Topic > Jealousy and Greed in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Wickham and Mr. Darcy. Although Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham are not related by blood, they can be considered family members as they grow up together from a young age, but as they grow older, Mr. Wickham's jealousy and greed for materialistic wealth ruins their family. like the relationship. Darcy's father was very fond of Mr. Wickham when he was still alive. Mr. Darcy wrote in the letter to Elizabeth: “My father supported him in school, as his father, always poor owing to his wife's extravagances, would not be able to provide him with a gentleman's education. My father not only enjoyed the company of this young man, whose manners were always endearing; he also had a higher opinion of him, and hoping that the church was his profession, he intended to provide it for him. (Volume II, Chapter XII, page 181) Darcy also stated that his father left Mr. Wickham “an inheritance of a thousand pounds.” Darcy's father thinks highly of Wickham for his ways, which according to Mr. Darcy the remark was just a pretense to cover up Wickham's bad behavior. Despite receiving a lot of attention and money from Darcy's father, Wickham began to become greedy as he spent his money on gambling. Not only that, he was fueled by lust as he used his money to pursue women for his sexual pleasure. After spending his inheritance money on gambling and girls instead of focusing on his education to become a priest. After Darcy refuses to provide Wickham with more money, his greed and hunger for money blinds his eyes and he decides to attack Mr. Darcy's dearest sister, Georgiana, partly to hurt Dacy for not giving him more money, as well to the hope of obtaining Georgiana's fortune. . In the same letter that Darcy sends to Elizabeth, Darcy exposes Wickham's true personality. He wrote: “Mr. Wickham's chief object was undoubtedly my sister's estate, which amounts to thirty thousand pounds; but I can't help but guess