lot of influence over her sister Jane. Elizabeth was younger than Jane but she was more matured and more intelligent. At the same time, she tried to convince that Jane should not be too much good with everyone. Whenever Jane needs some consulting she goes to Elizabeth and Elizabeth gives her good advice. On the other hand, Darcy is the closet friend of Mr. Bingley. Darcy also had the same kind of influence on Mr. Bingley that Elizabeth had on Jane.

Jane and Bingley fell in love with each other. I think the main reason is that the two characters have a lot of similarities between them. For example, Mr. Bingley is a gentle man and Jane is a gentle girl. Jane is very friendly with others and she always has good idea about other people. Even others are intolerable, she is patient and she tries not to look at the bad sides of other people and look only at the good sides. Mr. Bingley has almost the same ideas and he is also friendly and he likes to meet with other people. The relationship of Jane and Mr. Bingley had a smooth progress. Sometimes, there were some problems but most of the time it did not have any problem. For example, at first Bingley likes Jane and then this relationship became stronger but Bingley had to leave the area and suddenly there was a distance but in the end again Bingley came to Jane and relationship grew stronger. One important thing to note here is that Jane and Bingley had never any serious argument or quarrel. Their relationship was more influenced by outside people. The good thing about Jane was that Bingley’s sister did not dislike Jane although they disliked the family of Jane. They could not tolerate the bold attitude of Elizabeth.

In the end, we can say that the relationship between Bingley and Jane was a lovely and smooth one. Sometimes, it got boring for the readers as they did not have any fighting.

19 comments:

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  2. Anonymous1:29 AM

    If im in the situation of the owner of this blog. I dont know how to post this kind of topic. he has a nice idea.

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  3. Anonymous11:21 AM

    I would just like to inform you that this article was PAINFUL for me to read! Not only did you spell the author's name wrong (it is spelt austEn), but your gramma is appalling and the evidence you have suggested in the blog is also incorrect! Jane and Bingley did NOT have a smooth start to their relationship (that was the whole point) and by no means whatsoever was it boring!!

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  4. Anonymous11:54 PM

    like i said your grammar is outrageous
    but most importantly:

    I LIKE CHEESE

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  5. Anonymous11:56 PM

    that blog was stupendous!

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  6. Anonymous12:31 AM

    The relation of Elizabeth and Darcy is also affected by the relation of Jane and Charles Bingley. From the beginning of the novel, we can find that Elizabeth does not have good idea about Mr. Darcy. She has wrong idea about Darcy. In the middle of the novel, there is little progress between these two characters. Later, when Elizabeth comes to know that for Darcy, Mr. Bingley does not try to contact with Jane after going back to city then she becomes angrier towards Darcy. Even she does not accept Mr. Darcy’s marriage proposal. She thinks that it is impossible to marry that person who is responsible for destroying her sister’s life. Darcy likes Elizabeth and wants to marry but for his wrong judgment towards Bingley and Jane, Elizabeth rejects him.

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  7. Anonymous5:20 AM

    Okay...Im about to see this play downtown of my state and I have recently read the book and completely disagree with the facts provided in this blog...outragous...*sighs* you need to do a better job.
    Thank You

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  8. Anonymous12:48 AM

    chill out dudes

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  9. Anonymous11:06 AM

    Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now. Keep it up!
    And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! :)

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  10. Anonymous2:46 AM

    I can't take you seriously, sorry. You spelled 'Jane Austen' wrong consistently. If you can't even bother to get the author's name correct, I'm not going to bother reading your opinion on the book.

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  11. Anonymous11:01 AM

    it doesnt matter how you spell the name or grammar, he has tried to tell his opinion and has helped me out. who cares about the rest. anonymous, shutup your annoying!

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  12. Anonymous12:20 AM

    useful for my studies.thanks

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  13. Anonymous6:21 AM

    koollllllllllllllllll

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  14. Anonymous1:02 AM

    people are so serious...I think its great that you are giving your point of view on this novel. A helpful tip though when writing, you should rather state that it is your opinion by saying things like it seems that.... or in my opinion....for example It is my opinion that Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austens......

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  15. Anonymous8:22 PM

    this is really good and helpful thank you

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  16. it's not Jane Austen by the way...
    but i liked it,thx

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  17. it's not Jane Austen by the way...
    but i liked it,thx

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  18. Anonymous10:57 PM

    jane austen. very informal but ok otherwise.

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