The Key Components Of A Good Father

Nurturing your children, providing emotional support, and fostering are the key components of being a good father; absence in a child’s life, and making a mockery of the person who should love and respect is pure neglect. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet is a father raising five daughters. Mr. Bennet raises his five daughters with his wife, Mrs. Bennet. As a couple who married while they were young, often their relationship can be rocky due to them marrying each other for their physical attributes, not because they actually love each other. Mrs. Bennet focuses primarily on making sure her five daughters get married to achieve security for their futures, just as she married Mr. Bennet for her security. Mr. Bennet often stays isolated from his family in his personal library, never interacting with them outside of meals.

Bennet can be seen as a neglectful, incompetent father due to him choosing himself over his children, not interacting with his family, nor providing respect to his wife. Although it could be said that providing basic needs for your children is enough to be a successful father, it is not. Instilling fear into your beloved children due to repetitive behaviors that they observe is not something a good father would do. Providing ample respect for your wife is key, not only does it solidify your relationship with her, but it demonstrates to your children what kind of man they should marry. Hindering their educational development because Mr. Bennet hates London is not a proper excuse to waste a possible education that your children could have attained. Overall, Mr. Bennet lacks the qualities of an acceptable father. The elements of an adequate father are respecting those around you so you provide a basis of a role model, but most of all if Mr. Bennet was a good father he would do anything for his children. Mr. Bennet would put those he should love above everything else, but he chooses to only see his own