Character Analysis
Major Characters:
Mrs. Bennet: A stock character, static character, “If i can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.”
Mr. Bennet: Minor Character and static.”I'm sorry to hear that, if i had know as much this morning, i should of never called on him”
Jane Bennet: Round and Major character “He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with.”
Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bennet: Dynamic, protagonist, “He is the unlucky to lose your friendship in a way he’s likely to suffer from all his blood.”
Mary Bennet: Flat and Static, “Pride is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are two different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Catherine “Kitty” Bennet:Identifiers: Static and flat. “I do not cough for my own amusement.”
Lydia Bennet: Identifiers : Round and foil.“As often as I can, but you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.” or “I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I’m the tallest.”
Charles Bingley: Foil and Major character “there is nothing i love more than a country dance.”
Miss Caroline Bingley: Shallow and haughty, "When dinner was over, she (Elizabeth) returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room. Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty."
Fitzwilliam Darcy: indirect characterization-dynamic and major character or round “It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.” or “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
Charlotte Lucas: Dynamic and minor character “oh yes, i encourage him to be in his garden as much as possible, and then he has to water rosings nearly every day.”
Mr. Collins: Static and Round. ““I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Round and foil. “I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it. It is a wonderful how many families I have been the means of supplying in that way. I am always glad to get a young person well placed out.”
George Wickham: IDs: Foil and major character. “so steady, that in his will he particularly recommended it to me to promote his advancement in the best manner that his profession might allow, and, if he took orders, desired that a valuable family living might be his as soon as it became vacant.”
Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner: Symbolic and Foil: “sister calm down, nothing dreadful will happen. I shall be in London tomorrow morning and there we will consult on what is best to be done.”
Mrs. Bennet: A stock character, static character, “If i can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.”
Mr. Bennet: Minor Character and static.”I'm sorry to hear that, if i had know as much this morning, i should of never called on him”
Jane Bennet: Round and Major character “He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with.”
Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bennet: Dynamic, protagonist, “He is the unlucky to lose your friendship in a way he’s likely to suffer from all his blood.”
Mary Bennet: Flat and Static, “Pride is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are two different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Catherine “Kitty” Bennet:Identifiers: Static and flat. “I do not cough for my own amusement.”
Lydia Bennet: Identifiers : Round and foil.“As often as I can, but you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.” or “I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I’m the tallest.”
Charles Bingley: Foil and Major character “there is nothing i love more than a country dance.”
Miss Caroline Bingley: Shallow and haughty, "When dinner was over, she (Elizabeth) returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room. Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty."
Fitzwilliam Darcy: indirect characterization-dynamic and major character or round “It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.” or “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
Charlotte Lucas: Dynamic and minor character “oh yes, i encourage him to be in his garden as much as possible, and then he has to water rosings nearly every day.”
Mr. Collins: Static and Round. ““I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Round and foil. “I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it. It is a wonderful how many families I have been the means of supplying in that way. I am always glad to get a young person well placed out.”
George Wickham: IDs: Foil and major character. “so steady, that in his will he particularly recommended it to me to promote his advancement in the best manner that his profession might allow, and, if he took orders, desired that a valuable family living might be his as soon as it became vacant.”
Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner: Symbolic and Foil: “sister calm down, nothing dreadful will happen. I shall be in London tomorrow morning and there we will consult on what is best to be done.”