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Pride And Prejudice Themes
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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
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