Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

13 quotes — Gender & Female Agency 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 · Volume 3, Chapter 15

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STAGNATE

You are mistaken, Mr Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration aff…

FORMAL REGISTER AS WEAPONPARALLELISM & ANTITHESIS

Elizabeth · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal Refusal)

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STAGNATE

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the wil…

DECLARATIVE SELF-CHARACTERISATIONPROLEPTIC IRONY

Elizabeth · Chapter 31

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PROGRESS

You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I w…

SEMANTIC FIELD OF EDUCATIONPASSIVE VOICE AS SURRENDER

Mr Darcy · Chapter 58 (Second Proposal)

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STAGNATE

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me

LITOTES / DAMNING UNDERSTATEMENTDRAMATIC IRONY / GENERATIVE INSULT

Mr Darcy · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)

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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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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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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

My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every cler…

ENUMERATION / CATALOGUE STRUCTUREDRAMATIC IRONY / COMIC BATHOS

Mr Collins · Chapter 19 (Proposal to Elizabeth)

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STAGNATE

Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effec…

BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTAUSTEN'S SATIRICAL LENS

Mr Collins · Chapter 19

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STAGNATE

I have been used to have my opinion consulted in all matters. I am not in the ha…

IMPERATIVE ABSOLUTISMDRAMATIC IRONY — THE FAILED INTERVENTION

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56 (Confrontation with Elizabeth)

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REGRESS

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You d…

ANAPHORA OF NEGATIONCOMIC DEFLATION

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56