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Pride and Prejudice MOCKS
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- 1Mr Bennet can be seen as a rather callous father, to his daughters."They are all silly and ignorant, like other girls; but Lizzie has something more of quickness than her sisters."
"Mr Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way!" - 2The Gardiners are a treasured member of the Bennet family."Mrs Gardiner [...] was [...] a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces."
"With the Gardiners they were always on the most intimate terms. Who [...] had been the means of uniting them." - 3Elizabeth and Jane have a loving sisterly bond."You have liked many a stupider person."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"Compliments always take you by surprise and me never." - 4Elizabeth's three younger sisters - Mary, Kitty and Lydia - are seen as foolish and ridiculous."Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman."
"They were ignorant, idle and vain."
"weak-spirited, irritable and completely under Lydia's guidance." - 5Mrs Bennet's motherhood revolves entirely around getting her daughter's married."the business of her life was to get her daughters married."
"Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted."
"You will have a charming mother-in-law, and of course she will always be at Pemberely with you." (MISS B) - 6Darcy and Georgiana have a more respectful sibling bond than the Bennet sisters."Her brother's recommendation was enough to ensure her favour; his judgment could not err."
"at first she often listened with astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive manner of talking to her brother." - 7Austen lists many physical and personality traits that constitute as feminine values."She is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia."
"She was a woman of mean undertaking, little information and uncertain temper." - 8There are many recreational activities that are seen to be important for a 'accomplished' woman."A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages..."
- 9Females are portrayed as obsessed with marriage."A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"I ask only a comfortable home,"
"If a woman conceals her affection [...] she may lose the opportunity of fixing him." - 10Miss Bingley and Mrs Hurst are seen as 'accomplished women'."with an air of decided fashion."
"his sisters are charming women."
"Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt […] protesting that they knew many women who answered this description,” - 11Lydia represents society's desperation to get married."Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman."
"I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest."
"Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!" - 12Lydia is not portrayed as an 'ideal' wife."I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well."
"to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once." - 13Lady Catherine is completely against marrying below your social class."you should not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up."
"Are the shades of Pemberely to be thus polluted?"
"Unfeeling, selfish girl! Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?" - 14Your family connections play a large role in the social position you are allowed to marry."He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter: so far we are equal."
"With such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it." (MRS HURST)
"His sense of inferiority - of it's being a degradation [...] were dwelt on." - 15Upper class is often synonymous with being narcissistic and thinking rudely of others."entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others."
"She (Lady Catherine) likes to have the distinction of rank preserved." - 16You must have a lot of money to marry well."no man in his senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year."
"I suppose you would not ask for above fifty thousand pounds."
"Wickham will never marry a woman without some money," - 17Lydia cannot be trusted with money and misuses it."I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not."
- 18The Lucas' aquired wealth through trade, much like the Bingley's."formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood."
"where he could think with pleasure of his own important [...] unshackled by business," - 19Money is important to be seen as worthy in society."When Mr Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless, for, of course, they were to have a son."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - 20Money is important to be seen as worthy in society. (part two)"the report which was circulated within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year."
"Their fortune on both sides is splendid." - 21Darcy's successful proposal to Elizabeth."My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever."
- 22Darcy's failed proposal to Elizabeth."You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed." - 23Mr Collin's proposal to Elizabeth."Almost as soon as I entered this house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life."
"Mr Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth, and it was soon done."
"First, that I think it is right of every clergyman...to set as example of matrimony." - 24Mr Bingley's proposal to Jane."I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!"
- 25Elizabeth's rejection to Mr Collin's proposal."Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me [...] it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline."
- 26Mr Collin's reaction to Elizabeth's rejection of him."It is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you."
"your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course."
"you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense." - 27Communication is seen to fail, leading to misunderstandings in relationships."he does not know Jane's disposition as you do."
"And your defect is to hate everybody."..."And yours [...] is wilfully to misunderstand them." - 28Mrs Bennet can not communicate well, and comes across as foolish through her naivety."Those who do not complain are never pitied."
"But he seemed to like his second better."..."Oh! You mean Jane," - 29Facades of humility are used often cover up further deceit."Nothing is more deceitful...than the appearance of humility."
"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
"Mr Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air and walk." - 30Miscommunication leads to the Darcy's being seen as something that they are not, on false pretences."He never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintances. With them he is remarkably agreeable."
"I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly."
"she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she only exceedingly shy.” - 31Town gossip is shown to be dangerous and often wrong."The party [...] consisted only of five people all together."
"if it were to get round to the lady's family, it would be an unpleasant thing."
"All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light." - 32Lydia's scandal is seen to be highly frowned upon by society."The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this."
“Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful." - 33Mr Wickham is later uncovered to be quite a deceitful character, and hated by society."everyone declared that he was the wickedest young man."
"All Merytone seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light." - 34Mr Wickham's behaviour is rather deceitful and he puts on a facade of respectability."his behaviour towards myself has been scandalous."
"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
“Whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done gracefully. Elizabeth went away with her head full of him.”
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