Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pride And Prejudice Themes
- Pride And Prejudice
- Pride: having to high
and opinion of ones
worth or importance
- Darcy: Proud of
social standing;
Has the most
pride: Quiet nature
makes him seem
aragant
- Lizzy: Not naturally proud; Darcy hurts her
pride at the first ball= more proud of
herself; assumptions of people
- Lady Catherine and Caroline Bingley:
proud of class
- Mr Collins: changes
on company- lower
class= high pride,
upper= humble
- Jane: little pride
- Prejudice: making a
judgement on others
that is not based on
fact or experiance
- Darcy: towards Bennets
- Lizzy: towards Darcy for offending her
- Mrs Bennet: towards Darcy for being rude
about her family. This changes when he
proposes to Lizzy.
- Lady Catherine: lower class
- Bingley Sisters: Lizzy as Miss
B wants to marry him and he
likes Lizzy. Jane as they feel
she is not good enough for their
brother.
- Love
- Lizzy and Jane will only marry for love
- Uncommon view at the time
- Social class and reputation are
more important to begin with
- Bingley goes to London and
Darcy tries to deny feelings for
Lizzy
- Love is a luxuary
- Charlotte and Mr Collins as they need to marry
- Mrs Bennet trying to marry Lizzy to Mr Collins in
order to keep their home
- Love at first sight
- Jane and Bingley
- Marriage
- Arranged marriage
- Marry for money
- Collins marries
Charlotte as an
expectation
- Mrs Bennet tries to get all
her daughters married of
throughout the whole novel
- Couples with Love
- Reputation
- Darcy
- Reputation of: arrogant,
disagreeable and proud
- Saves Lydias'
reputation. Pays for her
marriage
- Marrying Lizzy wouldn't ruin
social repuration
- Lizzy
- Not concerned about her reputation
- Cares more about Jane's health than her reputation
- Lydia
- If Wickham didn't marry her, she
would have a bad reputation.
- Compremises whole family
- Outrageous flirt
- Wickham
- Uses looks and charm
to get good reputation
- True nature being revealed ruins this
- Concerned as to how he might
gain from others reputations
- Reputation Prejudice Pride Losing Reputation
- Social Class and Women
- Social Class
- Darcy appears differently to different
classes: higher= amiable and caring
lower= proud and arrogant
- Prejudice towards lower classes
- Miss Bingley, Mrs Hurst, Mr Collins and Lady Catherine
- Lizzy goes against society at the time
- Women
- Humour at behaviour
- Mrs Bennet: silly, hysterical, no
moral descrimination
- Lydia represents vanity,
ignorance and being idel
- Lizzy
- Prefers
conversational
fencing as
opposed to
gossip and small
talk
- Characteristics are not the
norm for women of the time
- Whit, intelligence and independace
- Sets her apart form everyone
- Lizzy goes against society for the time