PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE - Social Class Flashcards
Darcy on Elizabeth’s inferiority
“Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own”
“His sense of her inferiority, of its being a
degradation”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
“Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them”
“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am?”
“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
““I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to yourmother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”
Mr Collins on de Bourgh
“Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved.“
“The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this”…”for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?”
Mr Collins Mansplaining ( free indirect discourse!)
“I consider myself more fitted by education and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like yourself;” and with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy”
ELizabeth challenging social class
“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.”
Darcy on Jane and bingley
“I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success”
Elizabeth on the bingley sisters wishes for mr bingley
“They may wish many things besides his
happiness: they may wish his increase of wealth and consequence; they may wish him to marry a girl who has all the importance of money, great connections, and pride”
