Jane Austen

What this unit covers

Most of the page is about Pride and Prejudice, with further resources on Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. The formats are mixed: notes, mind maps, a flowchart, slide sets, flashcard decks and quizzes, all made by GoConqr users.

Where to start

Begin with the notes. The Pride and Prejudice Plot Summary walks through the book in chapter groups, from Chapters 1-4 to Chapters 50-61. The Pride and Prejudice Character Analysis then covers Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Collins, Charlotte Lucas, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley and George Wickham.

1. Read the plot summary alongside your copy of the novel.
2. Move to the character analysis.
3. Open the flowchart Relationships in Pride and Prejudice to see how the families and suitors connect.

Mind maps for themes and quotes

The mind maps are the largest group here. Themes in Pride and Prejudice branches into pride, prejudice, marriage, money, class, love, good breeding and social expectations, and opens with the famous first-chapter line. Pride and Prejudice: Reputation & Society looks at how Darcy is first seen in the ballroom. The MR DARCY and MR BINGLEY maps collect key quotes for each man.

Using quizzes and maps together

Read a map, then take a quiz without looking. The Pride and Prejudice Quiz asks things like who Mr. Collins proposed to first and where the Bennets live, and includes fill-in-the-blank quotations. Note the questions you miss, go back to the matching map, then test yourself again. Flashcard decks such as Essay Qoutes and Pride and Prejudice quote card help you memorise quotations for essays.

Beyond Pride and Prejudice

For other novels, try the Emma: Structure of the Novel map, which follows a year in Highbury village, or the Northanger Abbey characters map and the Mansfield Park critic's quotes deck. This unit sits in the Nineteenth-Century Prose strand of Literature.

Choose one novel, open a map and see what you already know.