Lady Catherine De Bourgh

Question 1

“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.”

Question 2

“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?”

Question 3

“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.

Question 4

“I am not to be trifled with”

Answer 4

Lady Catherine - doesn’t expect to be challenged

Question 5

“Do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends… you will be censured slighted and despised by everyone connected to him”

Answer 5

doesn’t like to be challenged

Question 6

“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am?”

Answer 6

Lady Catherine - self-important

Question 7

Calls Elizabeth “a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance to the world”

Answer 7

Lady Catherine - self-important

Question 8

“Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything”

Answer 8

Lady Catherine - impertinent

Question 9

Elizabeth guesses that she is the first person who has ever “dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence”

Answer 9

Lady Catherine - impertinent

Question 10

Proud of her “family, connections [and] fortune”

Answer 10

Lady Catherine - proud

Question 11

“My character has ever been celebrated for its sincerity and frankness”

Answer 11

Lady Catherine - proud

Question 12

“I will not be interrupted”

Answer 12

Lady Catherine - imperious

Question 13

“Upon my word,’ said her ladyship, ‘you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person’” - LCDB, ch29

Answer 13

• E defies typical women, says what she thinks

Question 14

“Mr Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry.” - LCBD, ch19

Answer 14

• Men’s duty to marry, also that C proposes out of a sense of duty not love

Question 15

“Why did you not all learn? You ought all to have learned.” - LCDB, ch29

Answer 15

• Expectation to be accomplished, role of women

Question 16

“whether any of them were likely to be married, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept” - LCDB asking Elizabeth, ch29

Answer 16

• Importance of marriage, wealth and education

Question 17

“she was a most active magistrate in her own parish” - LCDB, ch20

Answer 17

• Strange her power, unusual for a woman]

Question 18

“‘Upon my word,’ said her ladyship, ‘you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person’” - LCDB, ch29

Answer 18

• Again E subverts gender stereotypes by speaking her mind

Question 19

“enquired into Charlotte’s domestic concerns…gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all” - LCDB, ch29

Answer 19

• Role of women, to be in charge of domestic duties

Question 20

“No governess! How was that possible?” - LCDB, ch29

Answer 20

• Education is symbolic of class

Question 21

“…to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 21

• Class is a barrier to marriage

Question 22

“Who was your mother? Who are your uncle and aunts?” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 22

• Sequence of rhetorical questions, importance of status, authoritative manner, linear ideas, importance of connections,

Question 23

“Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father.” - LCDB to Elizabeth, ch37

Answer 23

• Incompetency of female as can’t be entailed to

Question 24

“Who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts?” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 24

• Sequence of rhetorical questions, importance of status, authoritative manner, linear ideas, importance of connections,.

Question 25

“While in their cradles we planned the union” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 25

• ‘Planned’ shows how meticulously gentry have crafted lives of their children in order to retain reputation, importance of reputation and class

Question 26

“Heaven and Earth! -…Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?” - LCDB, ch58

Answer 26

• 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

Question 27

“Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?” - LCDB, ch57

Answer 27

• Disgrace of bad connection

Question 28

“That lady I suppose is your mother…and that I suppose is one of your sisters” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 28

• Comedy of manners, expected to have manners yet objectifies them

Question 29

“Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?” - LCDB, ch56

Answer 29

• Comedy of Manners: Se lacks them herself, yet trying to assert authority and lecturing