Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

17 quotes — Family & Reputation with full 6-part analysis

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PROGRESS

“Your pride... his pride... for you are really proud of your defects in understan…”

LEXICAL REPETITION / SEMANTIC REFRAMINGSUBVERSION OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY

Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 3, Chapter 15

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STAGNATE

“A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing f…”

ECONOMIC QUANTIFICATIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FRAMING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the…”

EUPHEMISM & SEMANTIC EVASIONCONDITIONAL MOOD / MATERNAL WISH

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 3

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STAGNATE

“You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves”

HYPERBOLE & SOMATISATIONTHE BENNET MARRIAGE AS FOIL

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

“I am sure I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away…”

HYPERBOLE & ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTAUSTEN'S INDIRECT FORESHADOWING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 7

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STAGNATE

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in …”

RHETORICAL QUESTION AS PHILOSOPHYIRONY AS EVASION

Mr Bennet · Chapter 57

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PROGRESS

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a str…”

ANTITHETICAL PARALLELISMCOMIC INTERVENTION & POWER

Mr Bennet · Chapter 20

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REGRESS

“I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair — it will pass, and no…”

SELF-AWARE BATHOSTRAGIC IRONY BENEATH COMEDY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 48 (After Lydia's Elopement)

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STAGNATE

“Your mother will never be easy till she has exposed herself in every town in Eng…”

HYPERBOLE & CONTEMPTMARITAL DYSFUNCTION AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 41

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STAGNATE

“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in y…”

OXYMORONIC MORAL LOGICEPISTOLARY SATIRE

Mr Collins · Chapter 48 (Letter about Lydia)

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STAGNATE

“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”

METAPHOR OF CONTAMINATIONRHETORICAL QUESTION AS WEAPON

Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56

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STAGNATE

“She is a most charming young lady indeed. Lady Catherine herself says that in po…”

UNRELIABLE TESTIMONYSATIRICAL VENTRILOQUISM

Lady Catherine de Bourgh (via Mr Collins) · Chapter 14

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STAGNATE

“Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him”

PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FORESHADOWING

Wickham · Chapter 16

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STAGNATE

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured”

EPISTEMIC HUMILITY VS WILLED BLINDNESSAUSTEN'S DOUBLE-VOICED IRONY

Jane Bennet · Chapter 24

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PROGRESS

“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!”

THE LANGUAGE OF FORTUNE, NOT MERITCONTRAST WITH ELIZABETH'S JOY

Jane Bennet · Chapter 55

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STAGNATE

“Whatever I do is done in a hurry... and therefore if I should resolve to quit Ne…”

DRAMATIC FORESHADOWINGCOMIC SELF-AWARENESS

Mr Bingley · Chapter 10

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STAGNATE

“I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions,…”

TEASING AS INTIMACYINDIRECT CHARACTERISATION

Mr Bingley · Chapter 11 (Netherfield)