#with the book mr bingley

[alilsakurablossom]

eponine would have loved mr bingley from pride and prejudice

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

i just got to the part of pride & prejudice in like. chapter 34 when mr. darcy goes to lizzy and says "In vain have I 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." and um. yeah if I were a girl in the regency era reading this for the first time right as it was published they would've sent me to the seaside to treat my hysteria

[comicaloverachiever]

On opening the door, she perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as if engaged in earnest conversation; and had this led to no suspicion, the faces of both as they hastily turned round, and moved away from each other, would have told it all.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (illustration by C. E. Brock) Pride and Prejudice (1995) dir. Simon Langton

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Pride & prejudice: the summary

[anghraine]

It's kind of fascinating to me that towards the end of P&P, Elizabeth has become protective of Darcy and either a) actively tries to insulate him from Situations or b) wishes that she could and gets stressed that she can't.

Darcy deeply loves her and is very ready to do whatever he can to secure her happiness, but narratively, I think the emphasis at the end is very much more on Elizabeth's protectiveness towards him.

It's like:

When Bingley and Darcy first come back to Hertfordshire, Darcy is very quiet and Elizabeth can barely bring herself to say anything—until Mrs Bennet insults Darcy. Then Elizabeth speaks up.

Mrs Bennet enlists Elizabeth to separate Darcy from Bingley with another insult to Darcy. Elizabeth finds this both convenient and enraging.

That day, Elizabeth decides to privately tell Mrs Bennet about her engagement to Darcy, specifically so that Darcy will be spared Mrs Bennet's first unfiltered response.

Elizabeth fiercely defends Darcy's character and love for her, as well as hers for him, to Mr Bennet. She not only says she loves Darcy but that it upsets her to hear Mr Bennet's criticisms of him.

Elizabeth is both relieved by Mrs Bennet's ecstatic reception of the engagement and a bit disappointed by how completely shallow she's being about it, and 100% sure she made the right call in keeping Darcy away.

Elizabeth defends Darcy against Darcy himself, repeatedly.

There's a period where Elizabeth seems to unwind and laugh, but this passes, especially after Charlotte and Mr Collins show up. Darcy manages to stay calm around Mr Collins (I think this is framed as a significant and admirable achievement for him), but Elizabeth does not like him being in a situation where he has to deal with Mr Collins in the first place.

Elizabeth tries to shield Darcy from being noticed by Mrs Phillips and Mrs Bennet, who do seem to make him pretty excruciatingly uncomfortable.

Ultimately, Elizabeth ends up trying to keep Darcy to herself or to shepherd him around to relatives he can handle more easily, and is so stressed at this point that she just wants to get married and escape to Pemberley.

After their marriage, things are actually great at Pemberley and in their married life, despite the occasional complication.

Lydia writes a congratulatory letter to Elizabeth, asking for Darcy to get Wickham a promotion unless Elizabeth would rather not bring it up with him. Elizabeth really does not want Darcy to have to deal with this and handles it by privately setting aside a Lydia fund out of her personal expenses. (IIRC, it's not clear if Darcy even knows about this.)

Elizabeth also is the driving force behind Darcy's reconciliation with Lady Catherine.

This could read as an unsettling, unbalanced dynamic and a very odd ending point for the arc of a woman like Elizabeth, but in the context of the overall novel, it doesn't feel that way. Or maybe I'd see it more that way if I interpreted Darcy (and for that matter, Elizabeth) + their arcs differently? But as it is, I do think that by this point in the story they are genuinely doing the best they can, independently and for each other, and they've both come a long way. They shine in different contexts and support each other as much as they can in the circumstances that do arise.

It seems very them, in terms of their temperament and abilities, that Elizabeth would put all this effort into shielding Darcy, while at the same time, Darcy completely cuts off Lady Catherine for insulting Elizabeth and only ever speaks to her again because Elizabeth wants him to.

[4ever-feral]

The sluttiest thing a man can do is walk across a misty field in an unbuttoned white shirt at dawn.

[nihilistic-optimistest]

watched pride and prejudice for the first time yesterday, had to go make this immediately

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

Pride and Prejudice + Texts, Part Two || Pt1 Pt3

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Said Darcy, while other men were fighting Napoleon across the continent...

[melmad21]

Had to make a book cover for a classic book in my illustration class. Had just finished Pride and Prejudice and thought why not!

[bloodsuckingviolet]

Mr. Darcy: yeah, i'm single

Mr. Darcy: single handedly destroying my family's expectations

[chaoticpersontale]

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

[lilyharriet11]

I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice and I am entirely charmed. This is so incredibly good book, I wish I could read more such wonderful literature. Reading it now, I noticed how lovely was Jane and Bingley's relationship. They were so cute! I definitely appreciated them more now, they both were so kind, soft and delicate. I currently intend to reread Northanger Abbey because I don't remember anything from this book at all. (This will be my Jane Austen week!)

[apotheosphorus]

pride and prejudice but instead of mr darcy and elizabeth its ms bingley and elizabeth and its a lesbian slow burn enemies to lovers where theyre grappling with their unspoken gay feelings against all the odds while trying to deal with the marriage mart being foisted upon them

[someprideandprejudice]

Alright, okay.

I know I already said Mr. Bingley was a soft boy in the last post but that was before I searched up the gif to add to the end of that one and.

WHY IS HE ACTUALLY SO CUTE? LIKE THIS MAN IS ADORABLE???? HOW IS HE THAT SOFT? EXPLAIN.

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]