Mr darcy from pride and prejudice5/10/2023 ![]() Darcy is sexy and compelling because he is a strong and powerful figure, but also because he respects the strength and power of Elizabeth Bennet. They had to do with a desire for total admiration from someone worthy to give it. ![]() But my fantasies had nothing to do with wanting, deep down, a patriarchal, dominating or controlling man. Darcy when I first read Pride and Prejudice. I myself sighed quite a few yearning sighs over Mr. Darcy, assuming that he is the “epitome of the dominant patriarchal male” and that upon marriage he will turn out to be “rigid, dominating and controlling.” But Potter-like Elizabeth Bennet herself-has utterly misread Mr. Darcy, especially among “educated literary feminist women,” reflects confusion about what women really want. ![]() Potter believes this predilection for Mr. ![]() ![]() Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice” remains the heterosexual women’s “favorite fictional romantic icon.” As she notes, he is the character women across generations most want to date, according to a poll of 1,900 women by the Orange Prize for Fiction. I am disturbed by a 2004 editorial in “The Guardian”, which I found during my last Austen research spree. ![]()
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