The most difficult and interesting relationship was Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet is the second daughter of Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth is the most intelligent and sensible of the five Bennet sisters. She is knowledgeable and quick-witted. Mr. Darcy is a wealthy gentleman, the master of Pemberley, and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Though Darcy is intelligent and honest, his excess of pride causes him to look down on his social inferiors. They have the most unique relationship. They didn’t like each other to start but when Darcy said “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me” Elizabeth takes an immediate disliking to Darcy. Because of Darcy’s comments and rejection to dance with anyone not rich and well bred, the neighbourhood takes a similar disliking to him. At the second ball Darcy realises that he likes Liz. He then asks her to dance and she then refuses. This then makes Darcy like her even more because he now thinks that she only likes rich men, but what he doesn’t realise is that she is prejudice. She first realizes what a nice and considerate person he is when he pays off Mr. Wickham to marry Lydia Bennet after Lydia and Wickham ran off together. If the didn’t get married by the time they return to longbourn it would have ruined the family name. Darcy asked Liz to marry him but made the proposal so long winded and rude she said yes. This was before she found out about Darcy paying off Wickham. At the same time when Bingley proposed to Jane, Darcy Proposed to Liz and she said Yes. They then had a double wedding with Jane and Bingley. There marriage was for love.
The one relationship that almost ruined the family’s reputation was Lydia and Wickham. Lydia is the youngest Bennet sister, she is gossipy and immature. Unlike Elizabeth, Lydia flings herself recklessly into romance. Mr. Wickham is a handsome, fortune-hunting military officer. Lydia was invited to Brighton as a friend of the family. During this Mr. Wickham eloped with Lydia. Mr. Bennet went all over Brighton looking for her. Mr. Darcy found out and found Mr. Wickham and paid off Mr. Wickham to marry Lydia thus not ruining the family’s reputation. They come back to longbourn for a little while then go off to London. There marriage was for lust.
The relationship between Mr and Mrs. Bennet is a funny one indeed. Mr. Bennet is the head of the Bennet family, a gentleman of reasonable income with five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet has a sarcastic, mocking sense of humour that he uses to purposefully annoy his wife. Mrs. Bennet is a foolish, overly dramatic, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Her often unflattering behaviour often repels the very men who she tries to attract for her daughters. They have been married for quite along time. We don’t know much about the start of there relationship. All we know is that they married for love
The one relationship where the couple didn’t know anything about one or the other was the relationship between Mr. Collins and Mrs. Charlotte Lucas. Mr. Collins is an arrogant, generally idiotic clergyman who is to inherit Mr. Bennet’s property. Mr. Collins’s own social status is nothing to go on about, but he goes to great lengths to let everyone and anyone about Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Mrs. Lucas is Elizabeth’s best friend. Sensible where as Elizabeth is romantic. She is also six years older than Elizabeth, Charlotte does not view love as the most important part of a marriage. She is more interested in having a comfortable home and money. They had only properly known each other for only one day before Collins proposed and she said yes. She even thinks he’s arrogant and boring but she still said yes. They got married in lust.
In my opinion the relationship between Jane and Bingley was the overall best. They loved each other from the start. Liz and Dacey had a good relationship towards the end, but over all they had a fairly good relationship. They had problems to begin with but they saw past that and later got married. The overall worst relationship was between Charlotte and Collins. They had now relationship, nothing in common but yet they still got married. Second worse was Wickham’s and Lydia’s they thought they had something in common but they ran off together and eloped. Wickham only wanted Lydia for her looks, money and sex. There were many different types of relationships in pride and prejudice. There were many different strengths and weaknesses.
