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pride and prejudice Flashcards

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what are the three main themes in pride and prejudice

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love , marriage and social class

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what are pride and prejudice’s two strog messages

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  1. people should marry for love, not money or social status
    a. characters who marry the people they love are much happier than those who marry for other reasons
  2. first impressions are often wrong
    a. its a mistake to judge people on shallow qualitities
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what is jane austen writin inspired by

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her own background

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what year was pride and prejudice published

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1813

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what class were austens family, similar to the bennets

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minor gentry

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how did both the Bennets and austen’s family make their income

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by renting out their land

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similar to elizbath and jane in the novel, what family member was she most close to

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her sister

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where is thee novel set

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hertfordshire, kent and derbyshire

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are all the places in the novel real

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towns like brighton and counties like herfordshore are but the town of meryton and estates of longbourn are made up

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what were women expected to marry for

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financial security

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during austen’s time, what wasn’t it socally acceptable to do, for those of upper class

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work

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if a women didn’t get married, who would they have to rely on

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familiy members

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why was it a lot of pressure for a women to find a rich husband to support them

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because if they didn’t get married they had to rely on family members to support them

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what does pride and prejudcie explore about finicail security

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the problems and dilemmas that finicial secrurity creates for the bennet sisters as they try to find happines and finiacial security

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who is elizabeth bennet

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  • heroine
  • one of the five bennet sisters
  • good sense of humour
  • quick to form opinion on people
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who is mr darcy

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  • rich
  • handsome
  • landowner
  • high opinion of himself
  • falls in love with elizabeth
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who is jane bennet

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  • eledest bennet daugter
  • quiet
  • good natured
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who is mr bingley

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  • friend of darcy
  • rich
  • generous
  • easy going
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who is lydia bennet

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  • youngest bennet daughter
  • flirty
  • keen on men in uniform
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who is mr wickham

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  • handsome
  • soldier
  • eye for the ladies
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who is mr bennet

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  • elizabeth’s father
  • saracatic
  • means well
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who is mrs bennet

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  • elixabeth’s mother
  • silly
  • bad mannered
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who is charlotte lucus

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  • elizabeth’s friend
  • practical
  • not romantic
  • doesn’t expect to marry for love
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who is mr collins

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  • pompous man
  • heir to bennet estate
  • looks down on bennets
  • worships lady catherine de bourgh
25
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who is lady catherine de bourgh

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  • mr darcy’s aunt
  • rich
  • snobby
  • wants him to marry her daughter anne
26
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what is the main key event that happens during chapters 1-16

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the bennets meet some single men

27
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what happens during chapter 1 - 16

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  1. a young rich single man, called mr bingley, rents a house near the bennets
    a. mrs bennet hopes he will marry one of her five daughters
  2. there is a ball at meryton
    a. bingley seems to like jane bennet
    b. bingley’s friend, darcy, insults elizbeth
  3. a regiment of soldiers is stationed in the town
  4. janes become ill and bingley’s house
    a. jane stays until she is better
    b. elizabbeth goes to look after her
    5, dary is attracted to elizabeth
    a. however he doesn’t like her family and tries to ignore her
  5. mr collins comes to stay
  6. mr wickham arrives in town
    a. wickham tells elizabeth that dary cruelly stopped him becoming a clergy man
    b. leaving him with no money
28
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what is the main thing that happens from chapters 17-26

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elizabeth and jane are dissapiunted in love

29
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what happens in chapters 17 - 26

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  1. bingley has a ball
    a. elizabeth asks darcy about his behaviour towards wickham
    b.he changes the subject
  2. collins proposes to elizabeth
    a. she refuses
  3. the bingleys go to london
  4. mr collions proposes to charlotte lucus
    a. she accepts
    5.miss bingley writes to jane
    a. in the letter, miss bingley reveals that she expects mr bingley to marry darcy’s sister
    b. she tells jane that they are not coming back to meryton
    6.jane goes to london with her aunt and her uncle
    a.she vists miss bingley,who treats jane treats badly
  5. wickham stops flirting with elizabeth
    a.he pays more attentiontion to a girl who has inhertited lots of money
30
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what is the main event that happens in chapter 27 to 45

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elizabeth and darcy change their opnions

31
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what happens from chapter 27 to 45

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  1. elizabth visits charlotte and mr collions in knt
    a. they go to lady catherine de bourgh’s for dinner
  2. darcy visits lady catherine and sees elizabeth quite frequently
  3. elizabeth finds out from colonel fitzwiliam that darcy told bingley noy yo marry jane
    a. she assumes it was because of her family
  4. darcy proposes to elizabetth
    a. she refuses and accuses him of treating wickham unfairly and ruining jane’s chance at happiness
  5. darcy writes elizabeth a letter explaining that he didn’t think jane loved bingley
    a. he also tells her that wickham tried to elope with darcy’s 15 year old sister to get her foortune
  6. the regiment of soldiers moves to brighton
    a. lydia is invited to stay with one of the officers wives
  7. elizabeth goes on holiday with gardiners
    a. they visit darcy’s stately home in derbyshire and bump into darcy, who is friendly and charming
32
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what is main event that happens in chapter 46-61

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three weddingfs and a scandal

33
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what happens in chapters 46 - 61

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  1. Elizabeth found out that lydia had run awya with wickham and goes home atg once
  2. mr gardiner tells the bennets that lydia and wickham have been found
    a. wickham agrees to marry lydia
  3. elizabeth learns it was darcy, who saved her family from disgrace by bribing wickham to marry lydia
  4. bingley returns from london and proposes to jane
  5. lady catherine visits elizabeth becayse she’s heard that elizabeth and dary are engaged
    a. she tells elizabeth that she must promise not marry him but elizbaeth refuses
  6. darcy visits and proposes to elizabeh again
    a. this time she accepts. everyone lives happily ever after
34
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what period of time is pride and prejudice set in

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the regency period

35
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why are soldiers sationed across the south of iengland in the novel

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britain was agt war with france, which explain the arrival of a militia regiment at meryton

36
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did socail groups mix ? was there a big gap between the rich and the poor

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diffrent socia; groups didn’t mixx much and there was a big gap between the rich and the poor

37
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why does austen no write much about the very highest levels of society

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because austen belonged to the upper middle classes, she writes about what she knows

38
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during the regency period, what kind of society was england

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a rural society, so most people lived in the country side

39
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give two examples of characgters that own farm land in pride and prejudice

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  1. darcy owns a “large estate in debyshire”, doesn;t run the farms on it himself but lives off profits from renting it out
  2. mr bennet iwns an estate, much smaller than darcy, which includes farmland
40
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what was happening during the time pride and prejudice was written

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the industrial revoilition

41
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before the industrial revoltuon, how was societty divied

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societgy was divided betweenn the very rich up[[er classes and the poor wprking class

42
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why was there little chance for people from lower social classes to become wealthy

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land and money were controlled by a few rich powerful families and passed down through inheritence

43
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during the industrial revolution what improved so that buissnesses could make and tade their products quickly and cheaply

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machines for manufacturing and transport improoved

44
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what made it possible for wworking class people to earn more money instead of inheriting is

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machines for manufacturing improved so that buissnes could make and trade their products quickly and cheaplu

45
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why could classes mix more frequencyky

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because a few became really rich

46
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how does austen use snobbish characcters to show the effects of social class in the regency era

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  1. lady catherine shows how wealthy people from “ancient failies” felt threatened by those with ‘new money’.
  2. the bingleys are rich through “trade”
  3. miss bingley is sensitibe about this, so she critisizes others
  4. austen doesn’t write about these changes directly
47
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how do people travel in the regency period

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horse and carriage or on foot

48
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who usually rode in a carriage

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gentlewomen

49
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why is travelled limited in the regency era

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because they were slow

50
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what kind of people could only afford horse and charriage

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rich peple because travel waws expensive

51
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how does darcy view travel

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  • doesnt think about cost of journey
  • thinks about the time it would take
  • his ability to travel is less restricted because he’s rich and a man
    “ and what is fifty miles of good road ? littlee more than half a day’s journey. yes, i call it a very easy distance”
  • when they talk about charlotte moving to kent
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how does elizabeth view travel

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“an easy distance, do you call it? it is nearly fifty mile”
- wjen they talk about hcarlotte moving to kent

53
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were carraiges or horse back more ladylike

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carriages

54
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why did english people tend to take holidays in england

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because foreign travel wasn’t possible for most people

55
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what was elizabeth’s view on holidays

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  • excited at the idea of visiting the lake districi with aunt and her uncle
  • “object of her happiest thoughts”
56
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what was the only oppurtuniry women had to socialise with new people and meet potiential husbands

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balls and assemblies

57
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who ignores the society rules, and is not formally introduced to someone before you could speak to someone

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mr collions in chapter 18

58
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why is it “impossible” for the bennet sisters to meet mr bingley

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because mr bennet hasn’t visited him

59
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“nobody can ever be introduced in a ball room” who says this and what does this mean

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  • eliizabeth
  • being ironic
  • balls were a very common way of meeting new poeple in the regency period
  • but you had to do it right
  • social rules were strict and complicated then

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