Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pride and Prejudice: Reputation & Society
- Darcy:
- Thinks he is too good for
everyone in the ball room in the
first chapter.
- Upper class society
- At the start he is rude and impertinent towards
anyone in a lower class
- Defies society by marrying
Elizabeth
- Darcy's reputation is very
important to him
- Quotes:
- 'Truth universally acknowledged...'
- 'She is tolerable, but not
handsome enough to tempt
me.'
- 'Do not make your self uneasy my
dear cousin about your apparel
- V:4 C:11. 'They were intact very fine
ladies... fortune and their own had
been aquired by trade'
- Context:
- Someones reputation and their place in society was
always very important as it defined their life
- When Lydia married Wickham her reputation would have
been destroyed if she didn't as she had a relationship while
unmarried
- Collins proposed to
Elizabeth so she could be
married as every womans
aim should be to marry in
their life