Mrs. Bennet

Dora Ocampo
AP English 11 –Mr. Darcy
April 14, 2009
Easter Homework Two

Deceitful and a gold-digger, throughout the entire novel Mrs. Bennet was inconsistent with how she felt towards others.
If you were a man of wealth and of high class, Mrs. Bennet would compliment you on everything. The most important element that Mrs. Bennet looked for was stature. She attempted to associate herself only with rich people, although she was poor, and also attempted to pair up her daughters with only rich men. If Mrs. Bennet lacks in anything, it’s on being genuine. Her harsh words and ill manners towards Mr. Darcy is an example of how much a stranger Mrs. Bennet is to being genuine. The primary reason for her behavior was because Mr. Darcy refused to dance with her daughters. After finding out that Mr. Darcy has proposed to Elizabeth, she soon began to praise Mr. Darcy, even though moments before she was talking ill of him.
Mrs. Bennet is a dummy. The ventriloquist tells her what to say, although she doesn’t mean any of it. Her life is controlled by a hand, and in Mrs. Bennet’s case the hand is the importance of class. Her motives are simply because she feels obligated. She will give you compliments and good wishes, but at the end of the day she is controlled by something else, and all her words and intensions are only in hopes of benefitting her in some way.
Mrs. Bennet is like Perez Hilton, constantly talking about the flaws of others, but too shallow to notice their own.