Ohhhhh! Rejected!!

In pages 75-90, we see women in power. Men have many weaknesses. They would never admit to any of them, and they would and will do anything to fix or hide their weaknesses; however, it seems that they still haven't found a cure to one of their worst weaknesses...women. In this part of the book, Mr. Collin's nears the end of his stay at Longbourne. He feels he must act know in order to fulfill his patroness' wishes as well as his own to marry and to settle the long dispute between his family and the Bennet family. There is only one small problem; he needs to find a woman to fulfill this must. At first, he selects Jane, the eldest and most beautiful of the Bennet girls. Once he informs Mrs. Bennet of this selection, she tells him at once that Jane is very near having a proposal of her own from another admirer. He immediately takes this into consideration and opens his eyes for another woman who would be suitable to play the role of his wife, and who would satisfy Lady Catherine's judgements. Next in line came the fair Elizabeth Bennet.

Elizabeth has never been one to not follow her heart. She has a feminist attitude and cannot dream of ever making a choice, such as to marry Mr. Collins, that would effect her the rest of her life and surely make her miserable and regret her decision. The proposal came to Elizabeth, "before she had time for anything but a blush of surprise." (page 79) This only added to the graveness of her tone when she responded to his "over the top" flattery. She answered him as politely as possible saying, "you are too hasty sir, you forget that I have made no answer. Let me do it without further loss of time. Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me. I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them... you could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so." (pages 81-82) With this, Elizabeth tried to make her opinion/ refusal known, but Mr. Collins would not hear of it. He was charmed by everything about her. Her refusal only made him more persistent. Women usually have this effect on men. With the right acts and gestures, they can have men do just about anything for them.

At the end of the book, this womanly strength presents itself again. Mr. Darcy finally makes it known that he is deeply in love with Elizabeth. He even proposes to her "against his better judgement." Elizabeth; however, refuses his offer seeing as to how she cannot even imagine being with the one person who tore her sister and Mr. Bingley apart, along with destroying officer Wickham's life. The reasons were unknown to her, making her refusal as valid and agreeable to the reader as possible, but later on in the novel, Mr. Darcy provides her with a note explaining what really happened and why it occurred in that way. Being away from Elizabeth made Darcy sad, mad, and with many other mixed emotions. He felt he had to be near her in order to be happy. He did everything he could to help her family and to show Elizabeth that he could be worthy of her love if she let him. Like mentioned before, women have this effect on men. Men are very competitive. This is for the sole reason that they want to impress and win over women so that they may have a successful life and a grand partner to share it with (grand partner in each persons particular eyes.) Women will always have a leading reign on men. Men are like animals, they many times cannot control themselves when they find someone they like and might even love. This makes women on a pedestal compared to men, and it will always be like this. There is nothing in the world that could change this.