How Do Elizabeth Bennet’s Relationships Show Her Process Of Moral Growth?

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superficial bindings. Not at all silly like her ditzy sisters, Elizabeth is simply disengaged and she wishes to see and understand excitement. She finds her wish in Wickham, who provides her with a strange tale that is both shocking and appealing to Elizabeth.
Elizabeth perceptiveness fails her in the situation with her friend Charlotte Lucas: she makes a terrible mistake in her judgment of Charlotte. Elizabeth is shocked and amazed at her friend’s poor choice of Mr. Collins as a husband; she believes that Charlotte is not thinking correctly when she marries Mr. Collins. Since Charlotte does not rely on romantic love but rather on worldly concerns, she defends her marriage as “her only preservative from a prospective nearly penniless spinsterhood” (Moler 24). Charlotte and Mr. Bennet play crucial roles as the only intelligent people in Elizabeth’s life and they greatly affect her mental maturity. They teach her that freedom from significant choices actually confines, that ...

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the dynamics between its hero and heroine. The spark of their relationship depends on their equality of intelligence and perception” (Mooneyham 131). It is evident that Elizabeth, although unknowingly, is attracted to Darcy by her reactions to certain events, such as her stay at the Pemberley estate. Even though she tells herself otherwise, the reader gets an idea in Volume 1 of Pride and Prejudice that she really cares for him. Darcy is constantly on Elizabeth’s mind and it is due in large part to she misunderstands herself.
Her freedom keeps her from showing affection for Darcy. She is a woman who can judge for herself and is confident in her decisions and observations. ...

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