In Pride and Predjuice life is not all fun and games. There are many pressures in
life: mothers with high expectations for a good marriage and a girl's own expectation of
what life and hopefully marriage will be like. Charlotte Lucas is the oldest daughter in a
large family, she is not the most beautiful girl, and she is twenty-seven, well beyond the
marrying age. Charlotte is Elizabeth Bennett's best friend and Mr. Collins, the man
Charlotte finally marries, is Elizabeth's cousin. Charlotte Lucas will marry to solidify
her life, not because she loves, for many people are unkind about her ability to marry
well; thus after her marriage to Mr. Collins, she spends all of her time avoiding him.
Charlotte knows that even though she wants to marry more than anything in the
world, she does not expect love to come about; thus, she decides that it is probably even
better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying.
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Charlotte and Brother LoveWhile
Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth about her sister, she expressed her opinion as to Jane
Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She says it is probably better not to study a
person because you would probably know as much after twelve months as if she married
him the next day. Charlotte even goes as far as to say that "it is better to know as little as
possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life" (p.21).
Charlotte considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but since marriage had
always been her goal in life, "at the age of twenty-seven, with having never been
handsome, she felt all the good luck of it" (p.107). Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth on
her marriage to Mr. Collins...
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