Pride and prejudice

Gender roles - Marriage as a women’s primary goal - Mrs Bennet

“The business of her life was to get her daughters married.”

Gender roles - economic dependence of men - Mrs Bennet

“i do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your children.”

Gender roles - social expectations of ‘proper’ female behaviour - Miss Bingley

“a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing […] she must posses a certain something in her air.”

Gender roles - Austen’s feminist undercurrent - Elizabeth

“do not consider me now as an elegant female, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

reputation - social obsession - Darcy

“the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.”

reputation - Gender inequality - mr Collins

“the death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this.”

reputation - misleading appearances - Elizabeth

“one has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

reputation - Moral growth - Elizabeth

“till this moment, i never knew myself.”

prejudice - personal - Elizabeth

“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

prejudice - class - Darcy

“could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?”

prejudice - gender - Darcy

“a lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

prejudice - overcoming prejudice - Elizabeth

“till this moment, i never knew myself.”

prejudice - overcoming prejudice - Darcy

“you are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once.”

parental role models - Faulty parents - mrs Bennet

“the business of her life was to get her daughters married.”

parental role models - faulty parents - mr Bennet

“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry mr Collins, and i will never see you again if you do.”

parental role models - ideal parental role models - Mrs Gardiner

“you are too sensible a girl, lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it.”

parental role models - ideal parental role models - mr Gardiner

“mr Gardiner readily promised every assistance in his power.”

Pride - barrier to relationships - Darcy

“could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?”

pride - snobbery and arrogance - lady Catherine

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

pride - Irony and satire as social critique - Collins

“i am happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always acceptable to ladies.”

pride - character development - Darcy initial

“she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

pride - character change - Darcy changed

“you are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once.”

wealth and money - marriage motivation - Darcy

“could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?”

wealth and money - social hierarchy - Darcy

“the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.”

wealth and money - character insight - lady Catherine

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

wealth and money - systemic critique - Mrs Bennet, entailment

“I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your children.”

wealth and money - systemic critique - Mrs Bennet, business of marriage

“the business of her life was to get her daughter’s married.”

TIOM - narrator

“it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

TIOM - Elizabeth

“that would be the greatest misfortune of all- to find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!”

TIOM - charlotte, reality of life

“but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

TIOM - charlotte, pragmatic view

“it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person whom you are to pass your life.”

TIOM - charlotte, objectifying marriage

“when she is secure of him, there will be leisure for falling in love.”

TIOM - Collins, choosing his wife

“Mr collins appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife.”

love and relationships - Darcy and Bingley

“A very steady friendship, in spite of a great opposition of character.”

love and relationships - D/E prejudice against her family’s connections

”Darcy had never been so bewitched by any women as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.”

love and relationships - D/E Elizabeth not wanting Darcy to like her

”he shall not be in love with me, if I can prevent it.”

love and relationships - D/E Darcy showing restraint

“he wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him.”

love and relationships - D/E Elizabeth feelings changing

“how could i ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love.”

love and relationships - D/E Elizabeth regretting saying no to Darcy

“I might have been mistress! […] I should not have been allowed to invite them.”

love and relationships - D/E Darcy liking Elizabeth

“‘Good god! What is the matter?’ Cried he, with more feeling than politeness.”

love and relationships - Jane and Bingley

“pray, how violent was Mr Bingley’s love.”

love and relationships - Mr/Mrs Bennet Elizabeth’s epiphany

“she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages, which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage.”

love and relationships - Mr/Mr Benent money in relationships

”her husband’s love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.”

love and relationships - Elizabeth and charlotte

“between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint in which kept them mutually silent on the subject.”

love and relationships - Wickham and Lydia

“how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”