Pride and Prejudice Flashcards
the marriage plot: … plot, any novel that ends with …
historically derives from notion of ….
romance novel; marriage; companionate marriage
novel is new form in 18th century:
associated with … world, … form
… form
narrative becomes … and …–> greater …
changes in …, …, more powerful … emerging at this time (people have the means to …)
biggest audience for novels is …
modern; modern; middle class; available; cheap; audience; social order; industrial revolution; middle class; purchase books; women
people’s notions of … and of the … is changing at this time
themselves; social order
women had to be married to havw
financial independence
stories often try to resolve certain problems/questions:
problem here is ..
one of the questions is what an … looks like
problems of … and … here as well: Bennets are at lower end of the … (kind of like upper middle class), Darcy is at the top of the …
marriage; ideal marriage; wealth; class; gentry; gentry
5 Bennet sisters, and no sons: Elizabeth can’t … her father’s land, so there is much pressure on her to get married
inherit
in these classes, … is of extreme importance:
women blamed for family’s … and … –> ways of … the …
social decorum; reputation; behavior; controlling; bride
poor houses: exploitation of … in order for people to … to …
labor; eat; survive
there were … for those who couldn’t pay debts
debtor’s prisons
middle class women couldn’t … , unless they did so as … which was considered the ultimate …
work; servants; shame
Jane Austen is writing in a narrow world of …, where women are desperate to …
middle class (gentry) respectability; married
women could also become a …–one of the only respectable options for a woman of Eliza’s class if they didn’t get married, besides living with a brother
governess
this is the beginning of the professional … –people can make money off of their books
authorship
opening sentence is … –> 2nd sentence … it completely, it’s not shared among the single man entering the neighborhood
ironic; undermines
“But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them” tension between … and …
very likely; may
Austen taking the voice of … and defining Mrs. Bennet’s character
omniscient narrator
Mrs. Bennet is volatile, ignorant, and not very insightful. setup of this paragraph makes it seem as if Mr. bennet is …
relates what happens when women aren’t allowed to be ..
what is Mr. Bennet’s culpability? He’s left his daughters to become …
belittling women; educated; like their mother
opening sentence portrays a mockery of … that is simultaneously being declared. Truth is set up by women in neighborhood and fathers that want their daughters married. Marriage is declared to be a fundamentally …
Rich man is not allowed to be …, they can’t imagine a …
social order; economic arrangement; single; single rich man
Mrs. Bennet is very interested in trappings of Bingley’s
ealth
Mrs. Bennet doesn’t understand … –she’s …
her husband at all; foolish
Bennet is not the best father–retreats into his … to hide from his wife, and therefore …
study; abandons his daughters
very quickly establishes what marriage can be like when you have two … who are married. there is no … from this marriage –> more tragic for …, because he’s the more … one
incompatible people; escape; Mr. Bennet; intelligent
Novel takes attitude of … towards social order in which women have to get married–> slightly ….
ironic detachment; critical
slightly failed social structure that novel is … and working through
satirizing
social class order: ... > ... (...) > ... > .../... gentry gaining more .., while aristocracy is falling
aristocracy; gentry; bourgeoisie; tradesmen; lower class; poor; political power
since marriage is the only pathway to avoid a poor house, it’s understable that people were desperate for it. Mrs. Bennet is afflicted because she hasn’t married an …, and he also has no … for her
extremely rich man; respect
Darcy not even kind enough to dance with someone to make them … in a social situation. Bingley, on the other hand, is kind. Darcy is incredibly …
feel better; arrogant
Jane and Elizabeth somehow escaped
foolishness
different versions of … or … relationships exhibited through …
married; imminently married; subplots
Darcy is an arrogant character, prideful of his … and …
wealth; standing
marriage plot resolves the issue of pride and prejudice, as the novel ends in a … However, is it a real resolution?
happy ending
everyone knows everyone, games of … being played out
small world that you can be … from very easily –> high stakes, if you don’t marry you can lose all your … by ending up in the ..
social positions; ejected; status; poor house
Elizabeth penetrates Darcy’s arrogance because of her own … and …
intelligence; boldness
… and maintaining it is dependent on marriage
social position
… is all that a woman has in this situation, which is why … is incredibly significant in this context
people also … and … because of what is at stake
leads to a society based on …, …, where stakes of … are incredibly high
reputation; gossip; lie; hide information; rumor; innuendo; tainted reputation
bad reputation for a woman: the idea that she might be a …, or that she may not be a …
flirt; virgin
gossip becomes a part of the drama, ratcheting up the …, but it also acts as a … in this society
tension; weapon
most of the people in Jane Austen’s world are not …
nice
Charlotte’s views on marriage: she focuses primarily on the … aspect of it. Again repeating notion that marriage is an … decision
financial; economic
… of the aristocracy did not have many opportunities available
younger sons
the price for trying to subvert the ideals essential to that social structure resulted in …: women …, and life becomes incredibly difficult without …
ejection from one’s social group; shamed; family’s support
in this society everything is …, little actions have highs takes
exacerbated
Collins wants to please people who are his … He also thinks that he’s doing Elizabeth and women a … by marrying them. Setting up marriage as a … by saying that he wants to set up matrimony as an example –> to make a certain kind of social structure absolutely normative
social superiors; favor; norm
Unmarried woman becomes a … –> never considered an …, these women are …
social threat; adult; dependent
Collins is a … Does anything to please … He ingratiates himself by sneaking into her life and then drops her name everywhere, integrating it into every conversation he has
social climber; Lady Catherine
Jane Austen uses Collins’s own words to mock … and …. through the use of the term …
Catherine is giving …, which is obnoxious. She is a .., … woman who is a bit of a …
Collins; Lady Catherine; condescension; unasked for advice; supercilious; aristocratic; bully
Collins is so … that he doesn’t know what he’s saying
clueless
Lady Catherine is a … (her husband is …)
dowager; dead
Catherine is an overpowering woman who
tells people what to do
Collins’s first reason that as a clergyman, he must marry, comes from …
He needs a wife because he needs a … (“able to make a small income go a good way”) –> division of …, … work for women
Lady Catherine; housekeeper; labor; endless
according to social arrangements of the time, it was kind of as if you were marrying the … as well
entire family
Austen showed a … world where everyone’s … –> can’t really get away from it
Women, particularly, are trapped in it because they don’t do anything else (i.e. work)
closed; trapped
… is what constitutes the social world, importance of which is shown through how Collins … —> he adopts Lady Catherine’s ideas as …
talk; speaks; his own
Charlotte talks about a man and woman in a relationship interpreting each other–> if a woman expresses her feelings, she’s considered
forward
novel is … about marriage –> most people are in a … arrangement, exposed as structure of … of … and …
damning; trapped; inequity; power; affection
novel is not … or … about marriage, presents it as a necessary … –> not a .. institution, no one is seeking it for its own sake in this novel, everyone in the novel also knows what it’s about
romantic; happy; evil; happy;
According to first proposal, Darcy did not want to … Elizabeth, trying to .. his feelings.
“She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement”
love; repress
Austen writes “He was not more eloquent..”, the framing of which makes it sound
deadpan
Darcy tells Elizabeth that he would be … by marrying her –> puts her in a position of … and him in a position of constantly … her
family obstacles too, saying that his rational self should … for her
degraded; gratitude; resenting; overcome his feelings
Darcy believes that Elizabeth will accept him merely for his
social standing
“She could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection” –> she felt … in spite of herself, because he is a rich and handsome man. However, she becomes increasingly … as he continues speaking
complimented; angry
elizabeth would have to have been extremely … to accept Darcy’s suit
pathetic
Eliza tells Darcy that if she could feel gratitude, she’d … But she doesn’t. She says that, since loving her is such a terrible thing, he should …
harshness of her rejection is directly correlated to the .. of his proposal, which is entirely shaped by his sense of … and …
thank him; get over her quickly; obnoxious nature; pride; arrogance
At Eliza’s response, Darcy felt … and was …, even though he insulted her. The relationship would have been a disaster, because in the moment that he presents his love for her, he simultaneously presents profound … Darcy has no self-consciousness of how … he was in proposing
resentment; surprised;
part of the dialogue between liz and darcy is that eliza … back at him
throws his language
Elizabeth says that even if she cared for Darcy she wouldn’t marry him bc he ruined
her sister’s happiness
“he even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity” Darcy pretending to be …, he’s being sarcastic
surprised
Elizabeth’s prejudice against Darcy, and toward Wickham, makes it easier for them to be … at the end–> she’s wrong on …, but she’s right on …
reconciled; Wickham; his arrogance
Darcy has a … struggle, that should have nothing to do with Elizabeth
sexual
Pride and Prejudice is an … title, because Elizabeth’s prejudice is not as … as Darcy’s pride, because she was wrong on Wickham, but his … for her was the primary issue. Plus, Darcy … at the end, so she wasn’t really wrong either
unbalanced; huge;; contempt; changed
Gradual overcoming of certain … in their relationship. Darcy becomes somewhat … towards the end
obstacles; humbler
Marriage becomes a …, and love becomes a way by which men can be … –> woman … the man, woman’s duty to …
narrative; redeemed; redeem; save the man from himself
idea is that woman can … and it is her duty to make him .. (cultural expectation, cultural narrative here)
Bad way to enter a relationship: “I’m gonna change him” derives from this attitude
Woman becomes a … in the man’s …, becomes …
better; prop; moral drama; secondary
idea is that a ‘good’ woman is supposed to have .., … them, and … the man at the same time
shows men as …, that women have to save
part of … structure, flip of creation story
kids; raise; save; weak moral beings; companionate
woman is not .., but she is incredibly … –> notion that unequal person is still responsible of one’s … (same idea as presented by the abusive ‘you made me do it,’ reflected in …structures too–> ascription of … to person who was actually …)
equal; powerful; goodness; racial; criminality; harmed
“you made me”: deferral of your actual …, presents a … in the abuser
as power is being asserted, it’s being … and … onto the victim –> powerful get to exercise their power in … ways, while also … the responsibility upon the victim
responsibility; weakness; disowned; displaced; violent; displacing
the erasure of equality in the name of … through … marriage–> … of a woman
equality; companionate; burdens
marriage plot takes over … in a particular way
derives from Christian, Protestant, Anglican vies, of which companionate marriage is a part
acquires a … of its own which comes with a certain … structure for women, in which their morality should overcome the man’s. Women are … in terms of morality. they should be … than the man –> it’s not a narrative of equality
modern wife; life; moral; disproportionately burdened; better
novel is a form that comes with its own … and … Form that sometimes, because of its … and …, in its need to resolve conflict, it can … its …
As it resolves certain issues, it can give illusions that some things can’t be …, becomes some things are above the …
morality; ethics; structure; resolution; paper over; differences; resolved; plot
