February 18, 2015 09:02PM | Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 409 |
"He was
quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable"
Whereas, in truth, I'm not really any of those things....(-:
Jane Austen had a wonderful sense of creating her players with totally different personalities and also exagerating their characters almost to ridicule . Mr Collins, Lady Catherine, Mrs Bennet, and Lydia etc, are great examples of this. In Bingley, to fit Jane's almost angelic demeanour, she had to have someone who, if he raised his voice may cause Jane to have an attack of vapours. Jane needed someone who was that "man without fault" and, in creating him Jane Austen actually needed a cheerful Charlie, goody-goody guy so much so that she sent him on an eight month holiday to stop him doing anything wrong. In Charles Bingley most males probably see the man who, in their twenties, they would least like to be. Give us a cheerful rake who likes a drop of port, chats up the maid, gets Mr Collins inebriated, and shoots the chandelier down at Lady Catherine's Christmas party claiming it's a vulture. (-:
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