Elizabeth quotations✅

Pride and prejudice aqa gcse

s b h m h t b i m

She believed he might have the best informed mind

She believed he might have the best informed mind

• Shows how she values her partner being intellectual over rich or handsome

J … s

Jumping … springing

Jumping … springing

• Dynamic verbs show her carefree and wild nature

• She is at her most free outdoors

i c e f h p i h h n m m

I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine

I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine

• Shows she has pride herself

• Highlights her cynical, proud and sceptical nature

• "mortified" has connotations of humiliation and destruction

• Headstrong nature reflects her mother

t d i n w o h m

The distance is nothing when one has motive

The distance is nothing when one has motive

• Diverging from the ideal of a future wife

• Determined

• Decisive

• Method = litotes

o i o m b a t h s

Occupied in observing Mr Bingley’s attentions to her sister

Occupied in observing Mr Bingley’s attentions to her sister

• Shows she is intelligent and observant

• She cares for her sisters

p m d m i t w

Proudest most disagreeable man in the world

Proudest most disagreeable man in the world

• Shows premature judgement

• Highlights how Lizzy’s first impressions are often misleading

i a p s i m r y c n m m h

I am perfectly serious in my refusal, you could not make me happy

I am perfectly serious in my refusal, you could not make me happy

• Rational response shows how she refuses to back down to Mr Collins

• Monosyllabic “you could not make me” shows she is direct

• “Happy” highlights how happiness and compatibility are her top priorities in a marriage

w a m t r a m

What are men to rocks and mountains?

What are men to rocks and mountains?

• Rhetorical question highlights how she values nature over deceitful and arrogant men

• Social satire from Austen - linking to the Regency era’s tendency to over-romanticise natural landscapes

T m b t g f

This must be the grossest falsehood

This must be the grossest falsehood

• Lizzy is in disbelief when she hears the truth about Wickham

• In denial - shown by modal verb 'must' which implies her certainty

b p p a. h d i h a

Blind partial prejudiced absurd. How despicably I have acted!

Blind partial prejudiced absurd. How despicably I have acted!

• Listing of all her negative qualities shows how she is self-aware

• Exclamative shows her rage at acting in such an unjust way towards Darcy

• Epiphanic moment as she realises her first impressions were wrong

T t m i n k m

Till this moment, I never knew myself

Till this moment, I never knew myself

• Epiphanic, coming of age moment

• She finally sees through her first impressions of Darcy and Wickham and accepts she was wrong