IB Literature I—Pfeiffer
December-January Vacation Assignment 2013
The assignment over the holiday is to read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics, ISBN 14-143951-8). Besides
the information on the Study Guide beginning on the next page, here is the specific information about which chapters to
annotate; it might be helpful for you to circle the chapter numbers before you begin reading. For the assigned chapters, the
minimum annotation is to make two meaningful notes per page:
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one note about content: what is written; e.g. character, theme, plot.
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one on form: how it is written; e.g. figurative language, allusion, style, diction, narrative structure, metalinguistic
references.
Remember that merely labeling (writing a word in the margin like “allusion” or “theme”) and merely underlining or
highlighting does not count as annotation.
Pride and Prejudice
Volume 1: chapters 1, 3-4, 6, 8, 10-11, 16, 18-20, 23.
Volume 2: chapters 25-26, 28, 31-37.
Volume 3: chapters 43-45, 48, 50, 52-54, 56-61.
Also, there are a few other things I would like you to know before we head into the second semester:
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After surveying your writing done this semester, I highly suggest that you re-read a couple of essential parts of
the Guidebook before we resume class in January: the Guide to Writing About Literature (25-26), the Guide to
Writing Well (27-36--this includes Sentence Composing, which many of you need to work on), and the Guide to
Using Quotations (37-38).
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Consider looking for 3 poems you might consider for next semester's HS English Department’s Poetry
Recitation 2013; our class round of recitations will be at the end of February. See Pfeifferopolis (on the main IB Lit
G11 page) for the information about this HS event, along with the guidelines for poem selection, and the list of
poets.
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Finally, you might want to know that we will have a quiz on page 15 of the Literary Terms on 30-31 January.
IB Literature I—Pfeiffer
JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813)
Background & Study Guide for Volume 1
How to Study this Novel: This packet contains essential background information and my Study Guide for Volume 1 (chapters 1-23).
Begin by starting the novel, read the first two pieces to help you understand the historical and cultural context in which Austen wrote. Then
read Volume 1 of the novel. [See the Vacation Assignment on Pfeifferopolis for the specific chapters you will be annotating; you do
not have to annotate the whole novel.] After reading Volume 1, read the information in this packet about Austen’s style and the novel’s
geography—it’s important that you have that information in mind. Go to Pfeifferopolois for the Study Guides to Volumes 2 & 3 of the novel;
print them out and have them in front of you as you read the remainder of the novel.
Included in this packet:
1. “England in Austen’s Time,” Fay Weldon
2. “Jane Austen and Her Times,” Barron Notes
3. Austen’s Style
4. Geography in Pride and Prejudice
5. Study Guide for Volume 1
On Pfeifferopolis, for you to print out on your own:
6. Study Guides for Volumes 2 & 3
"England in Austen's Time," Fay Weldon [from Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, 1984; second edition 1999]
In the form of a letter to her niece Alice, British novelist Fay Weldon explains the discrepancy between the harsh society in which Jane Austen
lived and the gentler society she portrays in her novels. According to Weldon, women in the late eighteenth century lacked basic rights and
endured all kinds of dangers and duties. Conceding that the real life of women in Austen's time must seem unbelievable to a modern English
girl like Alice, Weldon suggests that Austen may simply have created an idyllic fictional world as an alternative to the unpleasantness she
nevertheless took for granted in the real world. Novels, Weldon reminds her niece, are inventions of the imagination, not records of history.
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y dear Alice,
...I do believe it is the battle the writer wages with the real world which provides the energy for invention. I think Jane
Austen waged a particularly fearful battle, and that the world won in the end and killed her: and we are left with the seven
great novels. I know you've been told six. But she did write another, Lady Susan, a diverting, energetic and excellent novel, when she
was very young, at about the same time as she wrote the comparatively tedious and conventional Sense and Sensibility (please don't
read it first). She put Lady Susan in a drawer. She did not attempt to have it published; nor, later, did her family. My own feeling is that
they simply did not like it. They thought it unedifying and foolish, and that wicked adventuresses should not be heroines, and
women writers should not invent, but only describe what they know. They had, in fact, a quite ordinary and perfectly
understandable desire to keep Jane Austen respectable, ladylike and unalarming, and Lady Susan was none of these things....
You must understand, I think, the world into which Jane Austen was born. I do not think the life or personality of writers to be
particularly pertinent to their work.... But I do think the times in which writers live are important. The writer must write out of a
tradition—if only to break away from it... He, or she, writes out of a society: links the past of that society with its future....
Jane Austen concerned herself with what to us are observable truths, because we agree with them. They were not so
observable at the time. [In reading Pride and Prejudice] we believe with her that Elizabeth should marry for love, and that Charlotte
was extremely lucky to find happiness with Mr. Collins, whom she married so as not, in a phrase dating from that time, to be left on
"the shelve." [Austen] believed it was better not to marry at all, than to marry without love. Such notions were quite new at the
time. It surprises us that in her writing she appears to fail to take the pleasures of sex into account, but that was the convention at
the time: we disapprove, where her society most approves. She is not a gentle writer. Do not be misled: she is not ignorant, merely
discreet: not innocent, merely graceful. She lived in a society which assumed—as ours does—that its values were right. It had God
on its side, and God had ordained the ranks of His people; moreover, He had made men men and women women, and how could a
thing like that be changed? It is idle to complain that Jane Austen lacked a crusading zeal. With hindsight, it is easy to look at the
world she lived in, and say she should have. What she did seems to me more valuable. She struggled to perceive and describe the
flow of beliefs that typified her time, and more, to suggest for the first time that the personal, the emotional, is in fact the
moral—nowadays, of course, for good or bad, we argue that it is political. She left a legacy for the future to build upon.
ENGLISH LIFE IN AUSTEN'S TIME
I want you to conceive of England, your country, two hundred years ago. A place without detergents or tissues or tarmaced
[asphalt] roads or railway trains, or piped water, let alone electricity or gas or oil; where energy (what a modern term) was
provided by coal, and wood, and the muscle of human beings, and that was all. Where the fastest anyone could cover the ground
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was the speed of the fastest horse, and where, even so, letters could be posted in London one evening and be delivered in
Hereford the next morning. Because people were so poor—most people—they would run, and toil, and sweat all day and all night
to save themselves and their children from starvation. Rather like India is today. If you were a child and your parents died, you lived
on the streets: if you were a young woman and gave birth out of wedlock you would, like as not, spend the rest of your life in a
lunatic asylum, classified as a moral imbecile. If you tried to commit suicide to save yourself from such a life, you would be saved,
and then hanged. (These last two "ifs," incidentally, applied as recently as fifty years ago.) If you stole anything worth more than £5
you could be hanged, or transported to a penal colony for life. If it was under £5 there were long, harsh prison sentences in
unspeakable prisons, and the age of criminal liability was seven. No casual vandals or graffiti writers then.
Child, you don't know how lucky you are. If you cheat on The Underground they give you a psychiatrist. If you break a leg,
there's someone to mend it. If you have a cold in the nose, you use a tissue and flush it down the W.C.: Jane Austen used a pocket
handkerchief, and had a maid to boil it clean. Fair enough, if you're Jane Austen, but supposing you were the maid? You would be
working eighteen hours a day or so, six-and-a-half days a week, with one day off a month, and thinking yourself lucky.
EMPLOYMENT CHOICES FOR WOMEN
If you weren't the maid, you might well be working on the land. Well into the nineteenth century, agriculture was the largest
single source of employment for women. And do not think for one moment women of the working classes did not work, or had
husbands able and willing to support them. A young country girl (and only fifty per cent of the population lived in towns) would be
on the farm, cooking, cleaning, washing clothes—and carrying the water, and chopping the wood and lighting the boiler to heat
it—feeding animals, milking cows, planting, gleaning, gathering hay. If you worked in the dairy you would at least have the pleasure of
developing skills, and would be better paid, but your day would start at 3 A.M. and end in the late evening. Your reward would be in
heaven. The Bible rather rashly claimed that that was where the poor went, thus giving the rich every justification for preserving
their poverty. No one's health was good—T.B. [tuberculosis] afflicted a sizeable proportion of the population. If you, as a young
woman, fled to the city to improve your life, you could, with difficulty, become an apprentice and learn the traditional women's
trades of millinery, embroidery, or seaming; or you could be a chimney sweep (from the age of six) or you could become a butcher
(a nasty trade, despised by men) or a prostitute—70,000, they reckoned, in London at the turn of the [19 th] century, out of a
population of some 900,000.
MARRIAGE AS AN OPTION
Or you could marry.
The trouble was that you had to be able to afford to marry. You were expected to have a dowry, provided by your parents or
saved by yourself, to give to your husband to offset your keep. For this great reason, and a variety of others, only thirty per cent of
women married. Seventy per cent remained unmarried. It was no use waiting for your parents to die so that you could inherit
their mansion, or cottage, or hovel, and so buy yourself a husband—your parents' property went to your brothers. Women
inherited only through their husbands, and only thus could gain access to property. Women were born poor, and stayed poor, and
lived well only by their husbands' favour. The sense of sexual sin ran high: the fear of pregnancy was great—you might well estimate
that half the nation's women remained virgins all their lives....
So to marry was a great prize. It was a woman's aim. No wonder Jane Austen's heroines were so absorbed by the matter. It is
the stuff of our women's magazines but it was the stuff of their life, their very existence. No wonder Mrs. Bennet, driven half-mad
by anxiety for her five unmarried daughters, knowing they would be unprovided for when her husband died, as indeed would she,
made a fool of herself in public, husband-hunting on her girls' behalf. Politeness warred, as always, with desperation. Enough to give
anyone the vapours!
Women survived, in Jane Austen's day, by pleasing and charming if they were in the middle classes, and by having a good, strong
working back if they were of the peasantry. Writing was, incidentally, one of the very few occupations by which impoverished and
helpless female members of the gentry could respectably—well, more or less—earn money. To be a governess was another, much
fabled, occupation. Beautiful and talented governess, handsome scion of ancient housing, marrying where he loved and not where
he ought.... It was a lovely, if desperate, fantasy. (See Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.)
The average age of puberty, incidentally, was later in their day than it is now. In 1750 we know it to have been between eighteen
and twenty. General malnutrition and low female body weights were no doubt the cause. Marriage was later, too: on average
between twenty-five and twenty-eight, though Jane Austen's heroines seem to have started panicking in their early twenties. Lydia,
in Pride and Prejudice, managed it at the age of sixteen, and shocked everyone by revealing everyone's true feelings—trailing her
hand with its new wedding-ring out of the carriage window as she rode triumphantly into town, so that everyone would know.
Married! Jane Austen herself put on her cap when she was thirty. That is, she announced herself by her dress as out of the
marriage market, now resigned to growing old with as much grace and dignity as she could muster. Thirty!
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WOMEN LACKED RIGHTS
Once you were married, of course, life was not rosy. Any property you did acquire belonged to your husband. The children were
his, not yours. If the choice at childbirth was between the mother or child, the mother was the one to go. You could not sue, in
your own name. (By the same token at least you could not be sued.) He could beat you, if he saw fit, and punish your children
likewise. You could be divorced for adultery, but not divorce him for the same offence. Mind you, divorce was not a way out of
marital problems. Marriage was forever. Between 1650 and 1850 there were only 250 divorces in England.
You put up with the sex life you had, and were not, on the whole, and in the ordinary ranks of society, expected to enjoy it. It
tended to result, for one thing, in childbirth. Contraception was both wicked and illegal, against God's law and the land's.
Abstinence was the decent person's protection against pregnancy. There were, of course, then as now, libidinous sections of
society, the wild young of the upper classes, and free thinkers, who saw sexual freedom as the path to political liberty: and, of
course, there were married couples who did find a real and sensual satisfaction in each other—but this was a bonus, not
something to be taken for granted: certainly nothing you could go to a Marriage Counsellor about.
The fact that there were 70,000 prostitutes in London in 1801, out of a female population of some 475,000, indicates that your
husband at least would not be virginal on marriage. He would quite possibly be diseased. Venereal disease was common, and often
nastily fatal.
Alice, by your standards, it was a horrible time to be alive. Yet you could read and read Jane Austen and never know it. And why
should you? Novelists provide an escape from reality: they take you to the City of Invention. When you return you know more
about yourself. You do not read novels for information, but for enlightenment. I don't suppose Jane Austen thought particularly
much about the ills of her society. All this, for her, was simply what the world was like....
WOMEN'S DUTY TO BEAR CHILDREN
Now, Alice, there you are, a typical young woman of the 1799s. We're supposing you're working on the land, and of peasant
stock. You've scraped your dowry together and you've found your young (or old, often quite old!) man, and got yourself married.
Your prime duty is to have children. The clergyman has told you so at the wedding ceremony. "Marriage is designed by God for the
procreation of children...." Everyone believes it. (If you turned out to be barren, that was a terrible disaster, not just personally but
socially. It made you a non-woman.... But such disasters apart, you're likely to be pregnant within a year of marriage and carry one
child successfully to term every two years until the menopause. This seems to be the rate which nature, uninterfered with, decrees
for human reproduction. Fifty per cent of all the babies would die before they were two: from disease due to malnutrition,
ignorance, or infection. Every death would be the same misery it is today. Your many pregnancies would be plentifully interrupted
by miscarriages, and one baby in every four would be still-born. Midwives, mercifully, did not customarily allow imperfect babies to
live, nor were they expected to. Child delivery was primitive and there were no analgesics. Child care was not considered a
full-time job. Babies were swaddled and hung on pegs out of the way while mothers went on keeping the wolf from the door. If the
mother's milk failed, the babies would be fed on gruel, soaked into sacking and sucked out by the baby.
Your own chances of dying in childbirth were not negligible and increased with every pregnancy. After fifteen pregnancies (which
meant something like six babies brought to term and safely delivered) your chances of dying were (Marie Stopes later claimed)
one in two....
Back to you, Alice, mother of six, aged thirty, with your backache and your varicose veins and your few teeth, carrying water
from the village well for all your family's needs, and water is about as heavy a soul's task as you can get, and you have to choose if
they're going to be clean or you're going to be ill....
So you must understand there were compensations to be found in virginity, in abstinence, in fidelity, and in spinsterhood, which
are not found today, and read Jane Austen bearing this in mind.
There were more positive compensations for living in this terrible time. The countryside must have been very, very pretty. The
hedgerows and blasted oaks had not been rooted out by agro-industrialists, and wild flowers and butterflies flourished to brighten
the gentle greyish greens of the landscape. These days the greens are brighter and the fields are smoother, thanks to insecticides,
nitrates and herbicides. And everything you looked at would have been lovely: furniture (if you had any) made of seasoned oak, and
by craftsmen working out of a tradition unequalled anywhere in the world—usefulness working in the service of grace. New and
different buildings going up everywhere, as the population grew and the middle classes with it....
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Perhaps landscape, buildings and objects had to be beautiful to compensate for the ugliness of the people. Malnutrition,
ignorance and disease ensured a hopping, shuffling, peering, scrofulous [having TB, tuberculosis] population, running short of eyes
and limbs. Crutches, peg-legs, glass-eyes and hooks were much in demand. If the children had pink cheeks it was because they had
T.B. Do not be deceived by the vision of Georgian England as a rural idyll. Artists of the time liked to depict it as such, naturally
enough . . . and so did writers, and while you are reading Jane Austen you are perfectly entitled to suspend your disbelief, as she
was when she wrote. Fiction, thank God, is not and need not be reality. The real world presses forcibly enough into the imaginative
adventure that is our life, without fiction aiding and abetting.
CHANGES FOR THE BETTER
During Jane Austen's lifetime—she was born in December 1775 and died in July 1817—attitudes, they say, changed significantly.
They became, for a time, before the rigours of Victorian puritanism set in, more relaxed. The age of puberty declined; sexual
activity in women was less surprising and less alarming; young women, increasingly, chose to marry for love and not at their
parents' choosing. There was an increase in the marriage rates, a lowering of the age of marriage, and a dramatic rise in the
illegitimacy rate. Women became more fertile, for good or bad. The rate of infant mortality decreased....
Why, you ask? Better nutrition, a new understanding of hygiene, the aftermath of the French Revolution, the loosening of the
stranglehold of the Church, more novels and better novels read by more people in the opinion-forming ranks of society, better
poetry—not wide-sweeping social changes, waves in the body politic but the sharp focusing power of individuals....
Any theory will do until the next one replaces it. Being a writer, I like the better-novels theory, which I hereby give you. If the
outer world is a mere reflection of the inner one, if as you refine the person so the outer aspects of the world are refined, so will
social change work from the inside out, from the individual out into the wider community. Enlighten people, and you enlighten
society. How's that? That is enough for now....
With love, Aunt Fay
Jane Austen and Her Times, Barron's Notes (1984)
Austen was a country parson's daughter who lived most of her life in a tiny English village. She began writing her first novel,
Jane
Sense and Sensibility, when she was still in her late teens. When she wrote the original version of her second and most famous
novel, Pride and Prejudice (originally entitled First Impressions), she was not yet twenty-one. At that time she had never been away
from home, except for a few years at a girls' boarding school before the age of ten. And yet, although she had seen almost nothing
of the world beyond Steventon, the town where she grew up, she was able to write a witty, worldly novel of love, money, and
marriage.
Jane Austen's world seems very narrow to us today. The year she was born, 1775, was an important one in English as well as
American history, but to the people of the little village of Steventon, the American Revolution was something very far away that
hardly touched their lives at all. Years later while Austen was writing her novels, England was involved in the Napoleonic Wars,
but you won't find much mention of them in her work. One reason these wars did not affect the English at home very much was
that they were fought entirely on foreign soil or at sea, and they did not involved very large numbers of Englishmen. (Two of Jane
Austen's brothers did see combat as naval officers and both reached the rank of admiral, and a naval officer who did well in the
wars is one of her most attractive heroes in her last novel, Persuasion.) Another reason is that—without television, radio,
telephones, automobiles, or even railroads— news traveled slowly.
People traveled very little, and when they did it was on foot, by public coach, or—if they could afford it—by private carriage.
In the evenings they sat together around the fire, mother and girls mending or embroidering by candlelight and often someone
reading aloud. For entertainment, they might visit a neighbor or go to a dance in the village public hall. At these so-called
assemblies, young people were chaperoned by mothers and aunts, and only the most correct behavior was tolerated. If there was a
large estate in the neighborhood, the squire or lord of the manor would give evening parties and occasionally a ball, to which his
lady would invite the leading families of the countryside.
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the family sitting room while her six brothers and a sister, her father’s pupils, and
visiting neighbors swirled around her. She would cover her manuscript with a blotter during interruptions and take up her pen
again when the room was quiet. All the while, she was watching, listening, and thinking about the world around her. The novel
reflects her understanding of and active involvement with ordinary people
The plot of Pride and Prejudice is based on the concerns of people in early nineteenth-century country society. One of these
concerns is money. Austen could observe the money problems of a middle-class family right in her own home. As a clergyman of
the Church of England, her father was an educated man and a gentleman. But his parish consisted of only about three hundred
people, and his income didn’t provide well for his family, so he had to take in students in addition to his church duties. Even so, he
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could send only one son, the oldest, to Oxford University, and he couldn’t give his daughters attractive dowries or an income if
they remained unmarried.
Like other young women of their social class, Jane and her sister Cassandra were educated, mostly at home, in the "ladylike"
subjects of music, drawing and painting, needlework, and social behavior. Thanks to her father and her own literary tastes, Jane was
also very well read. Tall and graceful, with dark hair and beautiful hazel eyes, she enjoyed parties, liked to dance, and had numerous
suitors. As it turned out, however, neither Jane nor her sister Cassandra ever married. After their father died in 1805, they and
their mother were cared for by a brother who—because of the Austen family’s poor financial situation—had been adopted by a
wealthy childless couple and had inherited a sizable estate. (Such financial adoptions were a fairly common custom of the time.)
Such realities of middle-class life are central to Pride and Prejudice. Critics of a hundred or so years ago called Jane Austen
"vulgar" and "mercenary," because she writes so frankly about money. One of the first things we learn about her characters, for
example, is how much income they have. Her critics considered it bad taste to talk about money, either one’s own or someone
else’s.
But in the middle class of Jane Austen’s time, the amount of your income could be a matter of life and death. What is more, it
was not money you worked for and earned that mattered, but money you were born to or inherited. People who worked—
businessmen, manufacturers, and even some professional people, such as lawyers—were not accepted as members of the "gentry."
They were "in trade," and the gentry looked down on them.
While Austen was writing in the beginning of the nineteenth century, a great change was coming over England. The industrial
revolution was reaching its height in the first half of that century, and a new middle class of prosperous factory owners was
developing. Yet in the midst of this change, one ancient English tradition still survived, and that was that the true gentry were not
the newly rich in the cities but those who lived on their inherited estates. The new middle class, who had become rich "in trade,"
were therefore buying manor houses and estates in the country, and setting up their heirs as members of the landed aristocracy.
In Pride and Prejudice the two leading male characters represent this social change. Mr. Darcy's aristocratic family goes back
for generations, and he draws his income from his vast estate of tenant farms. His friend Mr. Bingley, however, is heir to a fortune
made "in trade" and is looking for a suitable country estate to establish himself in the upper class.
Notice how different characters in the novel react to these social distinctions. Jane Austen herself, through her heroine
Elizabeth, expresses her contempt for snobbery. You’ll find that she pokes fun at the snobs and makes them her most comical
characters.
Still, there was a very serious side to all this, and that was the situation of young women. In our time, women have many
other choices in addition to marriage. In Jane Austen’s time it wasn’t so. A young woman of her class depended for her happiness,
her health, in fact the whole shape of her life, on her making a good marriage. If her husband was poor or a gambler or a drunkard,
she and her children could suffer genuine privation. A girl with no fortune of her own often could not attract a husband. Then she
might have to become a governess, living in other people’s houses, looking after their children and subject to their whims.
The necessity of making a good marriage is one of the major themes of Pride and Prejudice, but that doesn’t mean the novel is
old fashioned. In fact, you may find that you can make a good argument for calling Jane Austen a feminist and her novel a feminist
novel. It’s a serious novel in many ways, but also a very funny one.
Jane Austen began writing novels simply to entertain herself and her family, with no idea of having her stories published. In
her time, novels weren’t considered a respectable form of literature, rather the way murder mysteries and Gothic romances are
looked down on by intellectuals in our own time. In Austen’s time, ministers preached and social critics thundered against the habit
of reading novels. Meanwhile, hundreds of novels were being published—most of them trashy romances or wildly exaggerated
adventure tales—and people went right on reading them.
Most of these novels, including some of the better ones, were written by women. Writing was one of the few possible
occupations for an intelligent, educated woman. Women could write at home while fulfilling their traditional role of running a
household and bringing up children. They could stay out of the public eye, hiding behind an assumed name. When Jane Austen’s
books were finally published, thanks to her brother Henry who acted as her agent, the title page just said "By a Lady. " Her novels
were read by a small, exclusive audience during her lifetime. She lived a quiet life and never yearned for celebrity.
Austen was working on her sixth and last novel, Persuasion, when Henry fell ill and she moved to London to nurse him. Soon
afterward, her own health began to fail. With Cassandra as her nurse and companion, she moved to Winchester to be treated by a
famous surgeon there. He apparently could not help her, and on July 18, 1817, she died, just five months short of her forty-second
birthday.
Judging from her letters, which radiate good humor and laugh off minor misfortunes, Jane Austen’s life, although short, was a
busy and contented one. If the lively, witty Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice was modeled on any living person, the model
must have been Jane Austen herself.
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JANE AUSTEN’S STYLE: Irony, Syntax, Aphorism
TONE—IRONY
Jane Austen is known for her humorous use of irony because she uses so many different kinds and uses them so skillfully. In
the broadest sense, irony is the recognition of the difference between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be). I
will review the different kinds of irony then give some examples from the novel.
Verbal Irony: A form of speaking in which one meaning is said and a different, usually opposite meaning is intended. All of
us speak ironically at times. If you say, "Nice weather, huh?!" when the temperature is in the upper 30s, you have probably
indicated what you really meant by the expression on your face and by your tone of voice. In speech, tone of voice makes
ironic intent obvious, but a writer has to show irony in a less obvious way, so sometimes it is hard for the reader to
recognize. These days sarcasm is the most common verbal irony; it is harsh and heavy-handed, rather than clever. Austen is
much more subtle and clever in her irony.
There are different kinds of verbal irony, such as overstatement (hyperbole; obvious exaggeration), understatement (litotes;
affirming something by stating the negative of its opposite: Saying, "She is no fool," instead of "She is intelligent."), and negative
description ("X was not Y").
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See the end of this sheet for a response I wrote to show past students a model of a written response on tone.
Elizabeth says, "Mr. Darcy is all politeness," but she doesn't believe he is polite at all. (27)
After Darcy says, “...it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a
strong understanding to ridicule,“ Elizabeth responds, "Such as vanity and pride.” (56) She is being
ironic because this is precisely what she thinks he is: vain and prideful.
At the Netherfield ball, when Mary won't stop playing the piano for everyone, thinking they love
hearing her play (when they wish she would stop), Mr. Bennet tells her, "That will do extremely well
child.You have delighted us long enough." (98)
Austen also uses ironic contradictions between a speaker and the narrator, or between speech and situation.
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Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst "indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's
vulgar relations." (37) The Bingley sisters cannot believe Jane is a dear friend if they mock her family.
When Miss Bingley asks Elizabeth what they should do after Darcy reveals their true reason for
walking in front of him, Elizabeth replies, “Tease him--laugh at him--Intimate as you are, you must know
how it is to be done.” (55) Of course, Caroline is anything but intimate with Darcy.
Situational Irony: The contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs. One glaring example
from the first part of the novel: because Miss Bingley constantly criticizes Elizabeth in front of him and brings up her family's
lack of status and propriety, she expects Darcy to dislike Elizabeth. Instead, her comments have no negative effect on him. A
form of situational irony, called dramatic irony, involves the audience's being aware of a character's real situation before the
character is.
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We know that Darcy is falling in love with Elizabeth, but she thinks he dislikes her.
We know that Mr. Bennet is mocking Mr. Collins when he asks him, "May I ask whether these pleasing
attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" (67)
In general, the key to understanding any kind of irony is to see where there is a gap or mismatch or difference between these things:
appearance
apparent meaning
apparent situation
what is intended
what is thought to be true
what is expected
how a person sees him/herself
impression a person gives of him/herself
pretense
perceived reason or motive
character's limited understanding
reality
 real meaning
 real situation
 what is actually done
 what is true
 what actually happens
 how others see him/her
 person's real nature
 actuality
 real reason or motive
 reader's more complete understanding
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Irony in Pride and Prejudice [I wrote this for a Pride and Prejudice course that I taught in Osaka to model how to write a
response on tone]
Like many of Austen's other novels, irony is used in Pride and Prejudice as the lens through which society and human
nature are viewed. The point of view is the third person, the objective view of an external observer. However, sometimes
this third-person point of view shifts to explore the thoughts and feelings of a character, and so becomes a third person
omniscient narrator. In the first line of the novel ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife") seems to be the voice of certain characters and is filled with irony: rather, it is a woman
who is in want of a husband of a good fortune, not the other way around; the truth being expressed, isn't truth for everyone,
only those pursuing rich men; and in the novel we will see that not all rich men are searching for wives. The narrator also
becomes omniscient when we go into Darcy's mind and see that he slips little by little in love with Elizabeth, as in this line:
"Her resistance [to dance with him] had not injured her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some
complacency" [in this context the word seems to mean "state of being pleased, tranquil pleasure in someone"] (25). Later in
the novel we go into Elizabeth's mind as she considers her own behavior and the behavior of others. The narrator seems to
be Austen as she shows a sharp, critical eye that observes and comments on her society's follies and foibles, making us aware
and making us laugh.
In the novel, Austen studies social relationships in the limited society of a country neighborhood and investigates
them in detail often with an ironic and humorous eye. An early example is in chapter one, with Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Their
contrasting temperaments are shown through their manner of conversation; Mrs. Bennet chatters on while Mr. Bennet
counters her talk with mildly sarcastic statements, a mocking tone Mrs. Bennet completely misses: "You want to tell me, and
I have no objection to hearing it...Is that his design in settling here?...for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley
might like you the best of the party" (5-6). After letting the reader hear the contrast between the couple through their
dialogue, Austen then provides a general summary on page 7 of the two parents' differing personalities. The difference
between them is amusing, but it is also ironic. In a novel about couples overcoming misunderstandings of each other to
reach marital happiness, the reader's first view of marriage is one of a mismatched couple that cannot communicate.
SYNTAX & APHORISM
Because literature of the time was filled with flowery wordiness and emotional excess, Jane Austen's narrative style was
unique in early nineteenth-century literature. Readers could choose among collections of sermons to improve their minds,
tales of sin and punishment to improve their morals, and horror stories to stimulate their circulation. On the other hand,
Pride and Prejudice is told in readable, engaging prose without superfluous words, and it frequently breaks into dialogue so
lively and so revealing of characters. As a result, entire scenes have been lifted bodily from the novel and reproduced in
dramatized versions for stage and screen, such as the BBC’s excellent five-hour 1995 film adaptation. As for point of view, in
some passages the author enters into the mind of one or another of her characters. As you know from our point of view
creative exercise, she sometimes has a paragraph where she assesses a situation through the minds of multiple characters,
revealing their varied attitudes and traits. Most often the narrator enters into the mind of her heroine Elizabeth, and there
she reveals her character's capacity for humor and self-criticism; through Elizabeth we see who and what is worthy of
ridicule. Austen's style is so deceptively lucid that we can hardly believe she submitted her writing to so much polishing and
revision. Here are some specific examples of elements of Austen’s use of syntax, aphorism, and irony.
SYNTAX
PARALLELISM
 She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. (7)
 The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. (7)
 He was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased. (12)
 …a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion. (18)
 The evening conversation…had lost much of its animation and almost all of its sense. (59)
PARENTHETICALS
 Having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments,
[she] was always impatient for display. (25)
 Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic
air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached. (25)
APHORISM (an aphorism is an adage, a short, terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as Lord
Acton’s famous line “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason. (33)
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion to be secure of judging properly at first. (92)
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GEOGRAPHY of Pride and Prejudice [from pemberley.com—a great site to check out]
Hertfordshire (“heart-ford-sure”), Derbyshire (“dar-bi-sure”), Kent and Sussex are counties in England that are referenced in the
novel.
Hertfordshire
Imaginary places in Hertfordshire:
Longbourn (residence of the Bennets), Netherfield Park (residence of the Bingleys), Lucas Lodge, (residence of the Lucases), and
the village of Meryton, where the militia regiment is quartered for a time. Less important places in the vicinity are Oakham Mount
(to which Darcy and Elizabeth walk in chapter 59), the memorably named town of “----” (where the London coaches stop, and the
George Inn is located), and the houses or estates of Ashworth, Haye-Park, Purvis Lodge, and Stoke (all of which Mrs. Bennet
considers as possible residences for one of her newly married daughters).
Derbyshire
Imaginary places in Derbyshire:
Pemberley (residence of Mr. Darcy) and the villages of Lambton (former residence of Mrs. Gardiner) and Kympton (where
Wickham was to be the clergyman).
Real places:
Scenic and tourist locations in Derbyshire mentioned in connection with Elizabeth and the Gardiners' tour are Bakewell,
Chatsworth, Matlock, Dove Dale, and the Peak. On their itinerary from Hertfordshire to Derbyshire, they took in Blenheim (the
estate of the Duke of Marlborough) and Oxford, in Oxfordshire; and Warwick, the famous ruined castle of Kenilworth, and the city
of Birmingham, in Warwickshire.
Kent
Imaginary places in Kent:
Rosings (the home of Lady Catherine) and Hunsford (where Mr. Collins is rector) are near Westerham.
Real places:
Ramsgate is a sea-side resort, where Georgiana Darcy stayed for a summer.
Other real places in the novel:
Sussex: On the southeast coast the town of Brighton is the fashionable seaside resort, with a temporary military camp, where
Lydia goes. In real life it was the hangout of the Prince Regent (the "king-in-waiting") and his decadent followers; in a letter of
January 8th 1799 to Cassandra, Jane Austen wrote "I assure you that I dread the idea of going to Brighton as much as you do, but I
am not without hopes that something may happen to prevent it." Eastbourne is another seaside town on the Sussex coast, to the
east of Brighton.
London: "Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted,” Jane Austen wrote
in a letter, August 1796.
London is located in southeastern Middlesex. In Austen's time, London area had over a million inhabitants (the first city in Europe
to do so), and was several times larger than any other city in Britain; London was often associated, in the imagination of Austen's
day, with loose morals in both low life and high society—a scene of fashionable, but not necessarily moral diversions and a
dangerous example to the rest of the country. Bromley is between Westerham and London, Epsom is on the southern-eastern
approaches to London, and Clapham is a neighborhood on the south side of the Thames (across from the “City” proper).
Cheapside, where the Bingley sisters accuse Mr. Gardiner of living (he actually lives in Gracechurch Street, further east) is an
unfashionably commercial neighborhood in the “City,” near St. Paul's. Grosvenor Street, where the Hursts live, is in a much more
fashionable neighborhood towards the West End.
The Lake country This area is rugged, scenic, and with literary associations—nineteenth-century Romantic poets such as
William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. It is in the far northwest of England; and Newcastle (where Wickham is later
stationed after his marriage) is in Northumberland in the northeast.
Gretna Green: This town is just over the Scottish border, had weak marriage laws during the 1754-1856 period, which meant it
was known for quickie marriages, even ones with minors who didn't want to have to get parental permission--few questions asked.
That's why Gretna Green is suspected as the destination of one of the Bennet daughters and her lover.
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IB Literature I—Pfeiffer
Study Guide for Pride and Prejudice Volume 1
The main families and characters at the beginning of the novel:
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet – Mr. Gardiner (her brother)
Jane
oldest (therefore, at times
called “Miss Bennet”)
Elizabeth (Lizzy)
Mary
Catherine (Kitty)
Lydia
youngest
The Bennet family lives on a small estate called Longbourne, in the village of Meryton,
in the county of Hertfordshire, in southeast England
Fitzwilliam Darcy – Georgiana (his sister)
Both their mother and father have died. Darcy is Georgiana’s guardian.
They live on a grand estate called Pemberley, in the county of Derbyshire, north of London
Charles Bingley (Darcy’s friend) – Mrs. Hurst and Caroline (his sisters)
We learn nothing of their parents, but they seem to have died. Bingley has been successful “in trade,” so to reflect this new social status, he
rents an estate near Meryton called Netherfield.
Sir William and Mrs. Lucas
Charlotte (Elizabeth’s friend)
Maria
several little Lucases
This family is friendly with the Bennet family; they also live near Meryton.
VOLUME ONE, CHAPTERS 1-12 (just to get you started)
Mrs. Bennet is excited that an eligible bachelor, Mr. Bingley, has rented the nearby mansion, Netherfield Park. She thinks this
will be a wonderful chance to marry off one of her five daughters. When Bingley meets Jane, the eldest Bennet sister, they enjoy
each other's company, and Jane tells her sister Elizabeth that she admires him very much. But Bingley's friend, Darcy, makes a
bad impression. He appears too proud and reserved, although he admits to Bingley's sister Caroline that he finds Elizabeth very
attractive. When Jane is invited to Netherfield to visit Bingley's haughty sisters and becomes ill with a cold, Elizabeth walks through
the mud to nurse her and stays until Jane is well enough to go home. During this time, Elizabeth becomes suspicious that Bingley's
sisters (Caroline and Mrs. Hurst) are hypocritical in their "friendship" with Jane, and that Caroline has designs on Darcy. She also
realizes, sadly, that her mother and younger sisters are behaving foolishly.
Pride and Prejudice: Guide for Chapters 1-2
CHARACTERS
Mr. Bennet
Country gentleman who has five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth (Lizzy), Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia; he
has married beneath him and regrets it; takes refuge in books and sarcastic wit; especially close to his
daughter Elizabeth, but also to Jane.
Mrs. Bennet
Unrefined, silly, and often the subject of her husband's sarcasm; her main goal is to marry off her
daughters.
Elizabeth (Lizzy)
Intelligent and witty; 20 years old; a keen observer of people and things around her.
Jane
Eldest Bennet daughter; 22 years old; more gentle and less judgmental than Elizabeth; they share a close
bond.
Mary
Less pretty and more serious than her other sisters; likes to show off her musical talents and book
learning.
Kitty
A little older than Lydia, around 16 years old; both Kitty and her youngest sister Lydia are silly, frivolous,
and mainly interested in parties, dances, clothes, and soldiers.
Lydia
Youngest Bennet daughter, 15 years old.
Mrs. Long
Neighbour of the Bennets who gossips with Mrs. Bennet.
Mr. Bingley
A well-mannered, pleasant young man; he has money, from his father's success in business; has just rented
an estate called Netherfield Park, which is near the village of Longbourn, where the Bennets live.
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VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel; many of them have other meanings, or the modern
meaning may be a bit different—that’s why you should keep this list nearby when you read. The words in bold will be on the next
vocabulary quiz. Remember that this novel uses British English. In the text you will also notice that some words have old spellings
(chuse = choose; teazing = teasing) and some have a space where we usually don't have one (any one; no where). Also, some words
have notations1, this means that you need to see the Explanatory Notes on pages 416-435 to understand the allusion.
word
rightful
let
tiresome
design
flatter
engage for
assure you
account
scrupulous
hearty
consent
quickness
vexing
compassion
consideration
sarcastic
caprice
insufficient
mean
temper
solace
intended
disclosed
resentfully
hypocritical
deigned
scolding
discretion
ill
fretfully
fortnight
circumspection
venture
office
emphatic
surpassing
tumult
raptures
amends
stoutly
conjecturing
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right, proper, just
to rent, lease
tedious, causing boredom
plan, intention
to compliment excessively
agree to
set the mind at rest, make certain
those circumstances
conscientious, principled
unrestrained warmth or feeling
permission, agreement
thinking, understanding
irritating, annoying, bothering
deep feeling of support
high regard
sharply mocking and ridiculing
willful behavior
not sufficient, inadequate
average, humble, dull
disposition, state of mind
comfort, consolation
had in mind, planned
made known, divulged
full of resentment
insincere
thought worthy of oneself
reprimanding
reservation, modesty
not favorably
feeling troubled, peevish
two weeks
prudence
take a risk
duty
forceful
going beyond the limit
commotion, disturbance
ecstatic expressions
reparations, payment
boldly, forcefully
guessing
context
considered as the rightful property of some one
Netherfield Park is let at last
how can you be so tiresome!
Is that his design in settling here?
My dear, you flatter me.
It is more than I engage for
I assure you
merely on that account
You are over scrupulous surely.
my hearty consent
my hearty consent to his marrying
Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters
You take delight in vexing me
You have no compassion on my poor nerves
you mention them with consideration these twenty years
sarcastic humour
sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice
experience of 3 and 20 years had been insufficient
She was a woman of mean understanding
uncertain temper
its solace was visiting and news
He had always intended to visit him
It was then disclosed in the following manner
said her mother resentfully
She is a selfish, hypocritical woman
Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply
began scolding one of her daughters
Kitty has no discretion in her coughs
She times them ill
replied Kitty fretfully
To-morrow fortnight [a fortnight from tomorrow]
I honour your circumspection
But if we do not venture
If you decline the office, I will take it on myself
emphatic exclamation
that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest
when the first tumult of joy was over
fatigued with the raptures of his wife
make him amends for his kindness
said Lydia stoutly
rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon
QUESTIONS to Check Your Understanding:
Chapter One
1.
How is the first line ironic? From whose point of view is it?
2.
How does the conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and the last paragraph show them and their relationship?
3.
Which daughter does each parent prefer and why?
Chapter Two
4.
Why does Mr. Bennet pretend to refuse to go visit Mr. Bingley?
5.
How does Mr. Bennet feel about Mary?
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6.
Why is Mr. Bennet the way he is?
Chapters 3-4
NEW CHARACTERS
Miss Caroline Bingley Bingley's sister; a fashionable young woman, but superficial and selfish, she's a social climber who is
ambitious to rise in society through marriage.
Mrs. Louisa Hurst
Bingley's married sister, similar in character to her younger sister.
Mr. Hurst
Bingley's brother in law; a lazy man only interested in food and entertainment.
Fitzwilliam Darcy
An extremely wealthy aristocrat (one of the top 400 most wealthy in England); proud, haughty and
extremely conscious of class differences at the beginning of the novel. He does, however, have a strong
sense of honor and virtue
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel; many of them have other meanings, or the modern
meaning may be a bit different. On page 12, &c = etc.
word
ingenious
suppositions
surmises
eluded
obliged
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original, imaginative
something supposed or assumed
something guessed at
escaped from
constrained because of some reason
ascertaining
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discovering, making certain
deferred
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put off, postponed
consequently
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following as a result or conclusion
disconcerted
grieved
countenance
unaffected
mien
principal
amiable
resentment
slighted
scarcity
insupportable
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fastidious
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beheld
tolerable
consequence
cordial
disposition
gratified
inhabitants
regardless
splendid
finery
rudeness
horrid
conceited
set downs
detest
gallantry
apt
hasty
censuring
follies
candid
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upset, disordered, ruffled
be sorrowful, distressed, mourned
appearance, facial expression
natural, genuine
manner, appearance, expression
high ranking, important
good-natured, sociable
indignation as a result of a perceived offense
treated with inattention or disrespect
insufficient amount, shortage
unbearable, intolerable
excessively sensitive in matters of taste or
propriety
looked upon, gazed at
endurable, fair, adequate, passable
distinction, importance in rank, significance
warm, sincere, hearty
one's usual mood, temperament
pleased, satisfied
people who live in a certain place
unmindful, heedless
glorious, praiseworthy
fine clothing and accessories
ill-mannered behavior, discourtesy
dreadful, offensive, extremely disagreeable
vain
critical remarks, rebukes
dislike intensely, abhor
courteous attention, especially to a lady
inclined, likely to do or be something
eager, impatient, rash
condemning, judging
foolish acts
honest, frank, natural
context
ingenious suppositions
ingenious suppositions
distant surmises
but he eluded the skill of them all
they were at last obliged to accept
they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper
window
an answer which deferred it all
consequently unable to accept the honour of their
invitation
Mrs. Bennet was quite disconcerted
The girls grieved over such a number of ladies
he had a pleasant countenance
a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners
noble mien
acquainted with all the principal people in the room
Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves.
sharpened into particular resentment
by his having slighted one of her daughters
by the scarcity of gentlemen
it would be insupportable
I would not be so fastidious as you are
the most beautiful creature I ever beheld
She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me
to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted
with no very cordial feelings towards him
she had a lively, playful disposition
Jane was as much gratified by this
they were the principal inhabitants
With a book he was regardless of time
evening which had raised such splendid expectations
protested against any description of finery
the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy
he is a most disagreeable, horrid man
so conceited that there was no enduring him!
to have given him one of your set downs
I quite detest the man
No thanks to his gallantry for that
you are a great deal too apt to like people
I would wish not to be hasty
to be hasty in censuring any one
blind to the follies and nonsense of others
But to be candid without ostentation
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ostentation
converse
convinced
calculated
pliancy
unassailed
deficient
meanly
by trade
tenant
preside
of age
endeared to
ductility
reliance
understanding
haughty
offence
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excessive display, pretentiousness
talk, discuss
persuaded
planned, brought about deliberately
flexibility, easily influenced, yielding
unclouded, not prejudiced by
lacking, defective
badly
in business
one who rents a house or building
occupy a placed of authority
at a mature age
feel affection for, admired
easily influenced, easily led
confidence, dependence
intelligence, comprehension
intentionally and disdainfully proud
hurt displeasure; act of offending people
commendation
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recommendation, praise
But to be candid without ostentation
when you converse with them
but was not convinced
had not been calculated to please
less pliancy of temper
judgment too unassailed by any attention to herself
not deficient in good humour
think well of themselves, and meanly of others
their own had been acquired by trade
established only as a tenant
unwilling to preside at his table
Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years
Bingley was endeared to Darcy
ductility of his temper
strength of Darcy's regard Bingley had the firmest reliance
In understanding Darcy was the superior.
He was at the same time haughty, reserved
Darcy was continually giving offence
felt authorised by such commendation to think of her as
he chose
Chapter Three
1.
How does Darcy's behavior (and others' views of it) differ from Bingley's at the Meryton assembly?
2.
How does Darcy offend Elizabeth, and how does she react? Is she hurt by the comment?
Chapter Four
3.
What character traits do Jane and Bingley share?
4.
What first impressions do Elizabeth and Darcy have of each other, and why might these first impressions prevent them
from going beyond that judgment?
5.
What is Elizabeth's judgment of Bingley's sisters?
Chapters 5-6
NEW CHARACTERS
Charlotte Lucas
Elizabeth's close friend, intelligent, but plain looking; has a practical outlook on life, love, and marriage.
Sir William Lucas
word
intimate
disgust
unshackled
elated
civil
render
supercilious
former
misfortune
mortified
piqued
solidity
prone
complacency
vanity
synonymously
good will
Charlotte's father, trying to act the part of a member of the upper class and fashionable society, but is
crude and loud, and speaks too frankly; later, he says something in public that causes a big problem for
others.
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definition
having a close relationship
great hatred
freed, as if from shackles
joyful
polite
cause to become
haughty, disdainful
the first of two mentioned
bad fortune, ill luck
cause shame or humiliation
pride oneself
condition of being solid or sound
tending
contentment, satisfaction
excessive pride in oneself
expressing similar meaning
good intentions
context
with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate
It had given him a disgust to his business
unshackled by business
For though elated by his rank
being civil to all the world
it did not render him supercilious
it did not render him supercilious
brought the former to Longbourn to hear
it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him
if he had not mortified mine
who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections
the solidity of her reflections
particularly prone to it
who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency
Vanity and pride are different things
the words are often used synonymously
the good will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley
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intolerable
probability
evident
composure
impertinent
impose
consolation
simpleton
partial
endeavour
conceal
leisure
regard
ascertain
parties
felicity
defects
sound
scarcely
rendered
symmetry
asserting
satirical
defied
persevering
gravely
capital
entreaties
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pedantic
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indignation
exclusion
engrossed
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refinements
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polished
savage
adept
inconsiderable
discomposure
propriety
persuasion
excel
inducement
complaisance
archly
reverie
insipidity
strictures
meditating
credit
inspiring
intrepidity
matrimony
indifference
wit
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unbearable
likelihood
obvious, easily see understood
tranquility of mind, calmness
ill-mannered people who meddle
force or pass off on others
comfort
fool, silly or stupid person
having a particularly liking for
try, attempt
hide
free time, freedom from duty
respect, affection, esteem
discover, make certain
person, selected group
happiness
imperfections, faults
with firm basis, free from defect
almost not, hardly
shown, represented
harmonious balance
stating, declaring
characterized by irony
challenged, confronted
persisting
seriously
first rate, excellent
pleas, requests
showing narrow concern for book learning
and formal rules
anger aroused by something unjust
rejection
occupied, absorbed
improvements, fineness of
thought/expression
refined, cultured
wild, uncivilized person
expert, highly-skilled person
trivial
state of disorder, absence of calm
appropriateness, quality of being proper
act of convincing
be superior, to beyond a limit or standard
motive
wish to please
mischievously
daydreaming
dullness, lack of excitement
limits, restrictions
reflecting, pondering
source of honor or distinction
bringing about, arousing, stimulating
courage, fearlessness
marriage
lack of concern or interest
verbal humor, repartee
the mother was found to be intolerable
arising in all probability from the influence of
It was generally evident whenever they met
a composure of temper
guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent
to be able to impose on the public
be but poor consolation to believe the world
he must be a simpleton indeed not to discover
But if a woman is partial to a man
does not endeavour to conceal it
does not endeavour to conceal it
there will be leisure for falling in love
the degree of her own regard
enabled them to ascertain that they both like...
dispositions of the parties are ever so well known
advance their felicity in the least
as little as possible of the defects of the person
it is not sound
had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty
find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent
failure of perfect symmetry in her form
his asserting that her manners were not
He has a very satirical eye
Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention
On Miss Lucas's persevering...she added...
And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy...
though by no means capital
before she could reply to the entreaties of...
a pedantic air and a conceited manner
silent indignation
to the exclusion of all conversation
was too much engrossed by his own thoughts
the finest refinements of polished societies
the finest refinements of polished societies
Every savage can dance.
you are an adept in the science, Mr. Darcy
received no inconsiderable pleasure from...
said with some discomposure to Sir William
Mr. Darcy with grave propriety requested to be
by his attempt at persuasion
You excel so much in the dance
considering the inducement
we cannot wonder at his complaisance
Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away.
I can guess the subject of your reverie.
The insipidity and yet the noise
What would I give to hear your strictures on them!
meditating on the very great pleasure...
what lady had the credit of inspiring
the credit of inspiring such reflections
Mr. Darcy replied with great intrepidity.
from love to matrimony in a moment
His listened to her with perfect indifference
her wit flowed long
QUESTIONS
Chapter Five
1.
What is Charlotte's justification for Darcy's behavior, and what does it show about her?
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Chapter Six
2.
What is Charlotte's view of how a woman should behave around a man she's interested in? What is her view of marriage?
3.
What are hints of Darcy's changing feelings toward Elizabeth?
Chapters 7-9
NEW CHARACTERS
Mrs. Phillips
Mrs. Bennet's sister; shares some of her foolish qualities, lives in Meryton.
Colonel Forester
Head of the military regiment stationed at Meryton; his wife becomes friends with Lydia.
Captain Carter
One of the soldiers stationed at Meryton with whom Kitty and Lydia are infatuated.
Mr. Jones
A local apothecary.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT
entailment: The legal limitation of the inheritance of landed estate to a specific line of heirs. Usually this meant the male heir, as in
the case of the Bennet estate in Longbourn (which is to be inherited by the closest male heir, Mr. Collins). Since the Bennets
only have daughters, their estate cannot be left to them. This law (entail) may have been established generations earlier
(something Mrs. Bennet can't understand) and can be broken by the heir when he comes of age (reaches adulthood).
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel. A strange spelling on page 33: ankles (for ankles).
word
deficiency
thither
vacant
contrived
productive
animation
nay
footman
tête-à- tête
receipt
scheme
chaise
extort
prognostics
uneasy
intermission
contrivance
imputed
fit
pursuit
trifling
resolution
benevolence
exertion
proportion
repaired
lodgings
stiles
contempt
occasion
justifying
latter
enquiries
equal to
solicitude
acutely
convert
dispatched
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definition
lacking
over there
empty
devised, planned
producing a result
liveliness
no
servant
private talk
act of receiving
plan
light, open carriage
draw out with difficulty
predictions
lacking comfort
without pause
clever plan
caused by
attack
chase
simple, trivial
determination to do
kindness, generosity
effort
part related to the whole
went
temporary home
steps for crossing a fence
hatred
cause
demonstrating a good reason for
the second of two mentioned
questions
having the qualities necessary
quality of being concerned, attentive
sharply, intensely
change
sent to
context
could but ill supply the deficiency of his
usually tempted thither 3 or 4 times a week
their minds were more vacant than their sisters'
they always contrived to learn some
Their visits...were now productive
the mention of which gave animation to their mother
I shall not say nay to him
by the entrance of the footman with a note
a whole day's tête-à- tête between two women
Come as soon as you can on the receipt of this.
That would be a good scheme
the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise
She did at last extort from her father
with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day
Her sisters were uneasy for her
continued the whole evening without intermission
all the felicity of her contrivance
is to be imputed to my getting wet
a dangerous fit of illness
it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley
People do not die of little trifling colds.
She declared her resolution.
I admire the activity of your benevolence
exertion should always be in proportion to
should always be in proportion to what is required
repaired to the lodgings
the lodgings of one of the officers' wives
jumping over stiles
they held her in contempt for it
the occasion's justifying her coming
justifying her coming so far alone
The latter was thinking only of his breakfast.
Her enquiries after her sister
She was not equal, however, to much
solicitude they shewed for Jane
her head ached acutely
Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer
a servant was dispatched
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acquaint
intruder
indolent
pronounced
nonsensical
scampering
petticoat
inclined
exhibition
decorum
well settled
jot
materially
assent
indulged
mirth
vulgar
renewal
summoned
quit her
astonishment
singular
censure
fetch
afforded
idle
accomplished
piano-forte
exquisite
extent
air
substantial
severe
capacity
implied
paltry
device
condescend
employ
captivation
affinity
cunning
despicable
eminent
comply
miserable
wretchedness
duets
chief
amendment
restoration
advisable
trespass
profuse
vast
lease
intricate
estimable
confined
unvarying
alter
offended
delicate
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make familiar, inform
one who violate others' privacy
lazy
declared
foolish, absurd
run hurriedly
under skirt
tending, likely
display
proper manners
well established in marriage
bit
truly
agreement
given in to
humor, pleasure
ill-bred, common, indecent
rebirth, refreshing
sent for, requested to appear
leave her
surprise
peculiar, eccentric
condemnation, criticism
get, obtain
provided
lazy, without work
having many talents
piano
most excellent
range, degree
personal bearing, manner
of worth, valuable
hard, critical
ability
suggested
trifling, worthless
scheme
do something beneath one's dignity
use
state of fascinating, charming someone
resemblance, connection
crafty deception
worthy of hatred
well regarded, famous
act by another's request or wish
uncomfortable, unhappy
misery, unpleasantness
songs sung by two people
most of, the largest part of
improvement
return
prudent, worthy of being suggested
take advantage of another's kindness
plentiful, extravagant
great, enormous amount
rental agreement, contract
complex
admirable
small
without change
change
felt displeasure
sensitive, considerate
to acquaint the family with her stay
feeling herself so much an intruder
he was an indolent man
Her manners were pronounced to be very bad
Very nonsensical to come at all
Why must she be scampering about the country
Yes, and her petticoat
I am inclined to think that you would not wish
make such an exhibition
a most country town indifference to decorum
I wish with all my heart she were well settled
not make them one jot less agreeable
But is must very materially lessen their chance
their hearty assent
indulged their mirth for some time
indulged their mirth for some time
their dear friend's vulgar relations
With a renewal of tenderness
sat with her till summoned to coffee
Elizabeth would not quit her at all
looked at her with astonishment
That is rather singular
I deserve neither such praise nor such censure
offered to fetch her others
all that his library afforded
but I am an idle fellow
so extremely accomplished for her age
Her performance on the piano-forte is exquisite.
Her performance on the piano-forte is exquisite.
the common extent of accomplishments
something in her air and manner of walking
something more substantial
Are you so severe upon your own sex
I never saw such capacity
the injustice of her implied doubt
it is a paltry device
it is a paltry device
sometimes condescend to employ for captivation
sometimes condescend to employ for captivation
sometimes condescend to employ for captivation
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
the most eminent physicians
unwilling to comply with
they were miserable
They solaced their wretchedness
by duets after supper
Elizabeth passed the chief of the night
In spite of this amendment
her restoration to health
think it all advisable
We must trespass a little longer on your kindness
Mrs. Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgement
suffers a vast deal
you have but a short lease
a deep, intricate character
more or less estimable
a very confined and unvarying society
a very confined and unvarying society
people themselves alter so much
offended by his manner of mentioning
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genteel
mince
pity
particular
efficacy
stout
ensued
tremble
lest
tax
assurance
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well mannered
finely chopped meat
shame
special
effectiveness
substantial, powerful
followed
shiver, shake, shiver
for fear that
make demands on, burden
self-confidence, boldness
so genteel and so easy
mince pies
It is a pity they are not handsome
She is our particular friend
first discovered the efficacy of poetry
Of a fine, stout, healthy love
general pause which ensued
made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother
made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother
the youngest should tax Mr. Bingley with
had increased into assurance
QUESTIONS
Chapter Seven
1. Does Mrs. Bennet's scheme work for Jane? How does it affect Elizabeth?
Chapter Eight
2. What effect does Caroline Bingley want her critical comments of Elizabeth to have on Darcy? Is Miss Bingley successful
or not?
Chapter Nine
3. How is Elizabeth embarrassed by her family at Netherfield Park?
Guide for Chapters 10-13
NEW CHARACTERS
Hill
Mr. Collins
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
The Bennet family cook and maid.
Mr. Bennet's cousin, heir to the Longbourn estate, a clergyman; he is pompous, pretentious, always
flattering and seeking the approval of social superiors. Collins is one of Austen's great comic
creations, used to attack social pretension and conventional ideas about marriage.
Darcy's aunt and Mr. Collins' patron (he is the clergyman who lives next to her estate, Rosings
Park); she is bossy and meddling; she is very concerned with social appearances and status. Austen
also uses her character to make fun of society.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel.
word
ch.pg definition
invalid
10.46 sick person
perpetual
10.46 constant
odious
10.46 exciting hatred
lot
10.46 fate
defer
10.47 postpone, delay
determine
10.47 decide, settle
humility
10.47 lack of pride, state of being humble
disarm
10.47 make harmless
reproof
10.47 criticism
boast
10.47 show of excessive pride, brag
quitting
10.48 leaving
panegyric
10.48 elaborate praise, public compliment
laudable
10.48 praise-worthy
precipitance
10.48 quality of being impulsive or abrupt
celerity
10.48 speed
rashness
10.48 unthinking quickness
atoned
10.48 make up for
obstinacy
10.48 stubbornness
adhering
10.48 sticking
yield
10.49 give in
persuasion
10.49 act of persuading
conviction
10.49 strong belief
appertain
10.49 belong as a part of
aweful
10.49 inspiring awe, awesome, great
expostulation
10.49 strong demand
disputes
10.50 debate, controversy
context
spent some hours...with the invalid
The perpetual commendations of the lady
How odious I should think them!
they fall to my lot instead of to yours
give me leave to defer your raptures
it is not for me to determine
Your humility...must disarm reproof.
Your humility...must disarm reproof.
Your humility...must disarm reproof.
sometimes an indirect boast
if you every resolved on quitting Netherfield
meant it to be a sort of panegyric
what is there so very laudable
in a precipitance which must leave
gone with such celerity
consider the rashness of your
atoned for by your obstinacy
atoned for by your obstinacy
in adhering to it
To yield readily
to the persuasion of a friend
To yield without conviction
which is to appertain to this request
I do not know a more aweful object
in an expostulation with her brother
too much like disputes
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alacrity
reprehensible
approbation
despising
overthrowing
premeditated
dare
affront
bewitched
compass
cure
abominably
avenue
gaily
rambled
considerable
anecdote
diffuseness
salutation
petition
quest
insufferably
tedious
order of the day
inflexibly
studious
attitude
novelty
confidence
plague
uncommon
ridiculous
whims
inconsistencies
regulation
pretension
vouch
puffed about
implacable
shade
propensity
wilfully
propitious
postscript
spare
laconic
flogged
roused
rail
bitterly
iniquitous
filial
scruples
subsisting
breach
variance
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bounty
beneficence
rectory
parish
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deserving criticism, blameworthy
praise
hating
overturning, ruining
planned in advance
have the courage for the challenge
insult
fascinated, enchanted
achieve, obtain
heal
unpleasantly, terribly
road lined with trees
happily
wandered
many, great
verbal tale, story
wordiness
greeting
request, plea
search
unbearably, intolerably
boring
plan, condition
stubbornly
interested in study
position of the body, state of mind
newness
secrecy, friendship
harass, annoy
rare
absurd, laughable
impulse, passing fancy
something not consistent
control
claim
verify
blown about
unyielding, unchanging
flaw, fault
inclination, tendency
purposely
favorable, gracious
addition to a letter, at the end
do without
having few words, concise, terse
beaten
aroused, caused
complain
with resentment
wicked
having to do with a son's duties
ethics, principles
existing
division, break up
being different, varying
ceremony in which a person is
admitted into the church
financial support
plentiful gifts
acts of charity or kindness
home of parish minister
church
moved with alacrity
more wrong and reprehensible
too little to care for his approbation
pleasure of despising my taste
delight in overthrowing
their premeditated contempt
if you dare
expected to affront him
never been so bewitched by any woman
if you can compass it
do cure the younger girls
You used us abominably ill
go into the avenue
She then ran gaily off
as she rambled about
Their powers of conversation were considerable.
relate an anecdote with humour
but diffuseness and warmth remained
remained for Bingley's salutation
found even his open petition rejected
in quest of some amusement
something insufferably tedious in the usual
something insufferably tedious in the usual
made the order of the day
Darcy...was still inflexibly studious
Darcy...was still inflexibly studious
sitting so long in one's attitude
awake to the novelty of attention
in each other's confidence
We can all plague and punish one another
That is an uncommon advantage
may be rendered ridiculous by a person
whims and inconsistencies do divert me
whims and inconsistencies do divert me
always under good regulation
I have made no such pretension.
My temper I dare not vouch for.
My feelings are not puffed about
Implacable resentment is a shade in a
resentment is a shade in a character
a propensity to hate every body
And your is wilfully to misunderstand them
Her answer...was not propitious
in her postscript it was added that
she could spare them very well
though very laconic in his expressions
a private had been flogged
This roused a general astonishment
she continued to rail bitterly
she continued to rail bitterly
a most iniquitous affair
had some filial scruples
had some filial scruples
disagreement subsisting between yourself
heal the breach
pleased him to be at variance
having received ordination at Easter
distinguished by the patronage of
whose bounty and beneficence has
whose bounty and beneficence has
the valuable rectory of this parish
the valuable rectory of this parish
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demean
conscientious
indulgent
atonement
deference
pompous
servility
punctual
stately
fame
destitute
allude
precipitate
asperity
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thoughtful
giving in to someone's desires
act of making up for an offence
courteous respect
haughty
acting like a servant, acting lowly
exactly on time
dignified, majestic
reputation
poor, impoverished
refer to
acting hastily
ill temperedness, irritability
endeavour to demean myself
a most conscientious and polite young man
should be so indulgent as to let him
make us the atonement he thinks our due
his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine
something very pompous in his stile
a mixture of servility and self-importance
Mr. Collins was punctual to his time
His air was grave and stately
fame had fallen short of the truth
for else they will be destitute enough
You allude perhaps to the entail
I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate
assured him with some asperity
QUESTIONS
Chapter Ten
1. What do the conversations reveal about each character (Miss Bingley, Darcy, Bingley, Elizabeth)?
Chapter Eleven
2. In the last two chapters, what has caused Darcy's affection for Elizabeth to deepen?
Chapter Twelve
3. Why does Darcy ignore Elizabeth during her and Jane's last day at Netherfield?
Chapter Thirteen
4. What is humorous about Mr. Collins' character and actions at Longbourn?
Chapters 14-16
NEW CHARACTERS
Denny
An officer in the Meryton regiment, object of Lydia's affection and friend of Wickham's.
Wickham
An officer who has a past connection with Darcy: the two men grew up together at Pemberley. Wickham says a lot
of bad things about Darcy, influencing Elizabeth's opinion of Darcy.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel. There is something odd on page 72: "―shire," which was a
convention at the time so an author didn't have to be geographically specific; there is also an odd spelling: crouded (for crowded).
word
ch.pg definition
context
eloquent
14.65 persuasive, graceful, and fluent in speaking
appeared eloquent in her praise
elevated
14.65 raised to a higher level
The subject elevated him to
solemnity
14.65 seriousness
more than the usual solemnity of manner
aspect
14.65 countenance, look
with a most important aspect
affability
14.65 friendliness, gentleness
such affability and condescension
discourses
14.65 speeches
approve of both the discourses
vouchsafed
14.65 condescend to give something
had even vouchsafed to suggest some
abode
14.66 home
my humble abode
widow
14.66 woman whose husband has died
she was a widow
constitution
14.66 physical condition
of a sickly constitution
deprived
14.66 take away from, deprive
has deprived the British court
ornament
14.66 person who is a source of pride or honor
of its brightest ornament
duchess
14.66 wife of a duke; aristocrat
born to be a duchess
dose
14.67 portion (usually of medicine)
the dose had been enough
monotonous
14.67 dull, without variation
with very monotonous solemnity
stamp
14.67 nature or quality
books of a serious stamp
importune
14.67 annoy, vex
no longer importune my young cousin
antagonist
14.67 game partner, enemy
as his antagonist at backgammon
backgammon
14.67 board game
as his antagonist at backgammon
miserly
15.68 greedy
an illiterate and miserly father
subjection
15.69 condition of being under someone's power
The subjection in which his father had
prosperity
15.69 wealth
early and unexpected prosperity
veneration
15.69 great respect
his veneration for her as his patroness
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reconciliation
eligibility
parsonage
avowal
amid
treasured up
good graces
cessation
exceedingly
bonnet
recal
pretence
entreated
corps
address
readiness
unassuming
corroborated
long
pressing
contemplation
mutual
unwearying
convey
proprietor
digressions
retail
stuffy
threadbare
at intervals
whist
impartial
deserts
proclaim
scandalous
verily
prospect
procured
bequeathed
godfather
amply
disregarded
redress
bequest
imprudence
induced
malicious
just
superintendance
wonderful
degenerate
conversible
liberal-minded
dictatorial
insolent
enumerating
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settling of a dispute
condition of being qualified or worthy
home of a clergyman
acknowledgement, admission
surrounded by, in the middle of
valued highly, saved for future use
state of being in someone's favor
act of ceasing, halting
very much
woman's hat held in place with a ribbon
bring back, bring back to awareness
act of pretending
asked for
group of soldiers
way of speaking
willingness, promptness
humble, modest
confirmed, supported
desire, want
demanding, urgent
act of thinking
possessed in common
not tiring, without pause
give, pass on
owner
comments that are off the point
tell and retell
dull, formal
overused, hackneyed, trite
at times, stages, from time to time
card game
without judgment
something deserving reward or punishment
say or state publicly
shocking, causing scandal
truly
thought, possibility
brought about, provided
left to someone in a will
man who sponsors a child at baptism
with a generous amount
not looked at, dismissed from consideration
amends, remedy, correction
something left to someone in a will
quality of being unwise or indiscreet
caused
evil
honorable and fair
direction, duty of taking care of
astonishing, causing wonder
deteriorate, decline
having conversational abilities
open-minded
acting like a dictator, an authoritative ruler
rude, arrogant, insulting
counting off, naming one by one
pride and obsequiousness
seeking a reconciliation
full of eligibility and suitableness
beginning with his parsonage-house
to the avowal of his hopes
amid very complaisant smiles
Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint
high in her good graces
with little cessation
discomposed Mr. Bennet exceedingly
a very smart bonnet indeed
could recal them
under the pretence of wanting something
entreated permission to introduce
accepted a commission in their corps
very pleasing address
a happy readiness of conversation
perfectly correct and unassuming
Mr. Darcy corroborated it with a bow
it was impossible not to long to know
Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties
but her contemplation of one stranger
they parted in mutual good spirits
assured with unwearying civility
did not at first convey much gratification
who was its proprietor
with occasional digressions
resolving to retail it all among her
broad-faced stuffy uncle Philips
the commonest, dullest, most threadbare
he had still at intervals a kind listener
by sitting down to whist
impossible for me to be impartial
be estimated beyond their deserts
what I might proclaim to all the world
his behaviour to myself has been scandalous
I verily believe I could forgive himj
It was the prospect of constant society
Meryton has procured them
the late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me
He was my godfather
provide for me amply
How could his well be disregarded?
seek legal redress
the terms of the bequest
forfeited all claim to it by...imprudence
what can have induced him to behave
descending to such malicious revenge
I can hardly be just to him
to my father's active superintendance
It is wonderful
to degenerate from the popular qualities
He can be a conversible companion
he is liberal-minded
her manners are dictatorial and insolent
her manners are dictatorial and insolent
enumerating all the dishes at supper
QUESTIONS
Chapter Fourteen
1. How does Mr. Bennet make fun of Mr. Collins, and how does Collins show himself to be both pompous and servile?
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Chapter Fifteen
2. After he finds out that Jane may be soon engaged to another gentleman, Collins turns his attentions to Elizabeth. What
does this show about him?
3.
On the street in Meryton, what does Elizabeth notice when Darcy and Wickham meet?
Chapter Sixteen
4. What does Wickham say that Darcy has done to him?
5.
How does Elizabeth react to this news? What does this show about her?
Chapters 17-18
IMPORTANT CONCEPT
Social status and social rules: On pages 95-96 when Mr. Collins decides to introduce himself to Darcy, he commits a serious social
error. Because of his self-importance and arrogance, Mr. Collins believes that through his association with his patron Lady
Catherine de Bourgh, he has risen to a higher social level. It was improper in the more formal early 19 th century English
society for someone of a lower rank to just walk up to a member of the upper class and introduce himself―rank and wealth
were very important in social relations. Elizabeth is extremely aware of these social conventions, and is continually being
embarrassed by her family's lack of propriety.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they appear in the novel. There are some odd spellings: exstasy (for ecstasy); stopt
(for stopped).
word
ch.pg definition
context
veracity
17.84
truth
question the veracity of a young man
alienated
17.84
set them apart from others
circumstances which have alienated them
ceremony
17.85
formality
every thing mentioned without ceremony
distressing
17.85
upsetting
it is distressing
ceremonious
17.85
formal
instead of a ceremonious card
ball
17.86
dance
a ball was, at any rate, a ball
profess
17.86
declare, claim
I profess myself one of those who
recreation
17.86
fun, leisure
who consider intervals of recreation
rebuke
17.86
criticism, reprimand
dreading a rebuke either from the Archbishop
tendency
17.86
inclination
young man of character can have any evil tendency
soliciting
17.86
asking for
I take this opportunity of soliciting yours, Miss Elizabeth
taken in
17.86
tricked, deceived
Elizabeth felt herself completely taken in.
perforce
17.86
by necessity
her own was per force delayed a little
quadrille
17.86
card game
assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings
vivacity
17.86
liveliness, spirit
a compliment on her wit and vivacity
pitiable
17.87
arousing pity or compassion
would have been in a pitiable state at this time
by proxy
17.87
with the help of someone else
the very shoe-roses for Netherfield were got by proxy
trial
17.87
test, challenge
Even Elizabeth might have found some trial of her patience
in vain
18.88
without success
looked in vain for Mr. Wickham
surmount
18.89
overcome, conquer
...ill humour, which she could not wholly surmount
transition
18.89
switch or change
unable to make a voluntary transition to
presence of mind 18.89
poise, self-control
fret over her own want of presence of mind
console
18.89
comfort, make feel better
Charlotte tried to console her.
oblige
18.90
force, constrain
the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk
taciturn
18.90
uncommunicative, laconic
an unsocial, taciturn disposition
posterity
18.90
future generations
handed down to posterity
eclat
18.90
brilliance of performance
with all the eclat of a proverb
in the affirmative 18.90
yes, asserting yes
She answered in the affirmative
hauteur
18.90
arrogance
A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features
constrained
18.91
restrained
At length Darcy spoke, and in a constrained manner
desirous
18.91
wanting to, desiring
seemed desirous of changing the subject
first circles
18.91
highest level, most talented
you belong to the first circles
upbraiding
18.91
criticizing sharply
whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me
forcibly
18.91
with force
seemed to strike him forcibly
unappeasable
18.92
unable to be calmed, fixed
your resentment once created was unappeasable
incumbent
18.92
obligatory
It is particularly incumbent on those who never
merely
18.92
just; only
Merely to the illustration of your character
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gravity
get on
accosted
implicit
sneer
interference
malice
pardon
regard
exultation
18.92
18.92
18.93
18.93
18.93
18.93
18.93
18.94
18.94
18.95
dissuade
18.95
scope
laity
dictates
discernment
perverseness
self-gratulation
consign
triumphantly
revive
tranquillity
in agonies
impenetrably
applied to
compatible
conciliatory
preferment
repulsed
languor
whither
eclipsed
18.95
18.95
18.96
18.96
18.97
18.97
18.97
18.97
18.98
18.98
18.98
18.98
18.98
18.99
18.99
18.99
18.100
18.100
18.101
18.101
seriousness
understand
approached first
implied, suggested
scornful facial expression
act of interfering, intruding
desire to harm others
forgiveness
respect
joy, rejoicing
convince someone not to do
something
range
people not in the clergy
orders, commands
keenness of perception
something which is not right or good
self-congratulation
give over to the care of another
victoriously
come back to life, regain good spirits
calmness, peace
in agony, in pain
strongly, unable to be penetrated
asked for help
agreeable, harmonious
pleasant, friendly
advancement
rejected by denial or rudeness
stillness, laziness
where
surpassed, outshone
endeavouring to shake off her gravity
I do not get on at all.
with an expression of civil disdain thus accosted her
not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions
turning away with a sneer
Excuse my interference.―It was kindly meant.
the malice of Mr. Darcy
you may be sure of my pardon
has deserved to lose Mr. Darcy's regard
told her with great exultation
Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme
all matters within the scope of your understanding
amongst the laity
follow the dictates of my conscience
so well convinced of Lady Catherine's discernment
a most unlucky perverseness which placed them
were the first points of self-gradulation
to be able to consign her single daughters to the care
triumphantly believing there was no chance of it
Elizabeth now began to revive.
But not long was the interval of tranquillity
Elizabeth was in agonies.
impenetrably grave
Others of the party were now applied to.
perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman
attentive and conciliatory manners towards every body
to whom he owes his preferment
They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation
threw a languor over the whole party
after his return to London, whither he was obliged to go
the worth of each was eclipsed by Mr. Bingley and Netherfield
QUESTIONS
Chapter Seventeen
1. When Elizabeth asks for Jane's opinion of the Wickham/Darcy conflict, what is Jane's assessment?
2.
When Elizabeth realizes that Mr. Collins has his sights set on her, what does she decide to do?
Chapter Eighteen
3. How does Elizabeth and Darcy's dance together develop and/or hinder their relationship?
4.
During the evening at Netherfield, how does Elizabeth's family (including Mr. Collins) embarrass her?
Chapters 19-23
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
ch.pg definition
context
diffidence
19.102 state of hesitancy, timidity
having no feelings of diffidence
hastening
19.102 quickly moving away
she was hastening away
injunction
19.102 command, order
Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction
incessant
19.103 continual, constant
tried to conceal by incessant employment
diversion
19.103 something that distracts
divided between distress and diversion
modesty
19.103 propriety in speech
your modesty...rather adds to your other perfections
disservice
19.103 harmful action, injury
far from doing you any disservice
purport
19.103 purpose
You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse
dissemble
19.103 pretend
your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble
tempered
19.104 moderated, adjusted
when tempered with the silence and respect
inevitably
19.104 unavoidably
and respect which her rank will inevitably excite
excite
19.104 produce, arouse
respect which her rank will inevitably excite
reproach
19.104 criticism
no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips
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altar
ere
suit
hitherto
give me leave
manifold
uniformly
sanctioned
express
decisive
affectation
coquetry
dawdled
vestibule
felicitations
relate
stedfastly
bashful
headstrong
persists
liable
affair
spared by
Aye
effusion
sooth
projected
resignation
inevitable
preferment
interpose
dismission
peevish
dejection
resentful
assiduous
morrow
abatement
lament
self-imposed
forbearance
bestowed
dwelling
19.105
19.105
19.105
19.106
19.106
19.106
19.106
19.106
19.106
19.107
19.107
19.107
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.108
20.109
20.110
20.111
20.111
20.111
20.111
20.112
20.112
20.112
20.112
20.112
20.112
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.113
21.114
21.114
21.114
front of the church
before
proposal
until this time
allow
multiple
consistently
authorized
particular
conclusive
display, manner
flirtation
wasted time
entryway, foyer
congratulations
tell, explain
constantly, firmly
shy
stubborn
hold firmly to a purpose
tending to have
matter, incident
saved by
yes
unrestrained outpouring
relieve from worry, calm
extended, thrown out
act of giving up
unable to avoid
promotion
insert a remark
dismissal
ill-tempered, quarrelsome
state of being depressed
feeling ill will
diligent, persistent
tomorrow
easing
mourn, regret
voluntarily endured
tolerance, patience
given to
focusing
intercourse
beaux
reserves
intermarriage
ingenuity
merit
fret
deliberation
disobliging
utmost
desponding
bewailed
slyness
irksome
preservative
prosperous
avail
concurrence
bounds
21.114
21.115
21.115
21.115
21.117
21.117
21.117
21.117
21.117
21.117
21.118
21.118
22.119
22.120
22.120
22.121
22.121
22.121
22.122
communication between people
boyfriends, suitors
restraint
marriage between families
cleverness
value
worry
act of deciding
not pleasing
most, highest
becoming disheartened
cried out
cleverness
annoying
something preserved
thriving, favorable
make use of
agreement
limits
lead you to the altar ere long
lead you to the altar ere long
said as much to encourage my suit
If what I have hitherto said
You must give me leave to flatter myself
in spite of your manifold attractions
You are uniformly charming!
when sanctioned by the express authority of
when sanctioned by the express authority of
in such a manner as must be decisive
the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female
the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female
having dawdled about in the vestibule
having dawdled about in the vestibule
returned these felicitations with equal pleasure
proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview
his cousin had stedfastly given him
would naturally flow from her bashful modesty
She is a very headstrong foolish girl
If therefore she actually persists in rejecting
if liable to such defects of temper
her husband regarded the affair as she wished
Charlotte's reply was spared by the entrance
Aye, there she comes
listened in silence to this effusion
any attempt to reason with or sooth her
began the projected conversation
Resignation to inevitable evils
Resignation to inevitable evils
as fortunately as I have been in early preferment
requesting you to interpose your authority
having accepted by dismission from your daughter's lips
from some peevish allusion of her mother
not by embarrassment or dejection
resentful silence
the assiduous attentions which he had been so sensible of
The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's
The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's
to lament over his absence from the Netherfield ball
his absence had been self-imposed
approved of his forbearance
which they civilly bestowed on each other
saw her dwelling intently
returns of the delightful intercourse we have known
that your beaux will be so numerous
I have no reserves with you.
when there has been one intermarriage
there is certainly some ingenuity
sensible of your merit
fret no longer
if upon mature deliberation
the misery of disobliging his two sisters
treated with the utmost contempt
Jane's temper was not desponding
she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky
with admirable slyness
his society was irksome
must be their pleasantest preservative from want
longing to publish his prosperous love
I shall avail myself of it
without her ladyship's concurrence
the bounds of decorum
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pang
incredulous
boisterously
courtier
vent
inferences
deduced
barbarously
dwelt
appease
improbable
retort
rectitude
rapturous
incensed
successor
abhorrence
22.123
23.124
23.124
23.124
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.125
23.126
23.126
23.127
23.127
sudden spasm of pain
not believing
noisily
one who seeks favor
opening giving escape
suggestions
reach a conclusion
uncivilly, unfairly
focused, concentrated
satisfy, calm
not possible
reply quickly
quality of being morally correct
filled with great joy
angered
one who takes over for another
hatred
And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself
an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous
boisterously exclaimed
the complaisance of a courtier
her feelings found a rapid vent
Two inferences...were plainly deduced from the whole
Two inferences...were plainly deduced from the whole
she herself had been barbarously used by them all
two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day
Nothing could console and nothing appease her
to consider it improbable
triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet
of whose rectitude and delicacy
with many rapturous expressions
which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet
As her successor in that house
she regarded her with jealous abhorrence
QUESTIONS
Chapter Nineteen—Twenty
1. What makes Mr. Collins' proposal funny?
Chapter Twenty-one—Twenty-two
2. How is Elizabeth contrasted with Jane in chapter 21?
3.
What is Elizabeth's reaction to Charlotte's engagement and what does her reaction show about her?
Chapter Twenty-three
4. Besides the prospect of Charlotte's marriage, what else is causing the Bennet family anxiety?
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IB Literature—Pfeiffer
Pride and Prejudice (1813): Reading Guide for Volume 2 (Chapters 24-42)
Chapters 24-26
NEW CHARACTERS
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner
Elizabeth's uncle and aunt (Mr. Gardiner is Mrs. Bennet's and Mrs. Philips' brother); Mr. Gardiner is "in
trade," a businessman in London. Even though they live in what Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley would
consider an unfashionable part of London, the Gardiners are quite respectable and have better
manners than the upper-class characters we have met. Mrs. Gardiner is especially close to her nieces
Elizabeth and Jane. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner play key roles in the novel.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
inmate
designing
inclinations
sport
unavailing
repine
encroaching
integrity
jilt
material
dispelling
canvassed
candour
artful
thwarted
accident
hackneyed
acquiescence
ablution
combated
fancy
forfeit
duplicity
duped
relinquish
effectual
ch.pg
24.131
24.131
24.131
24.131
24.132
24.132
24.132
24.133
24.135
24.135
24.135
24.135
24.136
25.138
25.138
25.138
25.138
25.139
25.139
25.140
26.142
26.143
26.146
26.146
26.147
26.147
defection
26.147
definition
resident in a dwelling
scheming, planning
tendencies, desires
play, joke with
useless, unsuccessful
be discontented, complain
intruding
state of holding to standards
deceive or drop a lover
important, relevant
taking away
discussed
frankness, straightforwardness
crafty, deceiving
prevented from succeeding
unexpected events
overused
passive agreement
cleansing as part of a religious rite
opposed, resisted
imagination, inclination, liking
give up
deception
deceived
give up
fully adequate
leaving a connection or relationship
without consent or permission
context
being an inmate of Mr. Darcy's house
slave of his designing friends
the caprice of their inclinations
been allowed to sport with it
must be unavailing
But I will not repine
my encroaching on your privilege of
meaning of principle and integrity
would jilt you creditably
was of material service in dispelling
material service in dispelling the gloom
acknowledged and publicly canvassed
mild and steady candour
very artful people indeed
to be thwarted so in my own family
when accident separates them
the expression...is so hackneyed
her sister's ready acquiescence
a month's ablution enough to cleanse
successfully combated by
must not let your fancy run away with you
I should be miserable to forfeit it
strong appearance of duplicity
would no longer be duped
a few struggles to relinquish her
My watchfulness has been effectual
take his defection much more to heart
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Twenty-four
1. Why and how does the mood of the story now change?
2.
What are the strong opinions Elizabeth expresses in this chapter?
Chapter Twenty-five
3. What is the connection between Mrs. Gardiner and Wickham?
Chapter Twenty-six
4.
How does Austen reveal the closeness between Mrs. Gardiner and Elizabeth?
5.
Two romantic plot lines seem to be resolved in these chapters: Jane's chances with Bingley, and Elizabeth's chances with
Wickham. How do different members of the Bennet family react and respond
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Chapters 27-30
NEW CHARACTERS
Mrs. Jenkinson
Miss de Bourgh's governess, her constant companion.
Miss de Bourgh
Lady Catherine de Bourgh's daughter, a sickly young woman.
Colonel Fitzwilliam
Darcy's cousin; the younger son of a lord. [refer to your question 5 response for more information]
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
diversified
novelty
adieu
rallied
mercenary
avarice
distressed
spleen
banish
paling
discernible
fender
minuteness
clump
tenor
vexatious
phaeton
grandeur
toilette
antichamber (usually
spelled "antechamber")
conciliating
formidable
deportment
indisposed
composedly
out
disclaim
curtseyed
betray
ch.pg
27.149
27.149
27.149
27.151
27.151
27.151
27.151
27.152
28.153
28.153
28.153
28.154
28.154
28.154
28.155
28.155
28.156
29.157
29.157
definition
varied, given variety
newness
good-bye
met together for a purpose
greedy
greed
needy, strained
melancholy, ill temper
send out, exile
fence
able to be seen
screen for fireplace
close examination, close detail
cluster, thick grouping
voices
annoying
small carriage
nobleness, magnificence
process of dressing and grooming
context
diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton
There was novelty in the scheme
bidding her adieu
Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece
sorry to think our friend mercenary
Where does discretion end and avarice begin?
A man in distressed circumstances has not time
Adieu to disappointment and spleen.
to banish all fear for her health
The paling of Rosings park was their boundary
the Parsonage was discernible
from the sideboard to the fender
pointed out with a minuteness which left
how many trees...were in the most distant clump
the quiet tenor of their usual employments
the vexatious interruptions of Mr. Collins
ladies stopping in a low phaeton
displaying the grandeur of his patroness
the ladies were separating for the toilette
29.158
room before main room; a waiting room
through an antichamber
29.159
29.159
29.159
29.160
29.160
29.162
30.166
30.166
30.167
overcoming distrust, pleasant
arousing fear, awe-inspiring
behavior, conduct, demeanor
mildly ill, disinclined
with composure, with poise
in public circulation, in society
deny the truth of something
made a gesture of respect, like a bow
make known unintentionally
Her air was not conciliating
She was not rendered formidable by silence
in whose...deportment she found resemblance
fearing she was indisposed
answered them composedly
Are any of your younger sisters out?
had scarcely time to disclaim
Elizabeth merely curtseyed to him
whether he would betray any consciousness
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Twenty-seven
1. On what subject do Elizabeth and Mrs. Gardiner disagree?
Chapter Twenty-eight
2.
Elizabeth seems to regain some respect for Charlotte. What does she learn about Charlotte's living arrangement?
3.
What side of Elizabeth's personality do we see when Miss de Bourgh visits?
Chapter Twenty-nine
4. What is the purpose of this chapter? What does it add to the plot of the story?
Chapter Thirty
5.
Who is Colonel Fitzwilliam, and what kind of person does he seem to be?
2
Chapters 31-33
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. There is an odd spelling on page 180: Unles for Unless.
word
scruple
proficient
notion
impolitic
retaliate
execution
intrusion
emergence
prudential
earnest
mischance
penance
rencontre
re-perusing
disposal
inured
sole
charge
tractable
prodigious
scrape
disposed
officious
ch.pg
31.169
31.169
31.170
31.170
31.170
31.172
32.173
32.173
32.174
32.176
33.178
33.178
33.178
33.178
33.179
33.179
33.180
33.180
33.180
33.180
33.181
33.181
33.181
definition
hesitate, show reluctance
skilled, accomplished (person)―here a noun
idea, belief
hasty, acting without thinking
get revenge
performance
entering without permission
unexpected/urgent situation
practical, shrewd
serious, grave, important
bad luck, misfortune
act of self-debasement to show sorrow or repentance for a sin
casual meeting
studying/examining/reading again
under the power or authority of someone else
accustomed to accept something undesirable
solitary, having no companion
person or thing under the care of another
easily managed/taught, docile
great amount, lavish, enormous
a bad/uncomfortable situation
inclined
intrusive, meddlesome
context
she did not scruple to call out
I should have been a great proficient
give you a very pretty notion of me
very impolitic too
provoking me to retaliate
instructions on execution and taste
apologised for his intrusion
in this emergence recollecting when
in a prudential light
It was an earnest, steadfast gaze
perverseness of the mischance
a voluntary penance
in the course of their third rencontre
in re-perusing Jane's last letter
I am at his disposal
must be inured to self-denial
under his sole care
Does your charge give you much
one of the most tractable creatures
takes a prodigious deal of care
get into a scrape
You are rather disposed
call his interference officious
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Thirty-one
1. What do Darcy and Elizabeth reveal about their own characters and the other's in the "piano conversation" on pages
170-171?
Chapter Thirty-two
2. What makes Darcy's visit to Hunsford Parsonage awkward?
3.
What do you think is Darcy's motivation for going there and for saying what he says?
4.
What is Charlotte noticing between Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Elizabeth? What is her interpretation?
Chapter Thirty-three
5.
What makes Elizabeth think Colonel Fitzwilliam is interested in her?
6.
On their walk, what does Elizabeth say that startles Colonel Fitzwilliam, and what does Colonel Fitzwilliam say that
upsets Elizabeth?
Chapters 34-36
NEW CHARACTER
Mrs. Younge
Miss Georgiana Darcy's former governess; an acquaintance of Wickham's.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. One strange spelling: dropt for dropped.
word
revival
fluttered
repressed
ardently
subsequent
ch.pg
34.184
34.184
34.185
34.185
34.185
definition
renewal, bringing up again
excited
controlled, brought under control
passionately
following, coming next
context
nor was there any revival of past occurrences
her spirits were a little fluttered
My feelings will not be repressed.
how ardently I admire and love you
resentment by his subsequent language
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provocations
wholly
remorse
affected
incredulity
assumed
disdained
recital
contemptuously
comparative
desert
estimation
bitter
suppressed
policy
impelled
unalloyed
mingled
disapprobation
unpardonable
agitating
unequal
verdure
plantation
apprehension
formation
magnitude
charge
defiance
blasted
wantonly
exertion
depravity
severity
liberally
partiality
serenity
repugnance
coincidence
detaching
remonstrance
staggered
extinguished
vicious
steady
took orders
pecuniary
accede
obtruded
acquit
henceforth
detection
contrariety
insensibility
penitent
discredit
perturbed
gross
err
in lieu
profligacy
befriended
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something that causes anger or resentment
completely
guilt
assumed, faked, imitated
disbelief
pretended
hated
narration, telling of a story
with disgust and hatred
comparing to something else
reward or punishment
value
angry
controlled
prudence, caution
pressured, compelled
complete
mixed
ill feeling
unforgivable
troubling
unable to deal with
green
large estate
anxiety
forming
greatness
accusation, indictment
opposition
destroyed
without caution
effort
moral corruption
seriousness
freely
inclination toward
peace, calmness
disgust
similarity
separating
criticism
caused to lose strength
erased
evil
constant
went into the clergy
monetary
agree
forced on someone
free from accusation/criticism
from now
awareness
contrast
unconscious, unmindful
feeling remorse for a sin
argue against something successfully
confused, upset
terrible
make a mistake
in place
state of being recklessly wasteful
became a friend to
But I have other provocations.
which proved him wholly unmoved
by any feeling of remorse
with a smile of affected incredulity
with a smile of affected incredulity
With assumed tranquility
Elizabeth disdained the appearance
unfolded in the recital which I received
repeated Darcy contemptuously
comparative poverty
no less his due than his desert
This is the estimation in which you hold me!
These bitter accusations
might have been suppressed
had I with greater policy concealed
the belief of my being impelled by
unalloyed inclination
an expression of mingled incredulity
ground-work of disapprobation
his unpardonable assurance
very agitating reflections
made her feel how unequal she was to
adding to the verdure of the early trees
turned again into the plantation
by the apprehension of its containing
the effort which the formation
by no means of equal magnitude
you last night laid to my charge
in defiance of various claims
blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham
wilfully and wantonly
had been brought up to expect its exertion
would be a depravity
from the severity of that blame
which was last night so liberally bestowed
his partiality for Miss Bennet
that the serenity of your sister's countenance
other causes of repugnance
our coincidence of feeling
be lost in detaching their brother
however this remonstrance might have
staggered or delayed his determination
did not appear to me enough extinguished
The vicious propensities
was to the last so steady
and if he took orders
some more immediate pecuniary advantage
perfectly ready to accede to his proposal
again most painfully obtruded on my notice
you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth
acquit me henceforth of cruelty
Detection could not be in your power
what a contrariety of emotion
her sister's insensibility
his style was not penitent
She wished to discredit it entirely
In this perturbed state of mind
there was gross duplicity
her wishes did not err
of his receiving in lieu
The extravagance and general profligacy
no such recollection befriended her
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indelicacy
mediocrity
lingering
prepossession
fervent
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quality of lacking propriety, tactlessness
average, low quality or value
remaining
prejudice
passionate
She saw the indelicacy of putting himself
the mediocrity of her fortune
Every lingering struggle in his favour
I have courted prepossession and ignorance
Jane's feelings, though fervent, were little
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Thirty-four
1. Darcy says, "In vain have I struggled." What has he been struggling with, specifically?
2.
What does Elizabeth find so offensive about his marriage proposal?
3.
Explain Elizabeth's thoughts and feelings after Darcy leaves (189).
Chapter Thirty-five
4.
What key things does Elizabeth learn in Darcy's letter?
Chapter Thirty-six
5.
In her long contemplation over the letter, on what points does Elizabeth conclude that Darcy must be correct?
6.
As a result of reading and thinking about Darcy's letter, what does Elizabeth now realize about herself? (201-202)
Chapters 37-40
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. One strange spelling: sallad for salad (211).
word
obeisance
diminution
abide by
replete
civilities
deemed
indispensably
parcels
consternation
larder
signify
overset
congenial
plague
equivocal
vindication
profusion
spur
allayed
injurious
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definition
gesture of deference
reduction, diminishing
conform to, comply with
full of
courtesies, acts of politeness
judged, considered, supposed
essentially
packages
sudden confusion or amazement
place where meat and food are kept, pantry
have meaning or importance
throw into disturbed state, upset
friendly, sociable
harass, pester, annoy
of a doubtful or uncertain nature
clearing of blame or doubt
plentiful outpouring or display
stimulus, incentive3
lessen or reduce the pain; calm, set to rest
harmful
context
make them his parting obeisance
the diminution of the Rosings party
we must abide by our original plan
so replete with advantage
the parting civilities
he deemed indispensably necessary
he deemed indispensably necessary
the parcels placed within
with some consternation
meat as an inn larder usually affords
it will not much signify what one wears
who have been overset already by
be congenial with the generality of
nothing more to plague her
so vague and equivocal
Darcy's vindication
Your profusion makes me
It is such a spur to one's genius
The tumult in Elizabeth's mind was allayed
must have been injurious to her own health
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Thirty-seven
1. Elizabeth does a lot of thinking about what has happened and what she has learned. What certainties does she arrive at
regarding Bingley's affection for Jane, her family's behavior, and her feelings for Darcy?
Chapter Thirty-eight
2.
What is funny about Mr. Collins' farewell to Elizabeth?
Chapter Thirty-nine
3.
Why are the follies of the Bennet family no longer amusing to Elizabeth (and the reader)?
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Chapter Forty
4.
When Elizabeth finally tells Jane about what happened in Kent, what does she keep secret from her?
5.
What is Jane's reaction to the Wickham and Darcy situation, and how does Elizabeth react to Jane's response?
Chapters 41-42
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. There is one odd spelling: uncontrouled for uncontrolled
(223).
word
drooping
apace
woe
lamentations
resounding
perpetually
anew
repining
death-warrant
squeamish
aloof
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ladies in the neighborhood were drooping apace
ladies in the neighborhood were drooping apace
exclaim in the bitterness of woe
kind of lamentations resounding perpetually
kind of lamentations resounding perpetually
kind of lamentations resounding perpetually
She felt anew the justice of Mr. Darcy's objections
Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate
as the death-warrant of all possibility
Such squeamish youths
have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly
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definition
hang down with lifelessness
swiftly, at a rapid pace
deep sorrow, grief
acts of grieving, cries of sorrow
uttering loudly
continuously
again
grieving for a loss
death-sentence, absolute end
oversensitive
distant, indifferent
state of being flighty, lighthearted,
explosive
full of unrestrained joy or enthusiasm
keep away
ready flow of words, fluency
emotional disturbance
trivial, silly
nothing
prevent or discourage from acting
helpless, inadequate
wordy
noisy
marriage
narrow-minded, ill-bred
receive, obtain
complaining, peevish, fretful
beginning
cut short
shrunk, reduced in size
volatility
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exuberant
ward off
volubility
agitation
frivolous
ought
deter
pathetic
diffuse
clamorous
conjugal
illiberal
derive
querulous
commencement
curtailed
contracted
impunity
(with impunity)
chambermaid
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without harm or punishment
enter his county with impunity
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a maid in an inn or a hotel
she asked the chambermaid
be affected by the wild volatility
checking her exuberant spirits
unable to ward off any portion of
in their united volubility
agitation was pretty well over
frivolous gallantry
he deigned to add ought of civility
for it must deter him from such foul misconduct
her family was rather noisy than pathetic
Mrs. Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes
in the clamorous happiness of Lydia
pleasing picture of conjugal felicity
weak understanding and illiberal mind
derive benefit from such as are given
her usual querulous serenity
delayed its commencement
and curtailed its extent
a more contracted tour
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Forty-one
1. What are Mr. Bennet's reasons for allowing Lydia to go to Brighton? How does Austen (and Elizabeth?) judge Mr. Bennet
as a husband and father?
2.
What enjoyment does Elizabeth find in her conversation with Wickham?
Chapter Forty-two
3.
Earlier Elizabeth said that she was sure she never cared to see Darcy again. At the end of this chapter, do you believe
her? Why or why not?
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IB Literature—Pfeiffer
Pride and Prejudice (1813): Study Guide for Volume 3 (Chapters 43-61)
Chapters 43-44
NEW CHARACTER
Mrs. Reynolds
Darcy's elderly housekeeper, whom Elizabeth and the Gardiners meet at Pemberley.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. There is one odd spelling: connexion for connection.
word
perturbation
surveying
prospect
miniatures
affable
intelligible
started
immoveable
sedateness
whence
glen
coppice
submit
strike into
construed
stroke
decamping
sustained
tackle
brink
outstripped
embargo
tete-a-tete
whimsical
flaming
liberal
environs
livery
imparted
quarter
disquiet
monosyllable
discerning
cordiality
ardently
resemblance
untinctured
ridicule
patron
discharged
petulance
acrimony
bent on
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definition
emotional disturbance
looking over
view
small paintings
easy to speak to, amiable
capable of being understood
moved suddenly as from a surprise
incapable of being moved
composure, manner that is serenely deliberate
from where, out of which place
valley
group of small trees
yield, surrender
go, proceed
analyzed, thought of
manner, touch
depart suddenly or secretively
withstood, endured
equipment
edge
surpassed, exceeded
prohibition
dialogue, conversation between two people
unpredictable, flighty
intense, ardent
generous
surroundings
uniform of a servant in a household, carriage
made known, disclosed
person or group
uneasiness, restlessness
one syllable
noticing with careful attention
sincerity, warmth
passionately, intensely
similar appearance
unstained
mockery, condemnation
economic supporter
got rid of
ill-temper, contemptuousness
bitterness, ill-natured hatred in manner
inclined to, interested in
context
with some perturbation
after slightly surveying it
enjoy its prospect
amongst several other miniatures
just as affable to the poor
more intelligible
He absolutely started
seemed immoveable from surprise
none of its usual sedateness
whence, in spots where the opening
contracted into a glen
amidst the rough coppice-wood
obliged to submit
probably strike into some other part
might be mischievously construed
a stroke of civility
expectation of his decamping
he sustained it
supply him with fishing tackle
descending to the brink of the river
They soon outstripped the others
there seemed an embargo on
before the tete-a-tete was over
he may be a little whimsical in his
a most flaming character
Be he is a liberal master, I suppose
interesting spots in its environs
immediately recognising the livery
imparted no small degree of surprise
attentions from such a quarter
other causes of disquiet
beyond a monosyllable
by discerning such different feelings
the unaffected cordiality with which
how ardently did she long to know
trying to trace a resemblance
not untinctured by tenderness
would draw down the ridicule
with the son of his patron
which Mr. Darcy afterward discharged
forgive all the petulance and acrimony
forgive all the petulance and acrimony
bent on making her known to his sister
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QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Forty-three
1.
Why do you think that this chapter is considered one of the most important of the novel?
2.
How does Pemberley reflect its owner?
3.
Why is Darcy's invitation to Elizabeth to meet his sister significant?
Chapter Forty-four
4.
How does Elizabeth feel about meeting Miss Darcy?
5.
Do Darcy and his sister have anything in common? Do Elizabeth and Miss Darcy have anything in common?
6.
Was Elizabeth's first impression of Darcy completely wrong?
7.
One of the hardest things a novelist can do is portray convincingly a change in a character. Does Austen succeed with Darcy?
If so, how?
Chapters 43-44
NEW CHARACTER
Mrs. Annesley
Miss Darcy's current governess, with whom she lives in London.
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. There is one odd spelling: secresy for secrecy.
word
saloon
predominate
exerted
disengaged
discomposed
meditated
ensure
shrewish
nettled
confined
renewing
turnpikes
exigence
impetuous
superceded
commissioned
unintelligible
commiseration
wretched
palliation
retrospective
infamy
anguish
prey
fluctuating
wild
deranged
summons
actuated
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large reception room, for entertaining
dominate, be of greater power
put forth effort
uninvolved
disturb the calmness of someone
planned or intended in the mind
make certain of
scolding, nagging
irritated, vexed
restricted
restore, re-establish
road with a toll
urgent situation
impulsive, hasty
replace, take the place of
put into service
unable to be understood
sympathize with, express pity for
miserable
easing, act of making less severe
looking back on the past
evil fame or reputation
mental pain, torment
victim
varying irregularly
full of intense emotion
disturbed from normal condition
request to go/come somewhere
put into action
context
through the hall into the saloon
believed her wishes to predominate
exerted herself much more to talk
in a tolerably disengaged tone
merely intended to discompose Elizabeth
Miss Darcy's meditated elopement
enough to ensure her favour
have a sharp, shrewish look
look somewhat nettled
though not confined for time
anxiously renewing them
at all the turnpikes
In such an exigence my uncle's advice
impetuous manner
every idea was superceded by Lydia's situation
she commissioned him
made her almost unintelligible
in a tone of gentleness and commiseration
in wretched suspense
afforded no palliation of her distress
threw a retrospective glance
Lydia's infamy must produce
found additional anguish
from falling an easy prey
had been continually fluctuating
She was wild to be at home
in a family so deranged
the cause of their summons
all three being actuated by one spirit
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QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Forty-five
1.
How are Elizabeth and Mrs. Gardiner received at Pemberley by the Bingley sisters, Miss Darcy, and Darcy?
2.
What evidence can you find for Darcy's current feelings for Elizabeth?
Chapter Forty-six
3.
What do you think Darcy is thinking on page 265-266? What does Elizabeth think about after he leaves?
Chapters 47-48
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. The words in bold will be on the next vocabulary test.
There is one odd spelling: drily for dryly.
word
decency
hackney coach
expeditiously
insinuating
keenest
interval
paddock
capers
frisks
fugitives
sanguine
apartment
invectives
villanous
(now, villainous)
spasms
moderation
seclusion
incurred
stem the tide
balm
brittle
extractions
apprehension
faculties
condole
dilatory
correspondent
striving
blacken
intrigues
alleviate
licentiousness
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quality of being proper or moral
carriage for hire
quickly
suggesting
sharpest
period of time
fenced area
leaping about
playful movement
someone who flees from something
optimistic
room, group of rooms
critical language
viciously wicked or criminal; obnoxious
context
violation of decency
into an hackney coach
though less expeditiously
he is insinuating
keenest of all anguish
find no interval of ease
as they entered the paddock
a variety of capers and frisks
a variety of capers and frisks
heard of the fugitives
The sanguine hope of good
to whose apartment they all repaired
invectives against the villanous conduct
invectives against the villanous conduct
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such spasms in my sides
recommending moderation to her
such a seclusion from the family
she had herself incurred in the business
stem the tide of malice
balm of sisterly consolation
no less brittle than it is beautiful
moral extractions
Had they no apprehension of any thing
took from me my faculties
condole with us
negligent and dilatory correspondent
negligent and dilatory correspondent
seemed striving to blacken the man
seemed striving to blacken the man
his intrigues
can alleviate so severe a misfortune
this licentiousness of behaviour
augmented
heinous
transpired
gamester
intreaty
(also spelled, entreaty)
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cramps
not excessive or extreme activity
state of being set apart from others
brought upon one's self
stop or hold back the force of something
something that soothes, heals, or comforts
easily breakable
extract; passage from a literary work
ability to understand
power or ability
express sympathy or sorrow
tending to delay or procrastinate
one who communicates through letters
trying hard
defame, ruin the reputation of someone
secret love affairs, schemes
make more bearable
having no regard for acceptable rules or
behaviour, lacking moral restraint
increased
extremely wicked
happened, occurred
a frequent gambler
plea
augmented satisfaction
her own heinous offence
it had just transpired that
"A gamester!" she cried.
his brother-in-law's intreaty that he
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QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Forty-seven
1.
Who do you think is to blame for the Bennet family crisis?
2.
What self-reproach (criticism of herself) does Elizabeth reveal on page 271-272?
Chapter Forty-eight
3.
How would you describe Mr. Collins' letter?
4.
How has this family crisis affected Mr. Bennet?
Chapters 49-51
NEW CHARACTER
Haggerston
Mr. Gardiner's lawyer or accountant (it's not explained).
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. There is one odd thing: dont for don't.
word
copse
decease
per annum
explicitly
Heaven forbid!
requited
calico, muslin,
and cambric
proportionate
spiteful
guinea
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definition
area of small trees or shrubs
death
per year
clearly, precisely
exclamation of shock or disgust
repaid, returned
kinds of fabric
context
walking towards the little copse
after the decease of yourself
one hundred pounds per annum
be careful to write explicitly
Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid!
The kindness...can never be requited
all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric
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with proportionate speed through the neighborhood
from all the spiteful old ladies in Meryton
would not advance a guinea to buy clothes
spurned
multitude
connubial
welfare
subjoin
culprit
austerity
untamed
unabashed
curricle
commission
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cogent
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properly related
wishing ill on others, malicious
old British gold coin worth a bit over a
pound
rejected, refused, scorned
large group of people
having to do with marriage
condition, situation
add at the end, append
one guilty or at fault for a crime
severe, stern, grave, somber
not tamed, wild
not embarrassed
a light, opened, 2-wheeled carriage
government document indicating military
rank
convincing
proudly spurned only four months ago
teach the admiring multitude
what connubial felicity really was
promote the welfare of any of his family
of whom I shall subjoin a list
had she been the culprit
His countenance had rather gained in austerity
untamed and unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless
untamed and unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless
overtook William Goulding in his curricle
received his commission before he left London
for very cogent reasons
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Forty-nine
1. What is the great act of generosity Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth believe that Mr. Gardiner has done for the family?
Chapter Fifty
2.
What are Elizabeth's thoughts about and feelings toward Darcy now (294-296)?
Chapter Fifty-one
3.
What is so outrageous about Lydia's behavior at Longbourn?
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4.
In watching the newlyweds, what assessment does Elizabeth give of their relationship (301)?
Chapters 52-53
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel. On page 314, there is an old verb form you may not know:
shan't, which means shall not.
word
comprise
dreadfully
racked
motive
confide
remedy
expedite
battled
against the grain
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reserve
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sly
presuming
overtaken
palateable
(usually
spelled
"palatable")
compromised
simpers
smirks
forlorn
fidgets
speculation
etiquette
tidings
partake
lustre
irremediable
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definition
consist of, be composed of
terribly
tormented, strained
reason for doing something
share a secret, open up to emotionally
fix, solve
make happen quickly
engaged in discussing something
against what is desired or what is
proper
self-restraint, quality of keeping things
private
cunning
having excessive self-confidence
catch up with, take by surprise
agreeable, acceptable to the mind or
senses
context
a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you
not so dreadfully racked as your's seems
not so dreadfully racked as your's seems
The motive professed was his conviction
love or confide in him
endeavour to remedy an evil
to secure and expedite a marriage
They battled it together for a long time
went sorely against the grain
exposed to suspicion or danger
silly smiles
self-conscious smiles
sad
nervous movements
risky guessing
social rule
information, news
take part in, share
brightness
impossible to repair or correct
the business had been compromised accordingly
He simpers and smirks and makes love to us all.
He simpers and smirks and makes love to us all.
One seems so forlorn without them.
Mrs. Bennet was quite in the fidgets.
without raising all this speculation
'Tis an etiquette I despise.
have the earliest tidings of it
called to partake their joy
added lustre to her eyes
from irremediable infamy
I doubt whether his reserve, or anybody's
I thought him very sly
I have been very presuming
she was overtaken by Wickham
when sermon-making was not palateable to you
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Fifty-two
1. What is Mrs. Gardiner's opinion of Darcy?
2.
Why does Elizabeth say she is proud of Darcy?
3.
How does Elizabeth behave toward Wickham?
Chapter Fifty-three
4.
How does this chapter parallel an earlier chapter?
5.
What does Elizabeth have to endure? What does she find so painful?
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Chapters 54-55
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
confederacy
indignity
rapacity
venison
partridges
ch.pg
54.322
54.322
54.323
54.323
54.323
definition
group of people united by a purpose
humiliating or degrading experience
greed
deer meat
wild game birds
context
in so close a confederacy
There is no indignity so abhorrent
her mother's rapacity for whist players
The venison was roasted to a turn
the partridges were remarkably well done
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Fifty-four
1. What humor is there in this chapter? What anxiety is there in this chapter?
Chapter Fifty-five
2.
What does Bingley not tell Jane, and why is Elizabeth grateful?
3.
What is Mr. Bennet's opinion of Jane and Bingley's marriage? Do you agree with him?
4.
What were Bingley's and Jane's main mistakes in the development of their relationship?
Chapters 56-57
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
equipage
prevailed
ungracious
allurements
entitled
brooking
upstart
recede
ambition
ch.pg
56.332
56.332
56.332
56.335
56.335
56.336
56.337
56.337
56.339
revolving
wavering
constancy
sagacity
illustrious
personages
precipitate
diverted
rector
Missish
penetration
57.340
57.341
57.341
57.342
57.342
57.342
57.342
57.343
57.343
57.343
57.344
definition
livery, carriage appearance
became effective, won out
not gracious, not polite
temptations, attractive qualities
given the right or claim to something
putting up with, tolerating
self-important
withdraw, retreat
eager or strong desire to achieve
something
pondering, reflecting on
having no decision, moving back and forth
faithfulness, steadfastness in purpose
wisdom
famous, distinguished
people
hasty, impulsive
amused, entertained
clergyman
coy, girlish
understanding, insight
context
the equipage did not answer to that of
Bingley instantly prevailed on Miss Bennet
with an air more than usually ungracious
your arts and allurements may have made him
But you are not entitled to know mine
in the habit of brooking disappointment
The upstart pretensions of a young woman
Do not believe...that I will ever recede.
Do not imagine...that your ambition will ever
In revolving lady Catherine's expressions
If he had been wavering before
every wish of his constancy
I may defy even your sagacity
one of the most illustrious personages in this land
one of the most illustrious personages in this land
by a precipitate closure with this gentleman's
Are you not diverted?
had I been rector of Longbourn
You are not going to Missish, I hope
wonder at such a want of penetration
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Fifty-six
1.
How does Elizabeth show her strength of character in the conversation with Lady Catherine de Bourgh?
2.
Besides this chapter, where else does someone warn Elizabeth against a marriage? How are the tones of the scenes different?
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Chapter Fifty-seven
3. What does Elizabeth think is the nature of the relationship between Lady Catherine and Darcy?
4.
When he is writing about Darcy to Mr. Bennet, in which sentences does Collins reveal his character fully (343)?
5.
Where does Mr. Bennet reveal his outlook on life in one sentence (343-344)?
Chapters 58-59
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
lagged
diffused
indebted
contrariwise
irrevocably
premises
annexed
irreproachable
reconciled
devoid
overbearing
unabated
article
epithet
ch.pg
58.345
58.346
58.347
58.347
58.347
58.347
58.347
58.347
58.347
58.348
58.349
58.350
59.353
59.354
disposing
incredulity
rant
storm
gaiety
59.355
59.356
59.357
59.357
59.304
definition
stayed or fell behind, lingered
spread
owing gratitude to another person
opposite
cannot be changed, unalterably
something believed or presumed
connected
cannot be criticized
come to accept something unpleasant
empty, completely without
dominant, proud
without end, continuing
matter, point
abusive word or phrase describing a
person
getting rid of
disbelief
talk in a noisy or excited manner
be in a passion, rage
high spirits, merriment
context
They lagged behind
diffused over his face
indebted for their present good understanding
its effect had been exactly contrariwise.
absolutely, irrevocably decided against me
formed on mistaken premises
the greater share of blame annexed to that evening
The conduct of neither...will be irreproachable
I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself.
You thought me then devoid of every proper feeling
almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing
his attachment to her was unabated
When convinced on that article, Miss Bennet had
always giving him such an epithet
fears and regrets in disposing of her
she did conquer her father's incredulity
he will rant and storm about his love for you
he will rant and storm about his love for you
Every thing was too recent for gaiety
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Fifty-eight
1.
Describe the style of the new proposal. Why do you think Austen shows it this way?
2.
What do Elizabeth and Darcy say about their past behavior?
3.
What is ironic about Lady Catherine's interference?
Chapter Fifty-nine
4.
Here's a thought: Who did more for whom: Darcy for Lydia, or Lydia for Darcy? Explain.
5.
How would you describe the reaction the impending marriage receives from Jane, Mr. Bennet, and Mrs. Bennet?
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Chapters 60-61
VOCABULARY: I have defined the words as they are used in the novel.
word
avowed
befall
vicinity
moralize
arrear
sportive
indignant
ch.pg
60.361
60.361
61.364
61.365
61.366
61.366
61.367
definition
declared with confidence or openly
happen to
area, neighborhood
explain or interpret morally
debt
playful
filled with anger over something that
seems unjust
context
My avowed one, or what I avowed to myself
what is to befall her?
So near a vicinity to her mother
but she could still moralize over every morning
paid off every arrear of civility to Elizabeth
at her lively, sportive, manner of talking
Lady Catherine was extremely indignant
QUESTIONS to check your understanding:
Chapter Sixty
1.
What made Darcy fall in love with Elizabeth?
2.
What do you think is the tone and content of Elizabeth's letter to her aunt? of Darcy's letter to his aunt?
3.
What worries Elizabeth (363)? How does Darcy respond?
Chapter Sixty-one
4. How is Elizabeth's belief that Lydia and Wickham's marriage cannot be a good one confirmed in this chapter?
5.
Describe Miss Bingley's, Georgiana Darcy's, and Lady Catherine's reaction, feelings, and attitudes toward Darcy's marriage and
his new wife?
6.
What does the end of the novel say about Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's role?
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