Lydia

Question 1

“Lord! how I laughed!”

Answer 1

• Exclamatory tone is frequent within Lydia’s speech.

Question 2

“High animal spirits”

Answer 2

• Description of Lydia

Question 3

“Neglect and mistake indulgence”-

Answer 3

• Suggestions for her wild behaviour.
• Also suggests the flaws of how irresponsible her parents are.

Question 4

“We talked and laughed so loud, that anybody might have heard us ten miles off!”-

Answer 4

rowdy behaviour.

Question 5

“Two of the silliest girls in the country”-

Answer 5

Mr Bennet referring to Lydia and Kitty.

Question 6

“Can’t be expected to have the sense of their father”-

Answer 6

Mrs Bennet. Ironic because she encourages them to be silly.

Question 7

“Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance” - Lydia, ch9

Answer 7

• Description

Question 8

“And we mean to treat you all…but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours” - Lydia, ch39

Answer 8

• Impertinence, not really treating if someone else is paying

Question 9

“I have bought this bonnet, I do not think it very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not.” - Lydia, ch39

Answer 9

• Her extravagant buying habits - for no reason at all

Question 10

“Have you seen any pleasant men? Have you had any good flirting?” - Lydia, ch39

Answer 10

• Her head is only filled with men, yet also reminds us of women’s duty to marry

Question 11

“Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!” - Lydia, ch39

Answer 11

• Impropriety, lack of manners, snubbing Jane

Question 12

“Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!” - Lydia, ch39

Answer 12

• Impropriety, lack of manners, snubbing Jane

Question 13

“the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia’s character” - Lydia, ch41

Answer 13

• Another description of Lydia and her impulsive nature

Question 14

“when I write to them and sign my name ‘Lydia Wickham.’ What a good joke it will be!” - Lydia, ch47

Answer 14

• Doesn’t understand severity of the impacts to reputation of her scandalous elopement

Question 15

“Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.” - Lydia, ch51

Answer 15

• Not impacted by what she did

Question 16

“I ought not to have said a word about it. I promised them so faithfully!” - Lydia, ch51

Answer 16

• Key as by her telling, did E find out D’s role in this, helps plot. Also irony of ‘faithfully’

Question 17

“she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody” - Mr Bennet about Lydia, ch41

Answer 17

• Irony that poor is positive

Question 18

“She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to - she is lost for ever.” - Elizabeth about Lydia, ch46

Answer 18

• With lack of assets, L is worthless so E says W would never marry her

Question 19

“Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.” - Lydia, ch1

Answer 19

• Marriage elevates family standing and importance

Question 20

“I am sure my sisters must all envy me. I only hope they may have half my good luck.” - Lydia, ch1

Answer 20

• Ridiculous, she calls it luck yet she’s disgraced her whole family

Question 21

“Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia’s character.” - Elizabeth to Mr Bennet

Answer 21

• Individual’s actions impact reputation of family as a whole, so Lydia ridicules family by her flirting

Question 22

“Their conduct has been such…as neither you, nor I, nor anybody can ever forget. It is useless to talk about it.” - Elizabeth, ch49

Answer 22

• Permanent damage Lydia’s conduct has on their reputation