Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Teaching notes
Get students into groups and give each group one of the tables. The first
person in the group should complete the first box – ‘point about character’
– then pass it to the next person in the group who completes the next box –
‘techniques or narrator’s method’.
Keep going until all the boxes are filled then encourage the students to
discuss their answers.
NB Quotations have been taken from the Penguin Popular Classics (1994)
edition.
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Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Table A
Point about character
In Chapter 19, Mr Collins is presented as …
Evidence
‘Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as
the companion of my future life. But before I am run away
with by my feelings on this subject, perhaps it will be
advisable for me to state my reasons for marrying —’
Techniques or narrator’s
method
What does this reveal
about the character?
What are their
motivations / behaviour
/ attitude like?
Do any specific words
have a lot of impact in
terms of understanding
character?
How do readers respond
to the character at this
point?
What might Austen have
wanted to show about
marriage and courtship
in the 1800s?
Possible techniques
dialogue
exaggeration
narrator’s comment
adjectives
sarcasm
listing
adjectives
diction (word choice)
adverbs
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Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Table B
Point about character
In Chapter 19, Mr Collins is presented as…
Evidence
‘This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it
will not sink me in your esteem. And now nothing remains for
me but to assure you in the most animated language of the
violence of my affection.’
Techniques or narrator’s
method
What does this reveal
about the character?
What are their
motivations / behaviour
/ attitude like?
Do any specific words
have a lot of impact in
terms of understanding
character?
How do readers respond
to the character at this
point?
What might Austen have
wanted to show about
marriage and courtship
in the 1800s?
Possible techniques
dialogue
exaggeration
narrator’s comment
adjectives
sarcasm
listing
adjectives
diction (word choice)
adverbs
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Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Table C
Point about character
In Chapter 19, Lizzy is presented as…
Evidence
‘Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me. I
am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is
impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them.’
Techniques or narrator’s
method
What does this reveal
about the character?
What are their
motivations / behaviour
/ attitude like?
Do any specific words
have a lot of impact in
terms of understanding
character?
How do readers
respond to the
character at this point?
What might Austen
have wanted to show
about marriage and
courtship in the 1800s?
Possible techniques
dialogue
exaggeration
narrator’s comment
adjectives
sarcasm
listing
adjectives
diction (word choice)
adverbs
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Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Table D
Point about character
In Chapter 19, Lizzy is presented as…
Evidence
‘I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me
happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the
world who would make you so.’
Techniques or narrator’s
method
What does this reveal
about the character?
What are their
motivations / behaviour
/ attitude like?
Do any specific words
have a lot of impact in
terms of understanding
character?
How do readers
respond to the
character at this point?
What might Austen
have wanted to show
about marriage and
courtship in the 1800s?
Possible techniques
dialogue
exaggeration
narrator’s comment
adjectives
sarcasm
listing
adjectives
diction (word choice)
adverbs
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Character analysis – consequence style
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Table E
Point about character
In Chapter 19, Mr Collins is presented as…
Evidence
‘My situation in life, my connections with the family of de
Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances
highly in my favour; and you should take it into further
consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is
by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever
be made you. Your portion is unhappily so small, that it will in
all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable
qualifications.’
Techniques or narrator’s
method
What does this reveal
about the character?
What are their
motivations / behaviour
/ attitude like?
Do any specific words
have a lot of impact in
terms of understanding
character?
How do readers respond
to the character at this
point?
What might Austen have
wanted to show about
marriage and courtship
in the 1800s?
Possible techniques
dialogue
exaggeration
narrator’s comment
adjectives
sarcasm
listing
adjectives
diction (word choice)
adverbs
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