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Mr bennet pride and prejudice5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() īorn to a father who is described as "illiterate and miserly", the son, William Collins is not much better '(sans the miser part)'. Unless Mr Bennet has a son (which he and Mrs Bennet have no expectation of), the estate of £2,000-per-annum will pass to Mr Collins. The property is entailed to heirs male, meaning that Mr Bennet's daughters and their issue cannot inherit after Mr. Mr William Collins, 25 years old as the novel begins, is Mr Bennet's distant cousin, a clergyman, and the heir presumptive to Mr Bennet's estate of Longbourn. Mr Collins is also somewhat comparable to the Shakespearean character, Malvolio, from Twelfth Night. His dull-witted character is in parallel to another 'Austen' character, Mr. Mr Collins is first introduced during his visit to Longbourn. Since Mr and Mrs Bennet have no sons, Mr Collins is also the current heir presumptive to the Bennet family estate of Longbourn in Meryton, Hertfordshire, due to the estate being entailed to heirs male. ![]() He is the distant cousin of Mr Bennet, a clergyman and holder of a valuable living at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosings Park, the estate of his patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh, in Kent. Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. ![]()
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