When Charlotte Lucas married Mr. Collins in Jane Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice, she believed herself to be fortunate indeed. Her nuptials
gained her a comfortable home and financial security. If she acquired
these things at the expense of true love, it did not matter one whit. To
Charlotte, love in marriage was nothing more than a pleasant
coincidence.
As the years of her marriage dragged by, Charlotte
began to question her idea of love as she suffered continual
embarrassment at her husband’s simpering and fawning manners. When Mr.
Collins dies, finally relieving everyone of his tedious conversation,
she must work feverishly to secure her income and home. She gives no
further thought to the possibility of love until her flighty sister
Maria begs her to act as her chaperone in place of their ailing parents.
Hoping to prevent Maria from also entering an unhappy union, Charlotte
agrees, and they are quickly thrust into a world of country dances,
dinner parties, and marriageable gentlemen.
But when an
unprincipled gentleman compromises Charlotte’s reputation, her romantic
thoughts disappear at the prospect of losing her independence. As she
struggles to extricate herself from her slander, her situation reveals
both the nature of each gentleman and of true love.
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