26 Facts About Mr Collins

Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Mr Collins 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.

Since Mr and Mrs Bennet have no sons, Mr Collins is the current heir presumptive to the Bennet family estate of Longbourn in Meryton, Hertfordshire, due to the estate being entailed to heirs male.

Mr Collins is somewhat comparable to the Shakespearean character, Malvolio, from Twelfth Night.

Mr Collins is further described as having "belonged to one of the universities", but he had "merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance", nor accomplishments; despite his time spent in university, his view of the world is no more informed or profound than Mrs Bennet's.

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Mr Collins is an insensible man, obsequious and lacking in common sense, and all too easily defers and kowtows to his social superiors.

Mr Collins's father dies some point not too long before events at the beginning of the novel.

Mr Collins has a ridiculously high regard for Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her daughter, of whom he is "eloquent in their praise".

Mr Collins is usually considered to be the foil to Mr Darcy, who is grave and serious, and acts with propriety at all times.

Mr Collins is first mentioned when Mr Bennet tells his wife that his cousin will be visiting them.

Mr Collins spends the rest of his stay making visits around the neighbourhood with the Bennet sisters, minus Mary.

Mr Collins is quite charmed by this encounter and seems extremely pleased to be treated so well by the family.

Mr Collins continues to pay specific attention to Miss Elizabeth.

Mr Collins first gives Elizabeth a hint of his intentions prior to the Netherfield ball hosted by Charles Bingley.

Mr Collins asks Elizabeth if she will allow him the pleasure of being her partner for the first two dances.

Oblivious to how Elizabeth might be feeling, Mr Collins tells her that "almost as soon as he entered the house, he singled her out as the companion of his future life".

Mr Collins expounds upon his reasons for getting married, which are:.

Mr Collins declares himself to be 'violently in love' with Elizabeth; Elizabeth knows that his professed feelings for her are completely imaginary and that they are a complete mismatch, and all of her attempts to dissuade him had been too subtle for him to recognise.

When Elizabeth rejects his proposal, despite her mother's approval of the match, Mr Collins is quite taken aback and does not believe that she is serious.

Mr Collins had not considered that his proposal would ever be undesirable.

Mr Collins only accepts her refusal once Mrs Bennet admits that it is not likely that Elizabeth intends changing her mind.

Since Mr Collins has very good prospects, Charlotte is determined to gain his favour.

Mr Collins appears in the novel only a few more times, usually via letters.

Morris suggests that though Mr Collins has few dimensions, he is just as rounded as Sense and Sensibility's Edward Ferrars and Colonel Brandon, or Emma's Mr Knightley and Harriet Smith.

Mr Collins has been criticized for taking such a casual view of his own marriage, which is one of the primary concerns of the Church.

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Mr Collins writes about the lack of religious dedication she sees in some clergymen through her character Mr Collins who is "by no means an aspirant to sainthood".