Character Notes #2 - Dec. 18

Caroline -
Adjectives: jealous, spiteful, envious, supercilious, vain, privileged, conceited, intimidated/intimidating, vigilant??
Sins: envy, greed, anger, lust, pride
Virtues: NONE, maybe love for Darcy but for bad reasons
Purpose: she represents upper class, foil for elizabeth, conflict towards elizabeth and darcy relationship
Quotes: "Convinced as Elizabeth now was, that Miss Bingley's dislike for her had orginated in jealousy, she could not help feeling how very unwelcome her appearance at Pemberly must be to her"
"How very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy," she cried; "I never in my life saW ANY ONE SO MUCH ALTERED AS SHE IS SINCE the winter. She is grown so brown and coarse! Louis and I were agreeing that we should not have known her again" pg.257

Mary-
Adjectives:plain, impertenent, self confident, useless, inappropriate, disagreeable
Sins:pride
Virtues: temperance
Purpose: opposite of a ideal woman of the time, comic relief
Quotes:''Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how"(7)
"she seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all"(21)

Lady Catherine
Adjectives: nosey, entitled, rude, old-fashioned, demanding, critical self-righteous
Sins: pride
Virtues: charity
Purpose: demonstrate the societal expectations and norms at the time and her character is used to explore themes of gender roles, class and societal norms - pinnacle of society - enforcing the rules, leadership- inverse relationship between rank and "class"/character
Quotes: "I would've been a great proficient if only if I had learned." "She likes to distinction of rank preserved." "I suppose you had no opportunity, your mother should've taken you into town every spring for the benefit of masters."

Collins
Adjectives: absurd, ignorant, careless, rude, unkind
Sins: pride
Virtues: prudent
Purpose: To be a foil to Darcy and to show how powerful men are in this society. Also comic relief.
Quotes: "Mr. Collins was not sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society." (66)
"The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this." (282)

Darcy
Adjectives: pride, wealthy, handsome, rude, misjudged, stoic, gentleman, fair, suspicious, taciturn, introverted, imperious, "above being pleased," stand-offish, witty, fastidious, haughty Sins: pride,
Virtues: charity, temperance, prudence, love, fortitude
Purpose: Represents pride personified, male lead attracts female readers, shows Elizabeth how she is blinded by pride and prejudice.
Exposes theme of importance of wealth, status, and society's expectations.

"She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me." (11)
"Yes vanity is a weakness indeed; but pride - where there is a real superiority of mind,
Pride will be always under good regulations." (54)
"Yes but that was only when I first knew her, for it has been months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance." (258)