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In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen successfully incorporates various social and mental awakenings that, in turn, serve as significant turning points in the novel. These dramatic shifts in character, much like Elizabeth’s evolving perception of Darcy and the foreshadowing of Lydia’s “imprudent” marriage to Wickham, correspondingly convey a sense of suspense and excitement to the reader. Ultimately, the use of such devices encourage the reader to read further into the text, and help produce a feeling of excitement, and a much anticipated climax. In the beginning of the novel Jane Austen gives a brief insight into the relationship of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, revealing how Mr. Bennet "Captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humor….had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind, had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her” causing his “respect, esteem, and confidence to be vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness to be overthrown." Ironically Wickham’s actions, particularly his fondness of 15 year old Lydia Bennet is strikingly similar to that of Mr. Bennets’s. Consequently, with his knowledge regarding how Mrs. Bennet �