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pptx2. Implications
① Lydia’s elopement
② Lydia’s character
③ The reaction of the family about Lydia’s elopement
④ Elizabeth’s insight
⑤ Elizabeth’s change about Mr. Darcy
⑥ People’s response of Lydia’s elopement
3. Discussion Questions
In Lambton, Elizabeth receives two letters from Jane stating that Lydia was gone off to ‘Scotland’ with Wickham. In that time, people could get married easily without their parent’s permission in there. Their escape to ‘Scotland’ can imply their hasty marriage, so Elizabeth is seriously worried about the matter. Mr. Darcy appears and hears the dreadful news. Then he offers words of consolation and she is ashamed of family’s inferiority and realized her power is sinking. And Elizabeth and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner go to Longbourn.
Mr. Bennet goes to London to find Lydia, and Mrs. Bennet is in hysterics. And Mr. Grardiner decides to go to London and help Mr. Bennet. Jane shows Lydia’s letter to Elizabeth, and the two sisters keep thinking Lydia’s escape.
A few days later, they receive Mr. Gardiner’s letter stating that Wickham has heavy gambling debts about a thousand pounds. Next day, Mr. Bennet finally returns and thinks he should be more cautious of his daughters in the future.
Two days later, Mr. Gardiner writes that he has found Lydia and Wickham and that they are not married. Elizabeth is surprised and Mr. Bennet wonders how much Mr. Gardiner might have added to cover it and if he owes him for it. Mrs. Bennet immediately becomes happy and begins planning the wedding.
Mr. Bennet decides to repay Mr. Gardiner and writes him accepting the offer of marriage and asking what he owes and announces that Lydia and Wickham will not be welcome in his home. Elizabeth regrets that she told Darcy about Lydia’s escape which can leads his admiration disappeard. She decides she could be happy with him and thinks she will never see him again. Mr. Gardiner replies to Mr. Bennet stating Wickham has decided to move to the North and Mr. Bennet accepts Wickham visit the home so Lydia can see their sister before she head north.
When they have been married, Lydia and Wickham arrive to the Bennet household where Mrs. Bennet is excited and Mr. Bennet is quiet and unhappy. Lydia brags about her wedding despite Elizabeth’s disinterest, but when she mentions Darcy having been at the wedding, she becomes very curious, so she writes a letter to Mrs. Gardiner to ask about the situation.
2. Implications
1) Lydia’s elopement
Jane sent a letter to Elizabeth. The letter told about Lydia’s Elopement.
But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife. (181)
☞ This episode show that the imprudent marriage produce bad result.
Elizabeth soon observed, and instantly understood it. Her power was sinking; everything must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain. (210)
☞This episode is turning point that Lizzy see Darcy’s character in a new light.
