Mr. Collins : Funny or Nightmare?

Mr. Collins, I would say, is a funny nightmare. I say this because his character represents the nightmare of the 19th century ideals of marrying for wealth and the goal of upping ones social status instead of from the basis of love and real personal relationships. This becomes clear when Collins proposes to Elizabeth and states how it would benefit her to marry him since her family is not of the upper class and he doesn't make any mention of having real feelings towards her, thus clearly expressing the 19th century social norm of marriage without love. However, even though Mr.  Collins represents a nightmare, he is also a comic relief in the novel and so he makes the nightmare funny. Everything Collins does and says is exaggerated in a way to make the ideals that he is representing comical and create a sense of relief from a rather grave truth and reality. 

Essay Comments

The comments on my essay stated that my strengths were definitely in my insight, reasoning and my tendency to think and analyze. I take pride in these qualities because I think that they are very important aspects of creating a strong essay. My weaknesses were in my wording and sentence structure. I know these are things I can improve and work on by writing more and also revising my essays more. So I plan on refining both of those aspects and similar ones for my next essay.

The Most Important Part Of An Essay

I believe that to write an amazing essay, one must have a very clear and specific idea that they wish to write about. And in an essay that idea would be expressed in the thesis, so I believe that the thesis is the most important part of any essay. A thesis needs to be clear but interesting, the ideas need to be complex but the expression of them must remain simple, it needs to be in depth but not detailed, it needs to spark understanding in the reader while at the same time making them question and encouraging them to read more, and most importantly a thesis needs to express the writers main focus and the rest of the essay that follows is their explanation.
Of the student essays that i've read so far I would definitely have to say that the author of essay B "Its All About the First Impressions: How Austen and Greene Introduce Characters" did the best at creating a polished thesis and then he/she proved their claim in a well structured essay. 

Sample Student Essays #3

Today I read essays G,H and I. I have to be honest.. I didn't like any of them. G was completely over simplified, H doesn't have a specific idea or topic, and I just didn't really make sense to me. But if I had to chose one of them to get the highest grade it would be I because even though I didn't quite understand the main point the author was trying to make, he/she at least had a developed idea that they elaborated on and analyzed in their essay unlike the authors of G and H.

Sample Student Essays #2

This time I read essays D,E and F. Out of these three essays I must say that I liked F "Contradiction of conformity: How Austen shapes our opinions of characters" the most. The author wrote on the same topic (the use of foils in character introductions) that I was considering writing on, so it was interesting to see how another person interpreted that topic and how they wrote on it compared to what I had planned. And I must say that I liked the way it was put together and I agree with the points and ideas that the author focussed on and I probably would have used the same ones if I had decided to write on that topic. Even though I don't really know which sentence is the thesis in the introduction and some of the sentences are very wordy, I still enjoyed it and think that it works well and achieves what an introduction paragraph should. And as for the rest of the essay there are a few aspects that bother me, such as the excessive use of quotes in the third paragraph, but overall I think it is a pretty good essay. 

Sample Student Essays

I read sample essays A,B and C. I liked essay B "Its All About the First Impressions: How Austen and Greene Introduce Characters" the most because unlike essay A which I thought had a very shallow thesis, the writer of essay B completely analyzed their topic and created a very precise and in depth thesis that also struck the interest of the reader (me). And since the writer had so clearly outlined their ideas in the thesis, the essay was very well organized and each paragraph was analytical and detailed. I thought overall it was a well developed essay.

Introduction Through Dialogue

Austen uses the basic element of dialogue to introduce her characters. She breaks it down into both direct and indirect dialogue to show that the tendency to prejudge people is not just that of a society but it is the human nature of every individual, and through Austen's introductions she gives the reader the chance to evaluate their own prejudices along with those of society.