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  • čas přidán 22. 03. 2009
  • Bennets

Komentáře • 64

  • @amawesome3190
    @amawesome3190 Před rokem +181

    For those wondering at the embarrassment when Mary sings; Slumber Dear Maid, even when appropriately sung, is actually a funeral song.

  • @blueberryoatmeal4009
    @blueberryoatmeal4009 Před 9 měsíci +46

    Darcy: Your family is cringe.
    Lizzie: Your family is Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

    • @thegreenmanofnorwich
      @thegreenmanofnorwich Před 7 měsíci +1

      Oh God. Mrs Bennett and Lady Catherine, I don't know which I'd enjoy thr company of least

  • @fs4625
    @fs4625 Před 3 lety +150

    Darcy: You're family is so embarrassing.
    Also Darcy: I hope your family is in good health.

  • @glendodds3824
    @glendodds3824 Před 2 lety +45

    In the book, Mr Bennet and his daughters are gentry and the Bingleys are newcomers to high society, as is Mrs Bennet because she had married up.

    • @camilaribeiro9191
      @camilaribeiro9191 Před 2 lety +6

      The Bingleys are newcomers? I didn’t remember that, which part says it?

    • @lindathompson3982
      @lindathompson3982 Před rokem +9

      @@camilaribeiro9191 I recall, myself, that Mr. Bingley's family had been gentry but not 'aristocracy' wealthy- -but that this changed at some point and the family's fortunes had taken a decided turn for the better; we are not told exactly 'how'
      this happened, only that the Bingley's
      are, by means of this fortune, able to move in the higher circles (you can clearly tell) they have been in and around all of their lives.
      I could be wrong but this is my re-
      membered impression.
      I may go back & re-read, just to be sure.
      Come to think of it, info about the Bingley's was given to readers in the form of repeated gossip, never as clear fact.
      v

    • @feynevan
      @feynevan Před rokem +18

      @@camilaribeiro9191 It’s stated on chapter 4 of the book:
      They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.

    • @joefirma2242
      @joefirma2242 Před rokem +14

      @@feynevan Few understand these days the old snobbery of the landed for families that acquired their fortune by trade.

    • @monmothma3358
      @monmothma3358 Před 11 měsíci +3

      ​@@joefirma2242Yes I do wonder if this was Austen throwing shade on them.
      "Acquired by TRADE 😏 "

  • @victoriadevadanam5488
    @victoriadevadanam5488 Před 3 lety +35

    5:45 🤣🤣🤣. Mr Bingleys expression.

  • @marigold6920
    @marigold6920 Před 2 lety +50

    Oh my goodness, Lizzies family is completely cringe.

    • @l.a.3479
      @l.a.3479 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Except for her father and Jane

  • @christaselig6735
    @christaselig6735 Před 2 lety +96

    I can actually empathize with Elizabeth having a buffoon for a mother myself.

    • @annemccarron2281
      @annemccarron2281 Před rokem +5

      I swear when I was 5 years old my mother embarassed me & she did until the day she died.

    • @zvezdoblyat
      @zvezdoblyat Před rokem +1

      Goodness, can I attest to that. May your mother rest in peace though

    • @Ru136
      @Ru136 Před rokem +1

      Hard same

    • @smollilbean
      @smollilbean Před rokem +4

      The 95 version Mrs Bennett makes me want to slap her so bad! They made her boderline trashy, even more so than the book
      The 2005 version actually makes Mr and Mrs Bennett marriage seem okay, and Mrs Bennett as still embarrassing but bearable!

    • @Ru136
      @Ru136 Před rokem +1

      @@smollilbean 2005 Mrs. Bennet isn't accurate at all which is why she's at least partially bearable

  • @nightowl6260
    @nightowl6260 Před 3 lety +74

    Mrs. Bennet could not have been so bad to have raised Lizzie and Jane to be such fine women. And, she is frank and outspoken, not unlike Lizzie....

    • @musicspace4768
      @musicspace4768 Před rokem +22

      Most likely, the father raised the first two daughters, and left the rest to be raised by the mother.

    • @barbaral743
      @barbaral743 Před rokem +25

      I think the older sisters spent alot of time with the aunt and uncle

    • @smollilbean
      @smollilbean Před rokem +14

      Lizzie is also Frank and outspoken. The difference is that she's classy when she speaks.

  • @aleciawimer8506
    @aleciawimer8506 Před rokem +29

    Mr.Darcy’s family is not so great, either. His aunt….

    • @smollilbean
      @smollilbean Před rokem +5

      lol yes she's exactly like Mrs Bennett.

    • @judithstrachan9399
      @judithstrachan9399 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Except she gets away with it because she’s rich & noble.

  • @shinjineesen400
    @shinjineesen400 Před 2 lety +48

    Mrs Bennet is appallingly rude to Mr Darcy during their visit at Netherfield. True, he takes no effort to ingratiate himself to her. But her comments about "gentlemanly behavior" directed pointedly at Mr Bingley and about "dining with four and twenty families" are no less rude. In Georgian society, she is the wife of a gentleman but not born into gentry herself.
    She and her three younger daughters behave badly at the ball. Mrs Bennet openly boasts of "Bingley's"' attachment. Just like Mrs Elton in Emma, talking about "Knightley". No Mister before his name.
    No smart man of fortune and birth would have wanted to marry a Bennet daughter. Inferior connections, when connections mattered. Little to no dowry. Rudeness and want of public civility from both parents. Lydia and Kitty being common flirts.
    What was not acceptable was the way Mr Darcy proposed talking aboit the deficiencies of the Bennet family, even if they were true. I don't blame him or the Bingley sisters for persuading Mr Bingley away from Netherfield. Mr Bingley with his five thousand pounds and amiable nature could look elsewhere
    Pride and Prejudice, the novel, is a charming fairy tale. A triumph of love and character over calculation and connections. Two wealthy men choosing two sisters who bring only two hundred pounds each to the altar. And the estimable Mr Wickham as a brother-in-law.
    It is not surprising that according to Austen's family, Mr Bingley chose not to buy Netherfield but move closer to Pemberley. I doubt Mr Darcy encouraged Mr and Mrs Bennet or Mary and Kitty to visit overlong. Four to six weeks maximum.
    Mr Darcy would have seen the reputation and status of his family, notably his children, sink a little everytime indiscreet and vulgar Mrs Bennet came to stay. He was the grandson, the nephew and eventually the cousin of earls. His children's connections to these and others were one generation removed. This was a period in history where one's connections by birth or marriage or kinship mattered.

    • @grindupBaker
      @grindupBaker Před rokem +3

      Gor Blimey I'd have been RIGHT OUT then.

    • @smollilbean
      @smollilbean Před rokem

      Dayum

    • @TM15HAKRN
      @TM15HAKRN Před rokem +1

      Mrs. B implacable..
      Darcy disagreeable.. Yet aloof.. Gem of a person... Persistence pays...
      Austen's masterpiece

    • @martabitencourt3982
      @martabitencourt3982 Před 11 měsíci

      É um povo metido a besta. Uma saudação ao mundo atual.

  • @roydownes2458
    @roydownes2458 Před 10 měsíci +4

    i understand and sympathize greatly with mr. darcy. mr. collins, that creepy little worm, is obviously a very distant relation of barnabas...

  • @antonellakennedy9564
    @antonellakennedy9564 Před 3 lety +28

    Poor Mr Bennet

    • @Furienna
      @Furienna Před 3 lety +13

      I feel sorry for Mary.
      She is meant to be a dislikable character for... reasons, but I can only pity her.

    • @daisycook2366
      @daisycook2366 Před rokem +11

      It’s his own fault, he should have been more involved in his daughters’ upbringing, and stopped his wife from letting them run wild.

    • @smollilbean
      @smollilbean Před rokem +8

      Mr Bennett was not a good husband nor a good father to the last 3 of her daughters. He only paid attention to the first two. It is his own fault his family turned out like that.

  • @zvezdoblyat
    @zvezdoblyat Před rokem +21

    I actually liked Mr. Collins in this series. In the 2005 version, he was a twat in every definition of the word.

  • @reclaimedandrested
    @reclaimedandrested Před 3 lety +21

    Mrs. Bennette put Mr. Darcy in his place!

    • @harringt100
      @harringt100 Před 3 lety +14

      Not in any way he felt.

    • @antonellakennedy9564
      @antonellakennedy9564 Před 3 lety +13

      She takes delight at... embarrassing Lizzie ... .

    • @iwaisman
      @iwaisman Před 2 lety +6

      @@antonellakennedy9564 Many times...

    • @GreasyBaconMan
      @GreasyBaconMan Před 2 lety +5

      Mrs Bennet is a smart and at times funny, she knows snobbery when she’s encountered it. She speaks her mind and is not afraid who hears it.

    • @iwaisman
      @iwaisman Před 2 lety

      @@GreasyBaconMan She is not smart, she only cares for money and gossip. And lace.
      An airheaded, hysterical person. Not funny. She makes a foul of herself...

  • @grindupBaker
    @grindupBaker Před 3 lety +1

    It's Lord Ashfordley. I forgot it was the same bloke.

  • @mussoellida4049
    @mussoellida4049 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Non c è in italiano