Pride and Prejudice

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Pride and Prejudice

• Volume III (chaps 10-19)
• Marriage, Class and Family

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Outline
Starting Questions Plot Summary

• Marriage Plot (1)
• Elizabeth and Darcy
• Elizabeths struggle (chaps 11-12)
• Darcys changes recounted (chap 281-83)
• Reasons for their love for each other (291-92,
  etc)
• Marriage and Family (chaps 17, 18, 19)

Chap 9 "Lydia was Lydia still, untamed,
unabashed, wild and fearless"

• Marriage Plot (3)
• Jane Bingley
• Janes reservation change
• Bingleys Change
• Reasons
• Marriage and Family

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Starting Questions

• Your Questions?
• What is the most interesting details (in the
  whole book or in volume III)? The boring
  passages?
• Is there anything in the progress of the marriage
  proposals which seem different from those in ours
  society? Similar?
• Differences the importance of the family
  connections love developed through visits, . .
  ..
• Similarities -- the parents approval and
  blessing, . . .

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Plot Summary

• Three Marriage plots
• III Chap 1-4 Pemberley visit (2 BingleyJane)
  letters from Jane
• III. Chap 5-9 solution of Lydias elopement
  scandal. Chap 7 marriage, Chap 9 homecoming.
• III. Chapters 10-19
• 11 Darcy and Bingley's visit. Elizabeths
  internal monologue continues. Janes responses
• 12. Party at Longbourn
• 13. Bingleys proposal the familys responses
  (esp. Mr. Bennets)
• 14. Lady Catherines intervention Class
• 15. Collins letter hypocrisy and clss
• 16. Darcys Proposal responded to indirectly
  280.
• 17. the familys responses (esp. Mr. Bennets)
• 18. Informing the other. Elizabeth playful
  again.
• 19. Happy ending

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Chapters 11-13 Janes reservation ? to utter
happiness

• Preparation for a comic and happy ending.
• Repetition of Mrs. Bennets attempts (asking Mr.
  Bennet for help, arranging a party herself,
  sending the others away to allow Jane and Bingley
  to be by themselves.)
• Jane
• 11 reserved (not afraid of herself, but afraid
  of gossips 252) Paler, calm and with ease 255
• 12 enjoyed his conversation but nothing else 261
  What do you think? Is she too shy?
• 13 silence (263) ? complete happiness after the
  proposal 264

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Jane vs. Elizabeth over her reservation

• But why should you wish to persuade me that I
  feel more than I acknowledge?''
• That is a question which I hardly know how to
  answer. We all love to instruct, though we can
  teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me
  and if you persist in indifference, do not make
  me your confidante.' (261)
• ? a matter of self-protection
• ? Everyone needs some private moments to examine
  the nature of their love.

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Bingleys Change

• First visit (1) Jane sits by Bingley by chance
  (259) (2) Darcys observation
• Darcys encouragement and revelation before he
  goes to London (284)
• Chap 13 p. 262 -- Bingley starts to come
  everyday. The mother means to leave the two of
  them alone.

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Jane Bingley Reasons for their attachment

• Their mutual attraction
• Obstacles Ms. Bingley (her letter) and Darcy
• Encouragement of Darcy and Mrs. Bennet.
• Similarities of their Personalities
• Darcys comment on Bingley changeful,
  unaffectedly modest
• Jane 1) tries to clear Darcy and Wickham twice
  2) not blame anyone over Mr. Bingleys departure
• E My dear Jane! . . . you are too good. Your
  sweetness and disinterestedness are really
  angelic (II 1).
• Mr. Bennets comments on their kindness and
  softness (or gullibility) 265-66

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Jane Bingley Marriage, Individuals and Family

• Jane stops talking about Bingley once she is sure
  of the emotional involvement of both. (263)
• She immediately confides to Elizabeth, and then
  her mother, once they are engaged. (263-64)
• Her happiness shows how marriage is a must for
  women of her time.

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Elizabeth and Darcy their similar developments

• -- Humbled admit their errors
• -- Realize or Relativize
• the importance of class distinction

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Elizabeths Changes

• Growing Realization of the influence of her
  family
• at Netherfield ball she starts to see them
  through Ds eyes
• When reading Darcys letter
• Lydias Elopement (III 5 p. 214)
• the father Wickham might imagine from his
  indolence and the little attention he has ever
  seemed to give his family, that he would do as
  little, and think as little, about it, as any
  father could do in such a matter"
• --Lydia has never been taught to think on
  serious subjects
• Changes of her views of Darcy since?
• Reading the letter
• the visit to Pemberley
• Lydias elopement 1) upon Darcys departure
  (quote)
• 2) would have been easier to bear had it not been
  for Darcy. (227)
• 3) Darcys help an "exertion of goodness too
  great to be probable" (248) proud of him.

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Elizabeths Changes (quote)

• (211) . . . as she threw a retrospective glance
  over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of
  contradictions and varieties, sighed at the
  perverseness of those feelings which would now
  have promoted its continuance, and would formerly
  have rejoiced in its termination. If
  gratitude and esteem are good foundations of
  affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will
  be neither improbable nor faulty. . . .

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Elizabeths struggle internal monologue

• Internal monologue About Bingley 252
• Elizabeth knows more than Jane-Bingely
  relationship and Darcy, and thus struggles more
  internally over her various concerns.
• Struggle over what to think about Darcy, who
  becomes silent, cold and rigid again (255).
• 255 257 258.
• the mothers ungraciousness. 256
• Over trying to find a chance to talk to Darcy 260

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Obstracles Help

• (1) Lydias elopement
• (2) The Conflict between L. Catherine and
  Elizabeth
• Class issue
• LCs rudeness many many examples.
• Elizabeths responses that she is a gentlemans
  daughter and can be a match to Darcy. ? gives
  Darcy hope indirectly. (292)

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Darcys Changes Recounted

• P. 281-283
• Shocked by her total refusal seen as not
  gentleman-like
• Self-knowledge Realizes how he has been
  selfish all his life and how he does not
  like/know anyone beyond his immediate family
  circle.
• His efforts in winning Es respect
• Changes himself
• Helps the Bennet family (admits his errors, too)
  
• Helps Bingley-Jane goes to Longbourne to
  observe Jane, but also to see E. Silent
  because he feels too much.

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Summary Reasons for their Love

• Pemberley E. But I believe I must date it from
  my first seeing his beautiful grounds at
  Pemberley.'' (286) (she felt that to be
  mistress of Pemberley might be something!")
• Mental affinity Great minds think alike. (Chap
  18)
• The ordeals and changes they each go through
  because of the other
• Darcy ordeal self-recognition
• Darcy change more polite and less proud
• Elizabeth ordeal familys scandal? thought
  she lost him forever uncertainties.
• Elizabeth change her feelings for him.
• Mutual gratitude and respect.

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Elizabeth and Darcy Marriage, Individuals and
Family

• First things to do informing her family and
  getting the parents consent
• Jane and Mr. Bennets response shocked,
  concerned, blessing them. Pp. 285-86l288-89
• Mrs. Bennets responses p. 290 shocked, thinks
  of money, still prefers Wickham.
• Chap 8 1) playful dialogue between E D 2)
  Informing the Gardiners, Collins and Lady
  Catherine

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Marriage, Individuals and Family

• Individual choices, which have to influence and
  be influenced by their families
• The family circles
• Close circle the Bingleys and Darcys, the
  Gardiners
• People to be tolerated but shunned after their
  marriage 294 Sir William, Mrs. Philips, 295
  Meryton relations
• People to be improved on -- Mrs. Bennet and
  Kitty p. 295
• The one to humor LC p. 297
• To assist, but to be kept at a distance and not
  talked about Wickham and Lydia pp. 295, 296.