An analysis of Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Ayu, Ike Rachmawati Purba (2008) An analysis of Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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The problems of the thesis entitled An Analysis of Mrs. Bennet's Rational Egoism in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are to answer two quetions.Firstly,what are Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism?. Secondly, what are the impacts of Mrs.Bennet's rational egoism to the other characters?. Library researches including Internet browsing are applied to find the data that have to do with the topic of discussion. The data of the research are in the form of phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraph, and even discourse relate to Mrs.Bennet's rational egoism in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Sociological and Psychological approaches are used to analyze the data in this thesis. Moreover, the theories that are used in this analysis are Characterization, Character, Simple (Flat) Character, Complex (Round) Character, Motivation, Ambition, Egoism,Rational Egoism. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism can be seen from the five phenomena in the followings. Firstly, she forces her husband to attend the noble's party. She does not want to lose the chance and lets the person take it. Secondly, she supports the fifth daughter to marry the militia. Since she is hopeless, she encourages Lydia to meet the militia to get the positive result, namely her daughter's marriage.Thirdly, she arranges her first daughter to marry a noble. Her rational makes her see a big chance to get Mr. Bingley, who is rich, as her son in law. Fourthly, she arranges her second daughter to marry the clergy. Mrs. Bennet has still seen the occasion that Mr. Collins has a chance to marry Elizabeth because Jane has already seen Mr. Bingley. Fifthly, she forces her second daughter to marry the clergy. Mrs. Bennet has a plan to get her daughter closer with Mr. Collins. This is because she does not want to lose the third chance to see her second daughter to get married with a person that she wants. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism gets four effects on theother characters.The first is freedom limitation. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism makes her dictate what Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth,Jane, and Lydia must and must not do and behave.The second is passivity. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism has bad effects on Elizabeth.Elizabeth has no idea to refuse anything her mother wants. The third is lack of response. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism has such an unfavorable effect on Mr. Bennet, Kitty, and Elizabeth. They do not welcome enthusiastically Mrs.Bennet's business. The fourth is lack of respect. Mrs. Bennet's rational egoism makes Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth, Jane, Mr. Bingley, and Mr.Darcy lose their respect.

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