Lady Catherine De Bourgh Flashcards
“Miss Bennet,” replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, “you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with. But however insincere you may choose to be, you shall not find me so. My character has ever been celebrated for its sincerity and frankness, and in a cause of such moment as this, I shall certainly not depart from it.”
“You have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew! Unfeeling, selfish girl! Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?[…] You are then resolved to have him?”
“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your
mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
“I am not to be trifled with”
Lady Catherine - doesn’t expect to be challenged
“Do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends… you will be censured slighted and despised by everyone connected to him”
doesn’t like to be challenged
“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am?”
Lady Catherine - self-important
Calls Elizabeth “a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance to the world”
Lady Catherine - self-important
“Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything”
Lady Catherine - impertinent
Elizabeth guesses that she is the first person who has ever “dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence”
Lady Catherine - impertinent
Proud of her “family, connections [and] fortune”
Lady Catherine - proud
“My character has ever been celebrated for its sincerity and frankness”
Lady Catherine - proud
“I will not be interrupted”
Lady Catherine - imperious
“Upon my word,’ said her ladyship, ‘you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person’” - LCDB, ch29
- E defies typical women, says what she thinks
“Mr Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry.” - LCBD, ch19
- Men’s duty to marry, also that C proposes out of a sense of duty not love
“Why did you not all learn? You ought all to have learned.” - LCDB, ch29
- Expectation to be accomplished, role of women
“whether any of them were likely to be married, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept” - LCDB asking Elizabeth, ch29
- Importance of marriage, wealth and education
“she was a most active magistrate in her own parish” - LCDB, ch20
- Strange her power, unusual for a woman]
“‘Upon my word,’ said her ladyship, ‘you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person’” - LCDB, ch29
- Again E subverts gender stereotypes by speaking her mind
“enquired into Charlotte’s domestic concerns…gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all” - LCDB, ch29
- Role of women, to be in charge of domestic duties
“No governess! How was that possible?” - LCDB, ch29
- Education is symbolic of class
“…to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!” - LCDB, ch56
- Class is a barrier to marriage
“Who was your mother? Who are your uncle and aunts?” - LCDB, ch56
- Sequence of rhetorical questions, importance of status, authoritative manner, linear ideas, importance of connections,
“Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father.” - LCDB to Elizabeth, ch37
- Incompetency of female as can’t be entailed to
“Who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts?” - LCDB, ch56
- Sequence of rhetorical questions, importance of status, authoritative manner, linear ideas, importance of connections,.
“While in their cradles we planned the union” - LCDB, ch56
- ‘Planned’ shows how meticulously gentry have crafted lives of their children in order to retain reputation, importance of reputation and class
“Heaven and Earth! -…Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?” - LCDB, ch58
- Exclamation ‘Heaven and Earth’ conveys LCB’s utter shock, highlights whole universe and society would frown upon it, shows marrying out of social class is appalling
“Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?” - LCDB, ch57
- Disgrace of bad connection
“That lady I suppose is your mother…and that I suppose is one of your sisters” - LCDB, ch56
- Comedy of manners, expected to have manners yet objectifies them
“Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?” - LCDB, ch56
- Comedy of Manners: Se lacks them herself, yet trying to assert authority and lecturing
