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Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bingley's arrival in the Bennett family's neighborhood is an event that produces much excitement. The novel opens with the news that he has, in fact,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Much Ado About Nothing is, of course, the most plausible Shakespearean source for Pride and Prejudice. However, other comedies feature strong friendships between women that in some ways mirror the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Social class is highly important in Pride and Prejudice, as it was in the society Austen was depicting. English society in the early 19th century was hierarchical, rather than equalitarian, meaning...
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Pride and Prejudice
The Netherfield ball is one of the highlights of the social season—anyone who's anyone in the surrounding area is there. So it's vitally important for the Bennets, whose social status is less...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, literary theories around economic and class distinctions are important issues at play. The story revolves around the Bennet family, which consists of five...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bingley has danced with and shown an interest in Jane, Mrs. Bennet's oldest daughter, at the Meryton assembly, which attracts the mother's attention. We learn that Mr. Bingley had danced with...
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Pride and Prejudice
Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy change quite a bit over the course of the novel. Darcy realizes that his pride in his dealings with Mr. Wickham after Wickham tried to elope with Darcy's sister,...
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Pride and Prejudice
A static character is a minor character that does not undergo any character development. Examples of static characters in Pride and Prejudice are: all three of the younger sisters, Mrs. Bennet,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth's teasing of Darcy causes him to fall in love with her. This is the last effect Elizabeth expected it to have on him. Elizabeth starts teasing him because she is offended after she...
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Pride and Prejudice
Netherfield House is the house rented by Mr. Bingley, a wealthy newcomer to town. Although we don’t learn much about Netherfield House itself throughout the book, we do know that it is close to...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth's refusal of Darcy's proposal reflects her feelings toward his arrogance and condescension. Although Darcy begins by telling Elizabeth that she must allow him to profess how "ardently" he...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet scolds Kitty for her persistent coughing, which, as well as being rather annoying, plays havoc with Mrs. Bennet's already fragile nervous system. That Mrs. Bennet should show such...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet is blessed with many features that make her an especially attractive young lady. As well as being good-looking, like her sister Lydia—she's also highly intelligent, unlike her...
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Pride and Prejudice
In RACES, the R stands for Restating the question; the A is for Answering the question; the C stands for citing evidence to support your answer; the E is for Explaining how the evidence supports...
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Pride and Prejudice
The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice does several things very adoitly. It serves as a thesis sentence for the entire novel. It displays Jane Austen's subtle sense of human. It also displays...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth dislikes Charles Bingley's sisters, Caroline and Louisa, almost from the get go. She meets them at the ball near the beginning of the book when Darcy...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen are an example of a marriage held together by custom and complacency rather than by any deep intellectual or emotional ties. Mr....
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Pride and Prejudice
Gender roles and expectations absolutely dictate life in the society described in Pride and Prejudice. Class and gender during this time period were closely intertwined, with women above a certain...
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Pride and Prejudice
Some of the psychological aspects found in Pride and Prejudice are identity of self, problem solving, and expression of feelings.Self-identity: Both Elizabeth and Darcy experience changes in...
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Pride and Prejudice
By the end of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth decides to marry Darcy because she has come to realize what a genuinely caring, selfless, goodhearted man Darcy truly is and that she had...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, the reader is captivated by the love story between Jane and Mr. Bingley as well of the love-hate relationship between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. The strucutre of the novel...
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Pride and Prejudice
Besides Elizabeth's general dislike of Darcy's arrogant nature, her two primary reasons for spurning his declaration of love and offer of marriage are that he "ruin[ed], perhaps forever, the...
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Pride and Prejudice
In volume 2 of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth becomes ever more strident in expressing her opinions, ever more certain that she is always in the right. It is only later on in the book that...
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Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourgh is a widowed and wealthy aristocrat who is so used to being in charge that she can't imagine her opinion could be wrong or that anyone would not obey her imperious...
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Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourgh is not, at first, related to the Bennet family and, in fact, scorns them as beneath her. The Bennets get involved with her because she is the patron of their cousin Mr....
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Pride and Prejudice
One image is trimming on a hat. In the second chapter, Elizabeth is seen trimming her hat and her father suggests she is doing it in preparation for meeting Bingley. Another good image is the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Technically, Pride and Prejudice is told as a third-person omniscient narrative, but for most of the novel the story is presented as seen through the limited perspective of Elizabeth Bennett. The...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam have a very personal conversation while on a walk. Colonel Fitzwilliam is Darcy's cousin. He is Darcy's command. While sharing a walk...
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Pride and Prejudice
Darcy's letter to Elizabeth is extremely important in terms of both conflict and characterization in the novel. Darcy's letter, much in the way that he intended to explain himself to Elizabeth,...
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Pride and Prejudice
All three characters belong to the upper echelons of English society. In the case of Darcy and Miss Bingley, their elevated social status manifests itself in a snobbery that regards those lower...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Collins is exceedingly arrogant, far too pleased with himself, and kind of a jerk. He doesn't come off as a genuine person because he's either detached in thoughts of his social status or...
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Pride and Prejudice
Unfortunately, you asked three questions and are only allowed one per post, so I had to edit the second two. Please feel free to ask those questions separately in additional posts. In chapter...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Collins speaks highly of Lady Catherine de Bourgh because of three things. The first reason is his mentality. The second is his employment. The third is his aspirations. As to Collins'...
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Pride and Prejudice
The letters in "Pride and Predudice" help communicate important information and allow Austen to quickly communicate information that would have taken much longer if written in narrative form. In...
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Pride and Prejudice
For much of the novel, the antagonist is, in fact, Mr. Darcy. This is established at the Meryton assembly scene when he makes hurtful comments about Elizabeth’s “tolerable” beauty. His role...
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Pride and Prejudice
The narrative situation in Pride and Prejudice is that almost all of the action in the novel is seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Bennet. Not everything is narrated through her eyes: the opening...
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Pride and Prejudice
The setting of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, like that of all her novels, is a small town in the prosperous south of England. The significance is that it enables her to examine lives...
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Pride and Prejudice
The final message that Pride and Prejudice gives us is that love conquers all. A message that Jane Austen was determined to write into her novels since she observed that it was impossible to...
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Pride and Prejudice
Even Darcy himself struggles to answer this question. In chapter 60, Elizabeth asks Darcy to explain how, when, or why he fell in love with her: she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever...
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Pride and Prejudice
I assume that you mean Mrs. Bennet's plan when it comes to getting Mr. Collins to marry one of her daughters. Mr. Collins has already hinted that he is interested in smoothing over past family...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet's ideas about marriage differ from the majority of others in her society because she believes that members of couples ought to get to know each other before making life-long...
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Pride and Prejudice
After arriving home, Elizabeth can't wait to tell Jane that Mr. Darcy proposed, and when they are finally alone, she delivers the news. Jane is at first astonished, but this feeling quickly passes...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Wickham's primary motivation in the novel is to marry for financial security. He is arguably the most selfish character in the novel. When he is first introduced he is presented as a charming...
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Pride and Prejudice
As Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice draws to a conclusion, its protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, has angrily rejected the marriage proposal of the wealthy Mr. Darcy, believing that he has wrongly...
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Pride and Prejudice
In the book, Mr. Bennet treats Mrs. Bennet with resigned acceptance. He is aware that his wife is his intellectual inferior and possesses poor judgment in many matters. However, being a faithful...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth's aunt, Mrs. Gardiner, is from the same area as Mr. Darcy. When the Gardiners are introduced in chapter 25 of the novel, she tells Elizabeth about both Wickham and Darcy. Mrs....
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bennet has many fine qualities, which are sometimes overshadowed temporarily by her less praiseworthy ones. In particular, Lizzie is a loyal sister, friend, and daughter. She is...
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Pride and Prejudice
The title Pride and Prejudice refers to the two main characters in the novel, Elizabeth Bennet and Lord Darcy. Elizabeth is traditionally associated with prejudice. She conceives a dislike for...
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Pride and Prejudice
One of Jane Austen's purposes in her comedies of manners is to highlight the manners revolving around the project of getting married--or not getting married. A large generalized description of the...
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Pride and Prejudice
The words come from chapter 16 of Pride and Prejudice and are spoken by Elizabeth Bennet in conversation with Mr. Wickham. The dastardly Wickham has been doing his best to build on Elizabeth's...
