Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

23 quotes — Pride & Prejudice (Self-Knowledge) 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

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You…”

SEMANTIC FIELD OF CONFLICT / MILITARY METAPHORSYNTACTIC FRAGMENTATION

Mr Darcy · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal)

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

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PROGRESS

“Till this moment I never knew myself”

ANAGNORISIS / EPIPHANIC MONOSYLLABLESBREVITY AS STRUCTURAL VOLTA

Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 2, Chapter 13 (After Darcy's letter)

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STAGNATE

“My good opinion once lost is lost for ever”

EPIGRAM WITH ABSOLUTIST DICTIONDRAMATIC IRONY / PROLEPTIC REVERSAL

Mr Darcy · Volume 1, Chapter 11

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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 Bennet · 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

“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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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

“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 de Bourgh · Chapter 56 (Confrontation with Elizabeth)

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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

24
REGRESS

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

ANAPHORA OF NEGATIONCOMIC DEFLATION

Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56

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STAGNATE

“Mr Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a co…”

STRATEGIC CONCESSIONUNRELIABLE NARRATOR DEVICE

Wickham · Chapter 16 (First conversation with Elizabeth)

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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

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle”

THE EXCUSE WITHIN THE ADMISSIONCONTRAST WITH DARCY'S CONFESSION

Wickham · Chapter 52 (via Lydia's account)

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STAGNATE

“He is just what a young man ought to be — sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I…”

PRESCRIPTIVE IDEALISATIONFOIL TO ELIZABETH

Jane Bennet · Chapter 4

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STAGNATE

“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I thi…”

MODAL HEDGING / ETHICAL SYNTAXBALANCED ANTITHESIS

Jane Bennet · Chapter 4

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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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STAGNATE

“Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!”

EXCLAMATORY IMPULSIVENESSFOIL TO DARCY

Mr Bingley · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)

35
STAGNATE

“I would not be so fastidious as you are... for a kingdom!”

AFFECTIONATE DIAGNOSISDRAMATIC IRONY OF THE OUTSIDER

Mr Bingley · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)

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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)