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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, life for the upper-middle class and the aristocracy was simple and comfortable, at least on the surface. Strict manners and “morals,” that often prevented them from asserting or protecting themselv ....

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.... a spinster for the rest of her life, had to marry soon, and the only man that made a proposal was Collins, therefore she had to say yes. Mrs. Bennet, the mother of Eliza, always hurriedly rushes about to get her daughters married. Her haste is understandable, partly, because, the Bennet family has no male heir, therefore any daughters left unmarried will be thrust into poverty upon their father’s death. However, most of her rushing seems nothing more than the nagging, useless bickering of a gossiping old biddy. Mr. Bingley seems not to be a victim per se, but the people around him and their superficial motives tend to cause him harm. His sis ....