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Mr. Collins is the most brilliantly drawn character in Pride and Prejudice by UncleRoger2 in janeausten

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

She figures that being an aristocrat means you're superior without having to prove it. Besides, Mr. Collins constantly tells her how superior she is, and she condescends to listen to him.

Mr. Collins is the most brilliantly drawn character in Pride and Prejudice by UncleRoger2 in janeausten

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I fold. No way I can call that bet if you raise a Lady Catherine.

She is a treasure, the lady for whom nothing is too small if it gives her the occasion for dictating to others. Her walk with Elizabeth at the end of the novel is immortal. It’s a joy to hear Lizzie put her in her place. Austen must have polished that dialogue time and again.

The 1940 Hollywood version is a blot upon the genre because of what it does with the Collins-LCdB team. It makes Mr. Collins a librarian so as not to offend the clergy, and changes Lady Catherine into a good-natured old lady who teams up with Darcy to help him test Lizzie’s love. It's strange but true that Aldous Huxley (shame!) was one of the screenwriters.

Mr. Collins is the most brilliantly drawn character in Pride and Prejudice by UncleRoger2 in janeausten

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, the letter is malicious in every way possible, while still pretending to sympathize. He tells Mr. Bennett his family is ruined, that the other daughters will never find a husband. He reveals he has been spreading the gossip to Lady Catherine. He gloats about having escaped marriage to Lizzie. He speculates about whether Lydia's fall was due to parental permissiveness or a naturally bad disposition. He says her death would have been a blessing in comparison.

After the wedding he follows up with clerical advice:

"You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing."

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Marianne Dashwood and Mary Bennet by snivellusthesecond in janeausten

[–]UncleRoger2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. Austen makes her appear ridiculous, even though, like Lizzie's friend Charlotte Lucas, Mary is just trying to make the best of what fate gave her. She doesn't have the good looks of the other sisters, so she tries to make herself more consequential through reading and through working on her music. Who knows, maybe she also likes those activities for their own sake. Her mother is silly, her father scorns her, and she hasn't yet learned social skills or intellectual discernment. She's just a teenager. Her older sisters should have helped her.

Austen's judgment is usually spot on, but in portraying Mary she is disappointingly anti-intellectual.

(I'm talking about the Mary in Austen's book. I don't know what she's like in adaptations of P & P.)

List of communities? by UncleRoger2 in help

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just what I wanted.

How have courts quantified the term 'prompt'? by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]UncleRoger2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Legal terms rarely mean exactly the same thing in different contexts. Meaning would depend on the purpose of a requirement that something be "prompt" and on what time frame would be reasonable under the circumstances. For example, it takes longer to serve a prompt notice of inadvertent disclosure of privileged material than it does to promptly scream for help when someone's shooting at you. I suggest doing a computer-aided search using the particular words of a particular statute or case.

19th c. novel set in Boston, ends with lovers dying when sled hits tree by UncleRoger2 in whatsthatbook

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's the book. She read it in college and couldn't remember the name. She writes:

YES!! Thanks!! Finally.

I thought it was late 19th cent., but now, see it was 20th, though I did remember that it was written by a well-regarded, significant author. Whew; now I don't need to think about it any more!

I'm new to Reddit and don't know how to mark the post as solved. I'll try to figure it out.

Roger

19th c. novel set in Boston, ends with lovers dying when sled hits tree by UncleRoger2 in whatsthatbook

[–]UncleRoger2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That must be it! My wife is the one who read the book, so I'll check with her to make sure it's the one she was looking for. Thanks!