#mr darcy's proposal

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

Darcy (stoicaly): She's not like other ladies. She doesn't want me for my money.

Darcy (tearfully): She just doesn't want me.

[bethanydelleman]

I would pay good money to pluck Darcy and Wentworth out of their respective books and put them in the same room right after being dumped/rejected. Because Wentworth would be on a bender and Darcy would be like, "Maybe you should reflect on yourself" and they'd probably get close to killing each other but end up as best friends.

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

wait, no?

she's saying no?

huh

I didn't know that was an option

[dogzcats]

pride & prejudice (1995): from book to screen

[keelifallen]

[firawren]

Darcy: Even though your family is awful and I could do so much better than you, I wish you would marry me.

Elizabeth:

[mollywog]

Something I find funny about Jane Austen is: she doesn’t f*ck around with dialogue she doesn’t want to write (AKA: end-game main character proposals/acceptances)

Emma/Mr. Knightly

She spoke then, on being so entreated.—What did she say?—Just what she ought, of course.

Lizzie/Mr. Darcy

Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.

Elinor/Edward

How soon he had walked himself into the proper resolution, however, how soon an opportunity of exercising it occurred, in what manner he expressed himself, and how he was received, need not be particularly told. This only need be said;—that when they all sat down to table at four o'clock, about three hours after his arrival, he had secured his lady, engaged her mother's consent, and was not only in the rapturous profession of the lover, but, in the reality of reason and truth, one of the happiest of men.

Anne/Captain Wentworth

Charles was at the bottom of Union Street again, and the other two proceeding together: and soon words enough had passed between them to decide their direction towards the comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk, where the power of conversation would make the present hour a blessing indeed, and prepare it for all the immortality which the happiest recollections of their own future lives could bestow. There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other’s character, truth, and attachment;

Catherine/Henry

Some explanation on his father's account he had to give; but his first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own;

Fanny/Edward Edmund

I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people. I only entreat everybody to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and became as anxious to marry Fanny as Fanny herself could desire.

[itsacruelsummerwithyou2]

blitz saying stolas’s romantic desires are just a romcom as if they’re not literally hell’s elizabeth bennet and mr. darcy

[cloud-sitting]

Alright, I’m making my call.

I think this scene…

is going to have the same vibes as this scene

[raisedbythetv89]

Two of the worst proposals in the history of modern media followed by the most pathetic cringe fail loser puppy dog eyes when their absolutely abysmal attempts at saying “I love and want only you” fail miserably and unfortunately for me I desire both of them carnally

bonus: they even both hit this pose after being knocked on their ass during said failed proposal attempt

[snailfriend777]

I'm running a test.... one might say a test in taste.

please elaborate on your decision and share for a larger sample size! I'm in the middle of a discussion on portrayals of romance in 19th century lit and want arguments for both sides, even if I'm biased lol

[fandom-geek]

i'm rewatching the 1940 pride and prejudice and edna may oliver's looks of disgust as lady catherine de bourgh were too perfect not to make this meme

added bonus of this whole conversation

darcy: my aunt means quite kindly, miss elizabeth, her manner is sometimes a little uncultured.

elizabeth: having already met you, i was happily prepared for your aunt's manner.

[bethanydelleman]

AITA for bringing up scruples when I proposed?

u/radicaltruthTA

Throw-away because my sister knows my main

I still don't really see where I was wrong here, so I'm going to ask anonymously.

Background: I (M) am wealthy and well-connected. I don't want to get into details, but I think it's safe to say I could marry anyone I wanted.

As you can imagine, when I found myself interested in a girl with no connections, no fortune, and a really vulgar family I was fairly annoyed. I tried as hard as I could to get over it, as I felt that was my duty. But she is really great so I went for it.

I felt it was fair to explain during my proposal the reasons that I had been hesitant, you know, the expectations of my family, my station in life, the fact that her family is so embarrassing that I'm surprised she hasn't melted in pure shame (she has somehow learned better manners), and the like.

Instead of appreciating my struggle or taking it as a compliment to her many perfections, she got really, really angry and then said that I had behaved in an ungentleman-like manner and I was, "the last man in the world whom [she] could ever be prevailed on to marry" She basically called me an AH.

I don't think I did anything wrong, I was just being honest about my scruples. Was I supposed to rejoice in the inferiority of her circumstances? I thought she would be flattered! And I staunchly believe in radical honesty.

I can't talk to anyone in my family so I'm asking here. AITA?

Top Comment:

u/MiniBabyCakes

I knew just from the username that I would be answering YTA. How did you manage to write all of that out and not see the problem?

"Radical truth telling" is just code for "I'm an AH but I pretend it's honesty"

Comment somewhere near the bottom:

u/MrsHtheQueen

@u/PrincessCaroline did you see this?

u/PrincessCaroline

O.M.G.

AITA Jane Austen Masterpost

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

We have reached

THE PROPOSAL SCENE

vibrates excitedly

[theunsaidsyllables]

I love how specific conversations make words immortal. Before I read Pride and Prejudice, "ardently" was just an eight lettered word. Post that, it's "fervent confessions in pouring rains, as I look at you and you at me and we're torn apart by what we feel, yet we heal as we burn for each other."

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

How dare you reject me ? I am Fitzwilliam Darcy, the master of Pemberley.