Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

1. Themes

2. Characters

   • Elizabeth Bennet
     • Characteristics
       • Lively
         • Playful
         • "She had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous"
       • Prejudice
         • Prejudice of social prejudices
         • "She had been blind, partial, prejudice, absurd"
       • Proud
         • "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine"
       • Modern
         • Forward thinking
           • "Sick of civility"
           • Intelligent
             • "Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters"
         • Witty
           • Mentally quick
           • Sharp tongue
             • "Petulance and acrimony in her manner of rejecting him"
         • Strong willed
           • "I may safely promise never to dance with him"
   • Mr Darcy
     • Wealthy
       • Too conscious of social status
         • Points out that Elizabeth is an unsuitable match for him when he proposes to her
         • "Inferiority of your connections"
       • "Ten thousand a year"
       • "The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence"
     • Proud
       • "He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world"
       • "Above being pleased"
       • "He is not at all liked in Hertfordshire. Everybody is disgusted with his pride"
     • Prejudice
       • Judges Elizabeth harshly
     • Hard to please
       • "There is not another girl in the room whom it
     • Intelligent
     • Rude
       • "Till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity"
       • "Unworthy to be compared to his friend"
       • "Horrid man"
       • "Darcy was continually giving offence"
     • Generous
     • Handsome
       • "Fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien"
   • Charlotte Lucus
   • Mr Bennet
   • Mrs Bennet
   • Jane Bennet
   • Mr Bingley
   • Mr Collins
   • Miss Bingley
   • Lady Catherine De Bourgh
   • Lydia