Pride and Prejudice Character List
Pride and Prejudice Character List
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Pride and Prejudice Character List
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Elizabeth: Elizabeth is the main character of the novel, and the story traces her changing impressions of other characters throughout the narrative. While at first she finds Wickham charming and Darcy proud, in the end she realizes that she has been blind and prejudiced, and that Darcy is the true gentleman while Wickham is not. About Elizabeth, Jane Austen wrote in a letter, "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least I do not know." |
AP Literature & Composition
Mrs. Wolf
Pride and Prejudice Discussion Questions
As you read the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, please reflect upon and respond to the following questions. You will be expected to write well-supported, quality answers to submit for a grade. You must include examples and commentary of your own to justify each response. We will also be discussing many of these questions in class – be prepared!
Scholars have described this book as a very conservative text. Did you find it so? What sort of position do you see it taking on the class system?
In 1814 Mary Russell Mitford wrote: “It is impossible not to feel in every line of Pride and Prejudice . . . the entire want of taste which could produce so pert, so worldly a heroine as the beloved of such a man as Darcy . . . Darcy should have married Jane.”
Would you have liked the book as well if Jane were its heroine? Explain.
Lydia and Wickham pose a danger to the Bennet family as long as they are unmarried and unchecked. But as a married couple, with little improvement in their behavior, this danger vanishes.
In Pride and Prejudice marriage serves many functions. It is romantic union, a financial merger, and a vehicle for social regulations. Scholar and writer Mary Poovey said that Austen’s goal “is to make propriety and romantic desire congruent.”
Think about all the marriages in the book and discuss how well they are fulfilling those functions.
Austen suggests that in order to marry well a woman must be pretty, respectable, and have money. In the world of Pride and Prejudice, which of these is most important? Explain and support your answer with examples and commentary.
Spare a thought for some of the unmarried women in the novel – Mary and Kitty Bennet, Miss de Bourgh, Miss Georgiana Darcy, poor, disappointed Caroline Bingley. Which of them do you picture marrying some day? Which of them do you picture marrying well?
Was Charlotte Lucas right to marry Reverend Collins?
What are your feelings about Mr. Bennet? Is he a good father? A good husband? A good man?
Darcy says that one of Wickham’s motivations in his attempted elopement with Georgiana was revenge. What motivations might he have had for running off with Lydia?
Elizabeth Bennet says, “ . . . people themselves alter so much that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
Do any of the characters in the novel change substantially? Or do they, as Elizabeth says of Darcy, “in essentials” remain much as they ever were?
Elizabeth is furious with Darcy for breaking up the match between Jane and Mr. Bingley. Although he initially defends himself, she changes his mind. Later when Lady Catherine attempts to interfere in his own courtship, he describes this as unjustifiable. Explain the difference is these situations.
At what moment does Elizabeth begin to fall in love with Mr. Darcy?
In what ways are the themes and concerns of the novel timeless? In other words, how are they still relevant in today’s society?
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