How Is Elizabeth Bennet A Dynamic Character

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Elizabeth Bennet is one of the main characters and is the epitome of sense and logic. She is also protruded to have both pride and prejudice and is very much a dynamic character because she is able to face her shortcomings and come out a more open minded person. The readers connect with her the most and thus she is written to be very credible. She is quite a complex character given her sense clashes with her failings. It is through embracing new concept that she learns to rid of her faults. The protagonist would be Elizebeth given the novel follows the thoughts of Elizabeth, but Darcy can too, be regarded as one given he is one of the main characters and has plots revolved around him. The antagonist would be most likely be Mr. Wickham and Lady …show more content…

One of the characters central to the novel, aside from the protagonists, would be Wickhams, a vile, deceptive yet charming man who is in his late 20s. His personality is revealed gradually through his acquaintance with Darcy, “Both [ Darcy and Wickham's] changed colour; one looked white, the other red. Mr. Wickham, after a few moments, touched his hat — a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return. What could be the meaning of it?” people turn red due to embarrassment and given the fact that Wickham's had spoken so unfavorably about Darcy to Elizabeth, readers are given the first glimpse into Wickhams’ shady character (75). Another character deemed central is Jane Bennet, the trustworthy, beautiful and optimistic older sister of Elizabeth. Jane is the one person Elizebeth fully confides in but Jane tends to be overtly innocent, perhaps oblivious, "I do not at all comprehend her [Miss Bingley] reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again” despite revelations that Miss Bingley most likely ruined Jane’s chances of being with her brother, Mr. Bingley, Jane is sure she would be deceived again by the questionable character of Miss …show more content…

Bennet, who is truly something, the mother of Elizabeth Bennet and the character obsessed with carrying off her daughters. She is pushy, embarrassing and ignorant, “"Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" "How so? How can it affect them?" "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.” "Is that his design in settling here?" "Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party" (14-19). Mrs. Bennet’s character is rather naive in the sense that her husband constantly pokes fun of her and is actually regretful of his decision to have made such haste in marrying her and thus is always sarcastic and passive

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