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Pride & predjudice

Donna Buitink & Imme Buchner 
A6B

What do you think the book is about after reading the title?

Why do you think this title was chosen?

Literary device: setting

• 1811 & 1812  
• England 
• Counties: Hertfordshire &  Derbyshire 
• Countryside 
• Stately homes 

The plot of the story is all about wealth and status. How do you see that in the setting?

1. You can tell by the years in which the story takes place.
2. You can tell by the stately homes some of the characters own.
3. You can tell by the location where the story takes place.
4. The setting shows nothing about wealth and status.

Plot

Elizabeth Bennet

• Second eldest daughter 
• Independence
• Prejudice 
• Stubborn 
• Falls in love with Mr. Darcy 

Fitzwilliam Darcy

• Wealthy 
• Proud and vain
• Falls in love with Elizabeth
• Changes his behaviour

Jane Bennet

• Oldest daughter 
• Elegant
• Marries Mr. Bingle (friend Mr. Darcy) 
• Obstacles: interference of others 
• Optimism & naivety 

Mrs. Bennet

• Mother of Elizabeth
• 5 daugthers 
•  Foolish and noisy
• Concerned

George Wickham

• Officer 
• Charming
• Liar
• Marries Lydia

Connect the two Bennet sisters with the right husband

Mr. Darcy 

Mr. Bingley

Antagonist

• Mr. Darcy: source of conflict and misunderstanding 

1.  Pride & predjudice 
2. Interference in romantic relationships 

• Mr. Wickham

1. Desire for financial gain 
2. Runs away with Lydia 

• Social class difference 

1. Relationship Jane Bennet & Mr. Bingley 

Which antagonist do you think is most important in the story?

Mr. Darcy

Mr. Wickham

Social class diffrence

Literary device: narrator

• Third-person omniscient narrator 
• Elizabeth’s point of view
• Free indirect speech

“There could be no conversation in the noise of Mrs. Phillips’s supper party, but his manners recommended him to everybody. Whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done gracefully. "

What is an important feature of third-person omniscient narrator

1. You only get inside information about Elizabeth
2. There are no conversations in the novel, as everything is told indirectly
3. provides more context and detail in the story
4. All of the answers are correct

Author: Jane Austen 

• Born: 1775, England
• Passed away: 1817, England
• Unremarkable people in unremarkable situations of everyday life
• Father was a scholar 
• 7 siblings 
• Second youngest child

Literary device: context 

Historical context

• Regency Era
• Social structure & gender roles
• Napoleonic wars (1803 - 1815) & industrial revolution
• Literary landscape 

Litrary device: wit

• Intelligent humour
• Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet
• Adds interest

“If your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness, if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley,” 

Which quote is an example of witty and which is not?

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.” “You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

example of wit

Not an example of wit

Literary device: class difference 

• Society diveded
• Important
• Sarcastic

"Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.“

If you lived in the time, in which this book takes place, which class would you belong to?

working class

lower middle class

upper middle class

upper class

And could you explain why this class?

Theme: social class difference

• Women could not inherit money 
• Overly invested in social position: Lady Catherine (aunt Mr. Darcy)
• Wearing social positon lightly: Bingley 

''It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.''

Are social class differences still as significant in today's society as they were in the time of Jane Austen?

Theme: pride & prejudice

• Colouring their judgements 
• Pride blinds 
• Make wrong assumptions 

“There is not another woman in the room, whom it would not be a punishment for me to stand up [dance] with,”

Theme: love & marriage

• Marrying for economic stability
• Elizabeth Bennet marries solely out of love, rather than money
• Mrs. Bennet

''The business of her life was to get her daughters married"

If you were Mrs. Bennet in this story, would you care that your daughters married rich men?

Yes

No

Questions?