Mr And Mrs Elton As Comic Villains: Quotations

Question 1

What three quotes exemplify they being rude to Harriet due to her class?

Answer 1

• “sneering and negligent”
• “the enmity which they dared not show in open disrespect to her”
• “my dancing days are over”

Question 2

What presents Mrs Elton as overly controlling of Jane Fairfax?

Answer 2

• “She shall not do such a thing again,”

Question 3

What 4 quotes presents Mrs Elton as materialistic and her marriage as shallow?

Answer 3

• “a bride in a pew”
• “though devotion might be interrupted”
• “We really seem quite the fashion”
• “Maple Grove”

Question 4

What 3 quotes present the couple as being excluded from the happy ending?

Answer 4

• “Mr Elton was called on”
• “extremely shabby”
• “very inferior to her own”

Question 5

What does Emma realise that makes Mr Elton appear materialistic?

Answer 5

• “If Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss somebody else with twenty or with ten”