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Mr. William Collins
Mr. William Collins is a fictional character in the novel ''Pride and Prejudice'' by Jane Austen. He is the cousin of Mr. Bennet, and is the clergyman at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosing’s Park, the estate of his patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh. Since Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have no sons, Mr. Collins is the heir to the Bennet estate. Mr. Collins is first introduced during his visit to Longbourn, Mr. Bennet's estate.
==Background==
Collins, who is 25 years old as the novel begins, is described as being tall and heavy. He is said to be an insensible man who was raised by “an illiterate and miserable” father, and has not been improved by education or society. Austen writes that prior to his entry into the novel, his circumstances had “originally given him great humility of manner” . However, this characteristic has been altered greatly and been replaced with arrogance and vanity due to “early and unexpected prosperity”. This early prosperity came by chance at the hand of Lady Catherine de Bourgh when a vacancy arose for the living of Hunsford.
He has a ridiculously high regard for Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her daughter, of whom he is “eloquent in their praise”. It is partially due to his newly gained favor with Lady Catherine and his position as a rector that he possesses so much vanity. He is described as being a "mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility".〔 Mr. Collins is usually considered to be the foil to Mr. Darcy, who is grave and serious, and acts with propriety at all times. On the other hand, Mr. Collins acts with impropriety and exaggerated humility, which offers some comedic relief.
He likes ''things'', especially if they are expensive or numerous, but is indifferent to beauty: "Here, leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind. He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant clump."
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