If you had seen the mini series of Pride and Prejiduce...How bad an error was it when?

Question

Mr Collins went the wrong way and bumped into a lady dancing in the circle the correct way. It seemed pretty embarrasing. I looked in the eyes of those standing by observing the dance and most were smirking.

Answer 1

it probably was intentional

Answer 2

If you are referring to a blooper on film, no- it was absolutely intentional. It was done to make Mr. Collins seem as bumbling and ridiculous as Austen wanted him to be. It was a big error- in the views that he got the dance wrong. If you notice, he got it wrong several times, and Miss Bennett kept saying, "Mr Collins! THIS way!" For one, it was embarassing for all to see a man of the cloth dancing in the first place. Secondly, the fact that he so loudly claimed to know about everything of the finer lifestyle, the fact that he couldn't dance correctly made him seem that much more like an idiot. And finally, to touch another woman at all, much less bump into one like he did, was of the upmost embarassment in those days.

Answer 3

it was just another example of Mr. Colllin's bumbling charachter. He insisted upon dancing, but then forgot the proper steps nad relied upon his female partner to guide him. Jane Austen wanted to showhim as an uttery laughable cahrachter, someone the witty Elizabeth Bennet would never think about marrying and the A&E version of the story did an extemly good job casting the right actor as Mr. Collins. IN fact all the charchters in that version were VERY well casted.

Answer 4

Yes...