Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FORM AND STRUCTURE:
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
- Free indirect discourse
- When the characters'
thoughts and feelings are
mentioned without
speech or quotation
marks (passive )
- Casts judgement on the characters
- As the omniscient narrator focuses on
Elizabeth's side of story, the judgement
that is shown through the free indirect
discourse, is usually her own opinion.
- This is one of Austen's writing techniques and the
technique creates some sort of irony as she is often seen
to mock the cliches of courtship and marriage in her
society.
- Omniscient Narrator
- Focuses on Elizabeth's story
- Implies that Lizzie is the protagonist
- Focuses on her emotions in chapter 26.
- Unreliable narrative
- Allows the audience to have an opinion
- The anonymous narrator
creates an opinion and it
is i n3rd person.
- Gives opinion
- Casts a judgement on
the characters
- Letters
- LENGTH: Long= More intellectual
(Lizzie) Short= Less educated (Lydia)
- Mr. Collins only talks about himself, almost
like advertising/selling himself. Mr Darcy is
trying to get to know Elizabeth more and he is
trying to communicate to her more which
shows a true interest in getting to know the
other.
- TALK ABOUT THIS IN E+D ROMANTIC LOVE AND
HOW MISERABLE CHARLOTTE COULD BE AS
COLLINS ONLY WANTS TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK
GOOD AND TO IMPRESS CATHERINE DE BOURGH
- ' I feel it my duty to promote and
establish the blessing of peace in all
families ' Uses a lot of personal
prounouns about himself.
- He is treating the marriage like a contract and
shows no signs of emotions or feeling. Instead, he
only talks about how mis marraige would benefit
the people in his community. This suggests that his
marriage is only to raise his popularity/status
among the community.
- Mr Collins main role in the story is to mock the cliches and sterotypes in
society. He is seen as an egomaniac and selfish, so his portrayal of a
good marriage for him is seen in a negative light by the readership of
the novel. This type of mockery from Austen is often repeated
throughout the book and it links with the starting sentence of the story.
- Helps to reveal the personality of a character.
- The letters are a fast way to
summarise of what events happened
that took place when another major
happening went on in the novel. The
letters are used so that the reader is
not overloaded with too much
information.
- Helps to develop to plot faster in order to keep the reader interested.
- Lets the readers know
information that is not
included in the dialogue.
- Increase in the readers'
understanding of the plot/
storyline
- Men did not often send personal letters as letters were
mainly used as a form of communication in Regency England.
Mr Darcy's use of letters allows the reader have an insight on
his thoughts and feelings. It also highlights how Darcy is
different to the other men's approaches to courtship and
marriage. As Elizabeth is the protagonist in the novel, and Mr
Darcy is her lover. he is seen in a positive light by the reader
as he seen to help Elizabeth and they develop a close
relationship with each other (romantic love). The use of letters
highlights to the audience that Austen believes more into
romantic love and the actions that a man does to show his
love for the woman.
- Mr Darcy is quite private and sending letters allows him and Lizzie
to 'talk' in private without the others knowing. Furthermore, it
would be easier for them to communicate in private more easily
through letters as men and female were not allowed to be alone
togther.
- THE LETTER JUXTAPOSES MR DARCY AND MR COLLINS AS
THE READER AND IT SHOWS THEM AS COMPLETE
OPPOSITES. MR DARCY WANTS TO COMMUNICATE IN
ORDER TO DEVELOP HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LIZZIE,
WHEREAS MR COLLINS WRITES LETTERS FOR HIS OWN
BENEFIT.
- Darcy and Elizabeth's
equal length in dialogue
- LITERARY TERMS TO USE
- Linguistically
- This insinuates that
- This demonstrates
- Contains many layers of metaphorical and literal layers of meaning.
- PARABOLIC TRAJECTORY. Juliet uses a
parabolic trajectory because in the beginning
of the play, she starts off as a naive girl who
is not in any type of danger as she is
financially stable without any sort of threat
of depth. However, later on, she falls in love
with Romeo and begins to have suicidal
thoughts, which may have been caused from
Romeo's influence, but later on, she is safe
again, in a way as the play ends in a
somewhat happy manner because the two
opposing families reuinite, like she wanted.