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The unfairly treated Mary Bennet
There’s no doubt that Mary Bennet is an unimportant character in Jane Austen’s
“Pride and Prejudice”. While the conflicts and incidents develop with the growth of love
between Eliza and Darcy, Mary only appears for a few times. Every time she is mentioned,
she is disgraced and affected. However, though she is unpleasant, she is certainly poor.
The formation of Mary’s disposition is related to her experience. As John Bayley said,
“the unfortunate Mary is the only one among Jane Austen’s characters who never gets a
fair deal from the author at all, any more than she does from her father.” On the one
hand, under the influence of limited heritage, Mary and her sisters would not have a
stable and comfortable life provided that they should not be able to marry. On the other
hand, compared to her sisters, Mary was ordinary-looking, less-talented and unintelligent.
Even when compared with plain Charlotte Lucas, she was more unfortunate since the
former was deeply caring by her family. On the contrary, in Mary’s family, the father
showed preference to Eliza, the mother doted on two younger daughters, the two older
sisters were intimate. It is conceivable that Mary had been living in solitude and being
ignored since an early age.
Vanity was the most obvious sign of Mary. In her own words, “Vanity and pride are
different things, though the words are often used synonymously.” A person may be
proud without being vain. On the surface, she was very proud of her intelligence, but in
fact, she cared more about the outside views than anyone else and was more eager to gain
the compliment of others. In order to establish a more knowledgeable image, she liked to
show off her talent, always wanted to express profound comments and strongly believed
in reason.
Nevertheless, at the end of the novel, Mary played the role as the only unmarried
daughter, in which case she had to take part in several activities at the request of her
mother. “She was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and
her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much
reluctance”. Here the author pointed out that Mary’s indifference attitude towards
sociality possibly because of her unwillingness to be compared with her sisters. As a
conclusion, Mary’s eagerness for knowledge was not so sincere. She hoped to become a
knowledgeable woman in order to win attention and cover the plain image in the shadow
of her sisters.
Mary’s fate is pretty unjust. Compared to Jane Eyre who is equally ordinary, she is
less independent and less confident. As a consequence, though she had paid a lot of
efforts, she didn’t get the recognition and care of others which she had been pursuing.
The unfortunate of Mary comes from three aspects. Firstly, she was unconfident and
vanity, and the two characters promoted each other. Secondly, her family found her
shortcomings without giving her enough care, which leads to her character defect. Thirdly,
the era was not conducive for women to improve themselves through efforts. To some
extent, Mary is pitiful. Perhaps this is why Cowling McCullough wrote the book “the
Independence of Miss Mary Bennet”, imagining the wonderful life she could have owned.
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