#elizabeth bennet

[raincitygirl76]

For people who can’t read screen caps:

Bingley: “You told Elizabeth her inferior social standing is a disgrace?”

Darcy: “Yes.”

Bingley: “And this was…before the proposal, or after?”

Darcy: “During.”

Bingley: “Darcy.”

[bennetsbonnet]

Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (2/?)

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

"Chat what do I do the guy I hate just confessed their unyielding love to me"

Pride and prejudice screenshot redraw but not really, I drew them like how I felt like it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[linusbenjamin]

Pride and Prejudice 2005 ☼ dir. Joe Wright

[crowleys-emotional-support-angel]

This is the best thing I’ve read in like a YEAR oh my god I’m stifling my helpless laughter so I don’t wake up my roommate

Jane Austen: so, you go to Mr Collins' house and Elizabeth is there alone. She welcomes you politely, but she looks---troubled.

Colonel Fitzwilliam: and of course she does, after everything I said to her-

Fitzwilliam Darcy: do I sense if she is mad at me specifically or it is just her headache?

Jane Austen: roll an Investigation Check.

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *grimacing* it's a three.

Jane Austen: just her headache.

Caroline Bingley: *derisively* she only looks like she wants to stab you, Darcy.

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *shrugs* I guess I am too nervous to really give her a proper look.

Jane Austen: what do you do next?

Fitzwilliam Darcy: well, I-I tell her, "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Jane Austen: Elizabeth blushes. She is absolutely stunned.

Georgiana Darcy: that is good, right? Right?

Fitzwilliam Darcy: I tell her that even if her family is--not ideal-

Charles Bingley: *making a face*

Caroline Bingley: *playfully disgusted frown* and I made my character romance you?

Fitzwilliam Darcy: -and I might be acting impulsively, I just have to let her know that I love her. That's it.

**Silence**

Jane Austen: *smacks her lips* okay-

Charles Bingley: *histerical laughter* I don't like the way you said it-

Colonel Fitzwilliam: it's an immediate natural one, yes? Please tell me it's immediate.

Georgiana Darcy: shhhh!

Jane Austen: give me a Persuasion Check-let me tell you, you have to roll very high.

Fitzwilliam Darcy: figures-very well-

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *beat*

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *flatly* natural one.

Colonel Fitzwilliam: JUSTICE!

Jane Austen: *claps her hands* you make your grand love confession, but Elizabeth stops you and immediately rejects you.

Fitzwilliam Darcy: ouch.

Jane Austen: she tells you that she could never marry the person that hurt her sister and destroyed Wickham's future-

Fitzwilliam Darcy: *dawning horror* I had forgotten they had talked, fuck-

Jane Austen: and, finally-

Charles Bingley: there is more? He is already dead-

Jane Austen: Elizabeth looks at you dead in the eye and says: "From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

Fitzwilliam Darcy: damn.

Caroline Bingley: *dying of laughter under the table*

Charles Bingley: I do not know if I can resurrect you after that.

Georgiana Darcy: I knew it, I should have given you Bardic Inspiration-

[firawren]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 6 of ? - prev set

More: Persuasion 1995 text posts | Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

[hacked-wtsdz]

You can’t win as a woman in fiction. Be too positive, you become a Mary Sue, have flaws and those flaws are why almost nobody likes you. Be moderate, you have wet-cabbage personality, be exuberant, you are an unrealistic example. Have strong morals, and you’re badly developed, be morally corrupt and you’re hated with such vigour fans will send hate mail to the actress who plays the character. Be kind and soft and in love, you’re a representation of sexism, be cruel, harsh and cold and you’re just a bitch. Be a complex, realistic, ambiguous character, and either your flaws or your positive traits will be ignored or blown out of proportion and into oblivion. There is no winning for female characters.

[nobondiscloser]

Sometimes I forget I was a child when this came out. I always feel like I was older, especially since I’d read the book already. But I did the math to double check… I was 10 when this came out… It’s been 20 odd years, I should reread this. I should probably rewatch the movie afterwards as well now that I know who Rosamund Pike is… Child me had no conception of the power actress’s wield.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright

[thepastisalreadywritten]

💚🐸💚

[besotted-with-austen]

“Elizabeth had no idea Darcy was flirting even when he was really obvious about his intentions” and “a mix of Darcy actively trying to distance himself and his attitude towards everyone he had in contempt kept Elizabeth oblivious to his intentions” are both true statements and one doesn’t invalidate the other.

[miss-carter]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright

[olivelune]

These are perfect

Darcy & Elizabeth + text messages

[duhaerith]

watched pride & prejudice a few weeks ago its so haikaveh coded

[hmione]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[hycinthrt]

i love how a big part of elizabeth bennet’s character is that she is obviously very smart, she is very observant, but she can easily be led astray by her preconceived notions, by things that she already has convinced herself of believing. and this is most obvious by her not seeing mr. darcy’s proposal coming at all, because girl that man was openly flirting with her. i don’t think this is shown a lot in the movie or the tv series, but he keeps teasing her, answering her witty remarks with a smile, the whole “i am not afraid of you” thing. like, charlotte saw it coming, colonel fitzwilliam definitely saw it coming, the gardiners knew as soon as they saw them together later in the book, mr darcy was not as subtle as he thought he was being

seriously, god bless you jane austen for giving us this romance of two fucking idiots constantly misunderstanding each other’s actions and intentions. god bless you for giving us mr “aha so like what do you think of your friend’s marriage? you wouldn’t mind living away from your family when you marry right? oh, no reason, no reason, just a random thought. and what do you think of rosings, you know if hypothetically you were ever a guest there, no, no reason hehe”, and miss “i wonder why i keep coming across mr darcy during my walks, i even made sure to tell him that this is where i usually take my walks so he can avoid me but we are still??? running into each other???? and he keeps asking me all these strange questions too, what a weirdo”

just, two idiots that were made for each other

[warrioreowynofrohan]

YES!! I’m been feeling dissatisfied for a while with the take on P&P as “I won’t fix him, he’ll fix himself”, because – yes, you shouldn’t marry someone with the intention of “fixing” them, but “oh good, he’s finally met my standards and now I can marry him!” is…kind of not the greatest foundation for a relationship either?

Granted, I have no practical experience in this vein, but I would think that the ideal emotional footing for a relationship would be both people feeling “this person is wonderful and I’m so happy that they love me!” And that seems to be the case with most Jane Austen matches between protagonists.

You want a relationship where both people motivate each other to try to be better people. It’s not supposed to be unidirectional. And that mutuality is what Darcy and Elizabeth have – they both recognize their flaws and improve, as well as both coming to a fuller understanding of each others’ merits.

If you think the main draw to Pride and Prejudice is "enemies to lovers with a rich man" then you've explicitly missed the point.

The draw is "rich haughty man realizes the error of his ways, makes sincere attempts to rectify his mistakes, and in the end expects literally nothing in return because he does genuinely truly love the girl who rejected him and he didn't want her to ever believe she 'owed' him or that he did it merely to get in her good graces"