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Titels van Jane Austen

• Emma (12)

  1816

• Northanger Abbey (1)

  1798

• Persuasion (1)

  1817

• Pride and prejudice (23)

  1813

• Sense and sensibility / Verstand en onverstand (13)

  1811

1a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Jane Austen
c. romance novel

2a. The story is situated in England in the 19th century. Most of the story takes place in the village of Longborn in Hertfordshire, but a part of it also takes place in Derbyshire, where Darcy’s estate is. And in the city of London, Kent.
The story is chronological. You start at the beginning of the story. Where all the characters are introduced and then you follow several characters through a year of their life. When that year is over, the story has ended.
There are no flashbacks, although there are sometimes memories of what happened before.

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

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”

This is the first sentence of the book. It describes perfectly the social environment . It shows that one of the convictions was that a woman must marry and may not live with her husband before they marry. It’s very clear that the book is situated in the 19th century, because there are a lot aspects from the 19th century. And also a lot of aspects about England. If the story would situated in for example America, the book would probably be very different.

3a. Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley.

b. Elizabeth Bennet;
She’s a very headstrong young woman. She has an own opinion on everything and is not afraid to let anyone hear it. She has a great sense of humour, which sometimes makes her to cynical. She’s also rather prejudiced towards rich people. And is, after a fashion, a rather proud young woman, she will not be forced into doing something she doesn’t want to do. She has a great sense of propriety and cares much for her family’s reputation. She’s very close to her father and her sister Jane.

Fitzwilliam Darcy;
He is considered very proud. But in fact he’s rather shy, and because of that he doesn’t make much contact with people. Therefore people assume that he’s too proud to talk with them, while in fact he isn’t. According to some other people he’s a very nice and generous man who will always be ready to help someone in need. Eventually that turns out to be his true character.

Jane Bennet;
Is a good-hearted girl. She’s always determined to think the best of people.
She’s simply incapable of thinking ill of anyone. But she’s not week, she’s very strong. She has suffered of a broken heart, without showing it to anyone. And she’s also very good at hiding her true feelings which requires a lot of strength. In the book she’s described, almost, as some sort of angel, so pure and good, and on top of that very beautiful.

Charles Bingley;
Is sort of the male form of Jane. He’s also very good-hearted. Has very good manners, is very polite and pleasant. He is not good at hiding his feelings, he’s more the sort or person that is incapable of hiding what he feels. Also he’s sometimes a bit insecure, therefore he can be easily persuaded by his sisters or his friends.

c. The round-characters are Elizabeth and Darcy.
Elizabeth is at first a rather cynical woman, who thinks she has seen it all.
That is until she meets Mr. Darcy who forces her to review every judgement that she’d given so fast every time. It’s like she’s frozen and at the end she’s thawed out. She’s more open to other people’s opinion and is not so sure of her own judgement anymore.
Darcy is very proud and a snob until he meets Elizabeth.
He falls in love with her. which forces him to adjust his view of society.
Because he’s always considered himself superior in almost every way.
But Elizabeth is not having that. And when they have an argument and she tells him ‘’had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner…” this makes a great impact on him.
It makes him look back on his previous behaviour with shame. His manners soften and he becomes a more pleasant man.
After a fashion I think the two complete each other. The changed that they cause are for their benefit. They out the best in each other.

The other characters are flat characters.

d. I like Jane Bennet the most. Because she’s a very positive woman and she’s always nice to everyone. She’s also very pretty. Although she’s a very strong woman. I just think she’s a perfect character; nice, sweet, handsome and strong. That’s why I like her the most.

4a. At first, that one of the convictions was that a woman must marry and may not live with her husband before they marry. That’s the most important thing that is shown in the book.
The second thing is family. Family was very important in the 19th century. If you did something wrong, the family could drop you out, because you ashamed the family.
An other thing is the problems that the lower ranks of society have. Like the Bennet family. They are not of noble birth but they do belong to the upper class. But because they have little money the nobility doesn’t really take them seriously. The continual search for a rich husband or wife is very typical I think, for that time and especially for the poorer nobility.

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

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”

I used this scene before, but it really shows that marrying is very important, especially for women.

The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennett had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice, and she has been distinguished by his sisters. Jane was as much gratified by this, as her mother could be, though in a quieter way.

The whole book is about a mother who wants to find men for her daughters, so I choose another scene about this subject. In this scene you also see how important men are. Mrs. Bennet is very happy that her daughters danced with Mr. Bingley.

5. The title of the book is Pride & Prejudiced.
I think those are the characteristics of the two main characters.
Or at least the characteristics that they are supposed to have in the beginning and must overcome at the end. Mr. Darcy is the Pride and Elizabeth Bennet is the Prejudiced.

6. Elisabeth Bennet lives with her Parents and four sisters, Mary, Kitty, Jane and Lydia, in Loungborn. She lives in the time where it was normal to marry for money and so she and her sisters were looking for husbands.
The girls went to a ball and there they met Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bingley seemed interested in Jane, because he danced with her twice. Mr. Darcy was not so fond of dancing and showed no interest in any of the girls.
He gave Elisabeth, acting like he did, the feeling that he was rude and too proud (pride = trots.) She thought bad of him before she even got to know him (Prejudice = vooroordeel.)
Mr. William Collins, Mr. Bennet's cousin, came to Loungborn. He stayed there for about a week. He asked Elisabeth to marry him. She refused him, because she didn't love him. He is indignant about it and two days later he asks Charlotte Lucas to marry him and they do. A lot of time passes without anything unusual happening. The girls are still going to balls and there they meet Mr. Wickham and he acts really nice and Elisabeth really likes him.
At this time she does not see that Mr. Darcy is in love with her and he asks her to marry him. Instead of saying yes, she refuses him and tells him that she thinks he is rude and not polite. He writes her a letter to apologise for his behaviour. Elisabeth is surprised by what he writes and she starts to realise that she was thinking badly of him when he wasn't bad at all. She also realised that she loved him. Some time passes and then Elisabeth went away with her aunt and Uncle Gardiner. In the house where she stays she meets Mr. Darcy and they get along quite well. After staying there for a couple of days she receives a letter from home.
It said that her sister Lydia ran away with Mr. Wickham. This was quite a shock for her and she talked about it to Mr. Darcy who comforted her and helped her in this hard time.
A day or two later, Lydia wrote the family a letter to announce that she was now married to Mr. Wickham. So that problem was solved.
Mr. Darcy went to Elisabeth's father to ask for her hand and because Mr. Darcy was so rich he didn't refuse. Mr. Bennet asked for his daughter to come with him in the library. He told her that Mr. Darcy had asked for her hand and if she wanted to marry him. She had already realised that she loved Mr Darcy so she said: 'yes'.
Jane married Mr. Bingley because she loved him.

7. Love: This is the main theme of the story: The courtship between Darcy and Elizabeth. In every love story ever written the two lovers go through obstacles to be together. And so in this story they must put aside their pride and realize that their prejudices were wrong, in order for them to realize the true character of the other person. They must separate themselves from society’s norms and notions and realize that their true love is right in front of them.
In this novel, the author also shows the contrast between true love and love made because of society’s rules.

8. I would change the time, because the whole story would be different if the story would be situated in the 21st century. All the social aspects of the 19th century would be gone and there will be no problems about rank and marrying, because in this century these things are not very important.