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Pride and Prejudice Themes
- Pride
- Darcy and Lady
Catherine look down on
lower classes
- Collins
- To lower class, he
boasts about his
connections and is
very proud
- To higher
classes, his
pride
vanishes
- Marriage
- Love
- Elizabeth refuses to marry
Collins because she doesn't love
him
- Jane marries
Bingley for love
- Advantage
- Charlotte Lucas
marries Mr Collins
for security in
Chapter 22
- 'Happiness
in
marriage
is entirely
a matter
of chance'
- Mrs Bennet
tries to get
all her
daughters
married so
that they
are secure.
- Money,
connections,
social status,
security
- Love
- Love at first
sight
- Elizabeth will only marry
for love
- Refuses to marry Collins
- Love is a luxury
- Charlotte
doesn't mind
about love
- Mrs Bennet tries to marry Elizabeth
to Collins for their stability
- Social class is
seen as
important
- Darcy stops
Bingley
marrying Jane
- She doesn't love him, only wants
his money
- Social Class
- Jane and Elizabeth
marry into upper
class. Lady
Catherine doesn't
agree with this.
- Lady
Catherine
- Wants upper class
to stay separate
- Frowns upon
Bennet family
because they do
not do things that
she considers
socially acceptable
- Tries to embarrass Elizabeth
- Upper class are more
prejudice towards lower
class
- Reputation
- Darcy
- Saves Elizabeths
reputation by
paying Wickham
to marry Lydia
- Seen as
arrogant
and proud
to begin
with
- Lydia
- Affects the
Bennet's
reputation by
running off with
Wickham
- Flirt
- Eliazabeth
- Doesn't care
about
reputation
- Gets overalls dirty when
visiting ill Jane
- Wickham
- Tries to pin
bad reputation
on Darcy
- Looks and charm are
uncovered to reveal true
character.
- Mrs Bennet
- ill-mannered
and
ridiculous
behaviour
gives bad
reputation
- Prejudice
- Mrs Bennet is
prejudice against
Darcy about what
happens at the ball
- Lady Catherine is prejudice
against anyone below her
- Mrs Hurst and
Miss Bingley are
prejudiced
against the
Bennets
- Money
- Mrs Bennet
wants her
daughters to
marry into
money
- Elizabeth to marry
Collins so they can
keep the house
- Family
- Affects reputation
- Lydias elopement with Wickham
- Mrs Bennet's
hysterical character
- Elizabeth
refuses
Darcy