Pride and Prejudice

Marriage

Love

Men

Women

Reputation

Class

Pride

Prejudice

Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bingley, Mr and Mrs Bennet, Charlotte and Collins, Whickam and Lydia

Mr and Mrs Bennet have been married a long time, though Mr Bennet has had enough of Mrs Bennet

'You mistake me, my dear. I have high respects for your nerves. They are my old friends.'

Elizabeth and Darcy didnt like each other at the beginning, but they grew to like each other

'tolerable'

Darcy

Bingley

Collins

Mr Wickham

Lies to Elizabeth about his past

Elopes with Lydia

Thinks of himself

Opposite of Darcy

Happy personality

Elizabeth is prejudice towards him

Looks down on people

Pompous

Obsequious

Wants to please Lady C

Important in marriage

Marry within your class

Darcy and Elizabeth go against the rule because of love

Important to Elizabeth and Austen

Charlotte marries for security not love when Mr Collins offers

'It is a truth universally acknowledge that a single man in procession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'

'Mr Bennet made no answer'

Free indirect discourse, irony of overstatement

Ignores her

'My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself)'

Elizabeth

Lydia

Mrs Bennet

Miss Bingley

All she wants is for her daughters to be married as they inherit nothing from Mr Bennet

'The business of her life was to get her daughters married: its solace was visiting and news'

Headstrong and has strong views

She worries about her sisters reputation when eloping with Wickham

Doesn't like the lower class Bennets, and wants to marry Darcy

Judges Elizabeth when she walks to see her sister

'His sense of her inferiority - of its being a degradation - of the family obstacles'

His pride his hurt as she is a lower class

'He meant to provide for me amply'

'alone, quite alone'

Lydia's reputation is ruined when she elopes with Mr Wickham

Women had to get married or would lose their reputation

Elizabeth is prejudiced against Mr Darcy at the start of the novel, but she changes to love him after she reads his letter

"Abomnibal pride"

"For he was discovered to be proud"

Context

Austen lived in the regency period and people thought that a woman would marry for stability not love

Higher social class in the novel are satarised

Lady Catherine

"There are few people in England who have more enjoyment in music than myself, or a better musical taste. if i had ever learnt, i should be a great proficient"