Easter Assignment- Mr. Bennet

Mr. Bennet is an observant and humorous man.
Mr. Bennet is the owner of the Longbourn estate. He lives there with his wife Mrs. Bennet and their five children Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Lydia, and Kitty. He is an intelligible man, with a sarcastic attitude. He enjoys making quirky remarks about his family and friends: “If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it […] This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree […] I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish” (Austen 30). But unfortunately his sarcastic attitude makes him very detached from his family and society. He does not really care enough about his family to punish his family for inappropriate behavior. Thus his family acts very peculiarly due to the lack of his enforcement of rules. And society ostracizes him and his family as strange people due to his family’s peculiarity.
Mr. Bennet is like a witticism. He is knowledgeable about people, life, and society. He also is humorous and sarcastic which enhances his witty observations. But like any witticism, he may be funny but he is useless to his family or anyone else in day to day life. He does not help to solve problems throughout the book because he is only useful in regards to funny facts about life. Instead of helping to find a resolution to problems in the book he is the actually the cause to most of the families problems. He does teach his children proper or ethical behavior. Instead he separates himself from his family and makes funny observations about them.
Mr. Bennet is like Dick Cheney in the sense that they both talk about problems they observed but they play no role in the resolution of the problem.