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"