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    Fahd Ahmed wrote a character analysis of Mrs. Bennet from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. He analyzed her as an ambitious yet entertaining mother who is overly focused on marrying off her daughters. Mrs. Bennet is rude, lacks social skills, and embarrasses her family with her gossiping. However, she deeply loves her daughters and wants to secure their futures through advantageous marriages, though she fails to consider compatibility. Her pushy nature about marriage prospects scares away potential suitors like Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Overall, Fahd chose to analyze her character as she brings humor to the story through her extreme behaviors and priorities as a mother in 19th century England

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    Fahd Ahmed wrote a character analysis of Mrs. Bennet from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. He analyzed her as an ambitious yet entertaining mother who is overly focused on marrying off her daughters. Mrs. Bennet is rude, lacks social skills, and embarrasses her family with her gossiping. However, she deeply loves her daughters and wants to secure their futures through advantageous marriages, though she fails to consider compatibility. Her pushy nature about marriage prospects scares away potential suitors like Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Overall, Fahd chose to analyze her character as she brings humor to the story through her extreme behaviors and priorities as a mother in 19th century England

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    Fahd Ahmed wrote a character analysis of Mrs. Bennet from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. He analyzed her as an ambitious yet entertaining mother who is overly focused on marrying off her daughters. Mrs. Bennet is rude, lacks social skills, and embarrasses her family with her gossiping. However, she deeply loves her daughters and wants to secure their futures through advantageous marriages, though she fails to consider compatibility. Her pushy nature about marriage prospects scares away potential suitors like Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Overall, Fahd chose to analyze her character as she brings humor to the story through her extreme behaviors and priorities as a mother in 19th century England

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    Character Sketch of Mrs - Bennet

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    Fahd Ahmed

    English 11 PSL

    Mr. Smoot

    29th July, 2010

    Character analysis: Mrs. Bennet

    This quarter in English 11 PSL we are reading a novel known as “Pride and Prejudice.” By reading just the

    first few chapters I am convinced that this book is a romantic novel and hence, obviously a “chick flick.”

    I have been given a task to analyze a character from this novel. Of course there are a vast number of

    characters in this book who are all unique in their own ways. I have chosen Mrs. Bennet for my task

    because I realized that she is a very interesting character to write about.

    According to most other people, their parents are very annoying and embarrassing, especially their

    mothers. According to me they are very luck that they don’t have to handle a mother like Mrs. Bennet.

    She is antisocial, rude and very narrow-minded. She also has an adverse habit of giving out too much

    information for no reason and speaking out her mind. This shows that she doesn’t think before she

    opens her mouth, thus embarrassing her family members, yet, at the same time entertaining the

    readers. We can prove this by giving the example of Jane, her oldest daughter. She continually brags

    about Jane’s good looks and claims that Jane was going to marry influential Mr. Bingley as if it was

    already the mutual decision between the two families. She also told Mr. Bingley that Mr. Bennet (her

    husband) would save all of the best hunting for him.

    In the end we realize that Mrs.Bennet is too ambitious about her daughters and all throughout the novel

    we see that her main aim in life is to get her daughters married off. The prospect of having Mrs.Bennet
    as their mother-in-law scares both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Her character is an extreme image of

    distortion of a 19th century mother. She is pushy and demanding, like a chatterbox gossiping all the time

    and obviously very ambitious about marrying off her daughters into well-known, influential and well-to-

    do families with handsome young men.

    The reason why I have chosen her character is that she brings humor into the novel and she definitely is

    an interesting character to analyze and learn about. In spite of all the negativity in her character as

    illustrated above, she has one major good quality. She loves her daughters a lot and is always worried

    about their well-being. Granted, she wants to get her daughters married off to men from rich families

    without taking into consideration the compatibility between the prospective bride and groom, but she

    does that only to secure her daughters’ future. She wants them to have a secure marriage, a luxury she

    could not afford. Her love for her daughters overpowers her ability to see their happiness in the forced

    courtship.

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