pride and prejudice Flashcards
what are the three main themes in pride and prejudice
love , marriage and social class
what are pride and prejudice’s two strog messages
- 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 - first impressions are often wrong
a. its a mistake to judge people on shallow qualitities
what is jane austen writin inspired by
her own background
what year was pride and prejudice published
1813
what class were austens family, similar to the bennets
minor gentry
how did both the Bennets and austen’s family make their income
by renting out their land
similar to elizbath and jane in the novel, what family member was she most close to
her sister
where is thee novel set
hertfordshire, kent and derbyshire
are all the places in the novel real
towns like brighton and counties like herfordshore are but the town of meryton and estates of longbourn are made up
what were women expected to marry for
financial security
during austen’s time, what wasn’t it socally acceptable to do, for those of upper class
work
if a women didn’t get married, who would they have to rely on
familiy members
why was it a lot of pressure for a women to find a rich husband to support them
because if they didn’t get married they had to rely on family members to support them
what does pride and prejudcie explore about finicail security
the problems and dilemmas that finicial secrurity creates for the bennet sisters as they try to find happines and finiacial security
who is elizabeth bennet
- heroine
- one of the five bennet sisters
- good sense of humour
- quick to form opinion on people
who is mr darcy
- rich
- handsome
- landowner
- high opinion of himself
- falls in love with elizabeth
who is jane bennet
- eledest bennet daugter
- quiet
- good natured
who is mr bingley
- friend of darcy
- rich
- generous
- easy going
who is lydia bennet
- youngest bennet daughter
- flirty
- keen on men in uniform
who is mr wickham
- handsome
- soldier
- eye for the ladies
who is mr bennet
- elizabeth’s father
- saracatic
- means well
who is mrs bennet
- elixabeth’s mother
- silly
- bad mannered
who is charlotte lucus
- elizabeth’s friend
- practical
- not romantic
- doesn’t expect to marry for love
who is mr collins
- pompous man
- heir to bennet estate
- looks down on bennets
- worships lady catherine de bourgh
who is lady catherine de bourgh
- mr darcy’s aunt
- rich
- snobby
- wants him to marry her daughter anne
what is the main key event that happens during chapters 1-16
the bennets meet some single men
what happens during chapter 1 - 16
- 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 - there is a ball at meryton
a. bingley seems to like jane bennet
b. bingley’s friend, darcy, insults elizbeth - a regiment of soldiers is stationed in the town
- 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 - mr collins comes to stay
- mr wickham arrives in town
a. wickham tells elizabeth that dary cruelly stopped him becoming a clergy man
b. leaving him with no money
what is the main thing that happens from chapters 17-26
elizabeth and jane are dissapiunted in love
what happens in chapters 17 - 26
- bingley has a ball
a. elizabeth asks darcy about his behaviour towards wickham
b.he changes the subject - collins proposes to elizabeth
a. she refuses - the bingleys go to london
- 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 - wickham stops flirting with elizabeth
a.he pays more attentiontion to a girl who has inhertited lots of money
what is the main event that happens in chapter 27 to 45
elizabeth and darcy change their opnions
what happens from chapter 27 to 45
- elizabth visits charlotte and mr collions in knt
a. they go to lady catherine de bourgh’s for dinner - darcy visits lady catherine and sees elizabeth quite frequently
- elizabeth finds out from colonel fitzwiliam that darcy told bingley noy yo marry jane
a. she assumes it was because of her family - darcy proposes to elizabetth
a. she refuses and accuses him of treating wickham unfairly and ruining jane’s chance at happiness - 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 - the regiment of soldiers moves to brighton
a. lydia is invited to stay with one of the officers wives - elizabeth goes on holiday with gardiners
a. they visit darcy’s stately home in derbyshire and bump into darcy, who is friendly and charming
what is main event that happens in chapter 46-61
three weddingfs and a scandal
what happens in chapters 46 - 61
- Elizabeth found out that lydia had run awya with wickham and goes home atg once
- mr gardiner tells the bennets that lydia and wickham have been found
a. wickham agrees to marry lydia - elizabeth learns it was darcy, who saved her family from disgrace by bribing wickham to marry lydia
- bingley returns from london and proposes to jane
- 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 - darcy visits and proposes to elizabeh again
a. this time she accepts. everyone lives happily ever after
what period of time is pride and prejudice set in
the regency period
why are soldiers sationed across the south of iengland in the novel
britain was agt war with france, which explain the arrival of a militia regiment at meryton
did socail groups mix ? was there a big gap between the rich and the poor
diffrent socia; groups didn’t mixx much and there was a big gap between the rich and the poor
why does austen no write much about the very highest levels of society
because austen belonged to the upper middle classes, she writes about what she knows
during the regency period, what kind of society was england
a rural society, so most people lived in the country side
give two examples of characgters that own farm land in pride and prejudice
- darcy owns a “large estate in debyshire”, doesn;t run the farms on it himself but lives off profits from renting it out
- mr bennet iwns an estate, much smaller than darcy, which includes farmland
what was happening during the time pride and prejudice was written
the industrial revoilition
before the industrial revoltuon, how was societty divied
societgy was divided betweenn the very rich up[[er classes and the poor wprking class
why was there little chance for people from lower social classes to become wealthy
land and money were controlled by a few rich powerful families and passed down through inheritence
during the industrial revolution what improved so that buissnesses could make and tade their products quickly and cheaply
machines for manufacturing and transport improoved
what made it possible for wworking class people to earn more money instead of inheriting is
machines for manufacturing improved so that buissnes could make and trade their products quickly and cheaplu
why could classes mix more frequencyky
because a few became really rich
how does austen use snobbish characcters to show the effects of social class in the regency era
- lady catherine shows how wealthy people from “ancient failies” felt threatened by those with ‘new money’.
- the bingleys are rich through “trade”
- miss bingley is sensitibe about this, so she critisizes others
- austen doesn’t write about these changes directly
how do people travel in the regency period
horse and carriage or on foot
who usually rode in a carriage
gentlewomen
why is travelled limited in the regency era
because they were slow
what kind of people could only afford horse and charriage
rich peple because travel waws expensive
how does darcy view travel
- 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
how does elizabeth view travel
“an easy distance, do you call it? it is nearly fifty mile”
- wjen they talk about hcarlotte moving to kent
were carraiges or horse back more ladylike
carriages
why did english people tend to take holidays in england
because foreign travel wasn’t possible for most people
what was elizabeth’s view on holidays
- excited at the idea of visiting the lake districi with aunt and her uncle
- “object of her happiest thoughts”
what was the only oppurtuniry women had to socialise with new people and meet potiential husbands
balls and assemblies
who ignores the society rules, and is not formally introduced to someone before you could speak to someone
mr collions in chapter 18
why is it “impossible” for the bennet sisters to meet mr bingley
because mr bennet hasn’t visited him
“nobody can ever be introduced in a ball room” who says this and what does this mean
- 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
