Charlotte Lucas

Question 1

‘his pride.. does not offend me as much as pride often does’.- chpt 5, miss Lucas

Answer 1

pride, social class

dairy’s pride is inoffensive on the basis of his higher class

Question 2

‘family fortune, everything in his favour…he has a right to be proud’ - Miss Lucas, chpt ,

Answer 2

Darcy’s pride is inoffensive on the basis of his higher class

Question 3

‘bingley likes your sister undoubtedly, but he may never do more than like her, if she does not hep him on - Charlton Lucas, chpt.6

Answer 3

allusion , foreshadowing

love, marriage, gender roles,

siugegsst that loe is a two way relationship. foreshadows collins; relationships attempts

Question 4

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”

Answer 4

pragmatic

Question 5

Marriage is the “only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune”

Answer 5

pragmatic

Question 6

“Marriage is the pleasantest provision from want”

Answer 6

Charlotte Lucas - seeks security rather than happiness in a marriage

Question 7

“When she is secure of him, there will be leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses”

Answer 7

Charlotte Lucas - seeks security rather than happiness in a marriage

Question 8

“Perceived him from an upper window… and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane”

Answer 8

opportunistic

Question 9

“If a women conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him”

Answer 9

feels like women have to be cunning too fix a man

Question 10

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” - Charlotte, ch6

Answer 10

Marriage and love Mutually Exclusive - Detached view on marriage, being devoid of happiness,

Question 11

“accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment” - Charlotte, ch22

Answer 11

• Indifferent, materialistic attitude to marriage.
• Alliteration emphasises lack of interest in romance and passion, merely materialistic.
• Noun ‘establishment; describes an impersonal attitude towards her home and her lack of interest, no passion.

Question 12

“I am not romantic you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home…entering the marriage state.” - Charlotte to Elizabeth, ch22

Answer 12

• Polysyllabic disinterest, ‘state’ obligation, another phase in her life, apathetic . Love and marriage mutually exclusive

Question 13

“better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life” - Charlotte, ch6

Answer 13

• Marriage and love Mutually Exclusive, prefer to not know anything about partner going into marriage

Question 14

“…everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both” - about Charlotte & Collins, ch21

Answer 14

• Transactional attitude, love and marriage mutually exclusive. Repetition of adjective ‘satisfactory’ noun ‘satisfaction’ after Collin’s proposal reflects her disinterest and lack of love, merely financial security, lacking real passion.

Question 15

“…a woman had better show more affections than she feels” - Charlotte, ch6

Answer 15

• Not about love, about satisfying men, Role of Women is to get married/satisfy men

Question 16

“comfort of having a daughter well married;” - Lady Lucas about Charlotte, ch23

Answer 16

• Role of women to marry

Question 17

“If a women conceals her affection…she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;” - Charlotte, ch6

Answer 17

• Women’s value lie in what they do for men

Question 18

“When Mr Collins said anything of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed…Charlotte wisely did not hear” - about Charlotte, ch28

Answer 18

• Active decision on C’s part to disregard C

Question 19

(miss Lucas accepting mr collins proposal) ‘who accepted him solel from the pure and disinterest desire of an establishment’ - narrator, chpt 22, longhorn

Answer 19

societal consensus, norms

miss Lucas is thus shown to both disregard her desires for a marriage founded upon equal and reciprocal b love partners, and perpetuate marriage as a political institution which reproduces the social order of women being unable to choose their marital partners, but thrasher accept them in disregard of their own feelings on the basis of the advances of a marriage would provide

Question 20

’ Charlotte, the wife of. mr collins, was a most humiliating picture!’

• narrator, chpt 22 , elizbarth

Answer 20

socialist consensus

social advancement, marriage personal worth

this ‘humiliation’ faced by Charlotte Lucas it not unique within the scope of marriage in Britain at the time…it was mroe often that not for the benefits of the marriage that people were winded, and not their own personal desires. in doing so, it was not seldom that ridicule was faced