Mrs. Bennet did care for her girls and wanted the best for them. Many readers seem to think that Mrs. Bennet was a social climber in wanting her daughters to marry wealth and/or position, but I've never seen any indication of that in the novel.
What is interesting is that many readers give Mr. Bennet a pass as a father or think that he is a "good" father. He really wasn't. He was a "cool" father, and for only one daughter (Lizzie). He exhibits very little concern for his daughters (except occasionally for Lizzie), and is, in his own way, as silly as he claims his wife to be.
Thank You, dear Beatrice, for this heaetfelt contribution and for the sensitive fade into the fictionary world like that of Jane Austen and her characters (in this case, in that of mrs Bennet-mother).
This one, being of an archetypal nature, is at times much more intense and real of the world itself, that we use to define as real.
I believe that the gift of motherhood, in addition to being an esclusive right of women, is also their esclusive privilege.
I speak to You as a father; if it is true that men lacks the visceral nature of pregnancy and childbirth, it is also true that this lack is returned to them entirely from an emotional point of vieuw. What is taken away to men in terms of viscerality, is largely returned in terms of pride, and I believe that this can make them similar at least from the point of vieuw of intensity. (of feelings)
I believe that you are correct and insightful.
Mrs. Bennet did care for her girls and wanted the best for them. Many readers seem to think that Mrs. Bennet was a social climber in wanting her daughters to marry wealth and/or position, but I've never seen any indication of that in the novel.
What is interesting is that many readers give Mr. Bennet a pass as a father or think that he is a "good" father. He really wasn't. He was a "cool" father, and for only one daughter (Lizzie). He exhibits very little concern for his daughters (except occasionally for Lizzie), and is, in his own way, as silly as he claims his wife to be.
Thank You, dear Beatrice, for this heaetfelt contribution and for the sensitive fade into the fictionary world like that of Jane Austen and her characters (in this case, in that of mrs Bennet-mother).
This one, being of an archetypal nature, is at times much more intense and real of the world itself, that we use to define as real.
I believe that the gift of motherhood, in addition to being an esclusive right of women, is also their esclusive privilege.
I speak to You as a father; if it is true that men lacks the visceral nature of pregnancy and childbirth, it is also true that this lack is returned to them entirely from an emotional point of vieuw. What is taken away to men in terms of viscerality, is largely returned in terms of pride, and I believe that this can make them similar at least from the point of vieuw of intensity. (of feelings)
Thanks again, Beatrice.
Your contributions are always hugely ispiring.
From the heart
Flavio