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    This document discusses several archetypes found in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It analyzes Lydia Bennet as representing the "innocent" archetype as she naively elopes with Mr. Wickham, despite his untrustworthy nature. Mr. Bennet is described as the "wise old man" who offers wise advice to his daughters and does not force them into marriages. The hero of the story, Mr. Darcy, ensures Lydia marries Wickham, saving Elizabeth Bennet and her family from ruin, with Elizabeth representing the "damsel in distress" in this scenario.

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    This document discusses several archetypes found in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It analyzes Lydia Bennet as representing the "innocent" archetype as she naively elopes with Mr. Wickham, despite his untrustworthy nature. Mr. Bennet is described as the "wise old man" who offers wise advice to his daughters and does not force them into marriages. The hero of the story, Mr. Darcy, ensures Lydia marries Wickham, saving Elizabeth Bennet and her family from ruin, with Elizabeth representing the "damsel in distress" in this scenario.

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    This document discusses several archetypes found in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It analyzes Lydia Bennet as representing the "innocent" archetype as she naively elopes with Mr. Wickham, despite his untrustworthy nature. Mr. Bennet is described as the "wise old man" who offers wise advice to his daughters and does not force them into marriages. The hero of the story, Mr. Darcy, ensures Lydia marries Wickham, saving Elizabeth Bennet and her family from ruin, with Elizabeth representing the "damsel in distress" in this scenario.

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    Archetypes Here, Archetypes There, Archetypes Everywhere!

    Archetype/Pride and Prejudice/Jane Austen/Innocent/Wise/Hero/Marriage

    There are many archetypes in Pride and Prejudice like marriage, the villain, the wise old man,
    the hero, the damsel in distress, and the innocent. To start off I will talk about my least favorite
    archetype, why this is my least favorite has to do with the character herself, Lydia. I see Lydia
    as the innocent archetype, Lydia proves herself innocent in many instances throughout the
    book. To begin with, her obsession with soldiers (gross). Lydia is basically in love with every
    soldier that looks her way or talks to her. Even if they have no real interest in her, she thinks
    they really do. Here's the real kicker at what makes Lydia so, so innocent. Lydia is so innocent,
    dare I say stupid, that she marries “The Villain” Mr. Wickham. I shall not go into details, but all
    you need to know is that Mr. Wickham is a very untrustworthy, conniving fool. Despite all these
    characteristics of the lovely Mr. Wickham (note the sarcasm) Lydia being the little 16-year-old
    she is, she decides to elope with him without her parents’ knowledge. Her parents and sisters
    (except for one) had no idea that Lydia and Mr. Wickham were even together. I will go in more
    depth about their elopement whilst I talk about the hero. 

    Next up we have the lovely wise old man, Mr. Bennet. Mr. Bennet is the father of Elizabeth, the
    protagonist, and many times throughout the book he proves to be quite the wise old owl. To be
    fair he can be quite annoying at times, but that is a topic for another day. He doesn't say a lot,
    but when he does prepare to be blown away with his wise words. I mean I'm not blown away,
    but his daughters and other people in the book definitely are. Mr. Bennet tells Elizabeth if she
    marries Mr. Collins, he will never speak to her again, which I love because the mom is so
    adamant on Lizzy marrying that man, but the father is like “No, don’t, if you do, I will never talk
    to you again”. It’s just fabulous. I really like his character because he doesn’t force his daughters
    to do things they don’t want to do, like getting married, he doesn’t care. That is all I have to say
    about our dear, old, and wise fellow. Since he says so little, he can't expect me to say much.

    I’ll kill two birds with this stone, as to not bore you all, and talk about the hero and the damsel in
    distress in one go. You're welcome, hold your applause. Our hero, Mr. Darcy, is the reason why
    Lydia and Mr. Wickham got married. Now, I know you must be saying, but Emma, I thought you
    hated Lydia, Mr. Wickham and their marriage. You would be correct; I do dislike them. However,
    in the beginning when Mr. Wickham somehow convinced our innocent little Lydia to go away
    with him, he did not plan on marrying her and basically just wanted to ruin her and her family.
    So, the lovely Mr. Darcy found Mr. Wickham and Lydia and convinced Mr. Wickham to Marry
    Lydia. Mr. Darcy did all of this for his one true love, Elizabeth. He saw that she was in so much
    distress so he did all he could and a whole lot more. In this whole instance Elizabeth was the
    damsel in distress and the hero saved her and her whole family from ruin.

    That is all I shall say for now as I have capped my word count. If you haven't seen Pride and
    Prejudice (2005 version duh), what are you doing, go watch it.

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