Pride and Prejudice

Mrs. Bennet says Lydia should come back and get married, however, Mr. Bennet doesn't what everyone to think down upon them and believes they should get married in London and then come home married so they dont get a bad name.

Elisabeth is appalled and saddened, whereas Jane - who cannot think ill of anybody - hopes they will find something in common. She also tries to convince Lizzie that Charlotte must have some feelings for Collins, otherwise she wouldn't have married him.

It is clear to Elizabeth that Miss Bingley is interested in Darcy. She has ideas about what might attract him to her, and much of what she says and does is aimed at getting him interested. Darcy, however, is unmoved, and responds with indifference bordering on rudeness. Since Elizabeth dislikes both Darcy and Miss Bingley, and since she enjoys observing people who are self important or silly, she finds this amusing.

There is an important point in Pride and Prejudice when Elizabeth is made to investigate her own errors. This happens as she reads and rereads the letter Mr. Darcy has written her. In the course of her review of herself, she realizes she has been prejudiced, that her ability to understand the natures of people was not nearly as good as she thought it was, and that she had lacked justice in her dealings with people. In terms of her relationships, she comes to realize that Mr. Darcy is a much better man than she had thought, and that Wickham was, in fact, a fraud.

irony and point of view

When Elizabeth first meets Mr. Darcy she quickly decides that he is a very proud, ill mannered man. After her first meeting with him she looks for any reason to think ill of him and always assumes the worst because she developed a prejudice against him.

Elizabeth still doesn't like him (she still thinks he's proud and a bad person for taking away Wickham's living) but she can't exactly yell at him or publicly make a scene.

Kitty and Lydia reveal to Lizzy that Wickham is not to marry Mary King after all, and is, therefore, in their words, safe.

Darcy is described as having an income of 10,000 pounds per year. This means his income is twice that of Bingley, and five times that of Mr. Bennet, Lizzy's father. To understand what this means, consider: A typical agricultural worker earned about 50 pounds per year. In Sense and Sensibility, the three Dashwood girls lived with their mother on an income of 500 pounds per year, which was a hardship because they were used to being wealthy, but they did have two servants. A typical attorney earned about 650 pounds per year. About 1000 pounds per year was necessary to have a coach - partly because having a coach implied hiring a driver, a stable hand, and possibly at least one other man to tend the coach.

Mr. Collins marries Charlotte Lucas, Jane and Elizabeth's friend.

Yes. It is part of the Literary Canon.

Pride and Prejudice is full of humor and a romantic approach to falling in love. It portrays the flaws of the social system without much comment beyond acknowledgement that they are there, and it portrays people in a way that is warm hearted without denial of their flaws.

It is gently satirical. It is ironic, but not sarcastic. It portrays certain people as ridiculous, especially Mr. Collins, Caroline Bingley, and Lady Catherine, and it portrays Mr. and Mrs. Bennet as somewhat neglectful and foolish in the ways they raise their daughters. But it also portrays the good sides of some of these same people. For example, the reasons Charlotte marries Mr. Collins seem wrong to Elizabeth, but it is explicitly noted that he is not vicious, is respectable, and can provide for and protect his wife. Mr. Wickham is perhaps the only person who might be described as wicked.

Lizzy, the heroine, is foolish in some of the ways she approaches life, even as she studies the follies of others. Nevertheless, the novel is partly about how she learns she is wrong and what she does about it. Jane, her sister, is kind hearted and perhaps a bit naive, though we suspect she also might have grown in understanding. These are people the readers can appreciate and love, people the readers might wish they could know.

Jane bennet--he danced with her twice while he danced with every other person there once

Mr Gardiner goes fishing at Pemberly with Darcy, he'd also read, hunt etc.

Mr. Gardiner was Mrs. Bennet's brother, as very prosperous London tradesman. Mrs. Gardiner spent a very happy part of her childhood in Lambton, a town in Derbyshire near Darcy's estate of Pemberly. The Gardiners invited Elizabeth to go to Derbyshire with them, and it was on this trip that she saw Pemberly, met Darcy again, and discovered she had misjudged his character.

Elizabeth is very surprised to discover Darcy went to Lydia's wedding, enough so that when she found Lydia could not honorably give details, she wrote her aunt Gardiner. I Lizzy's imagination, Darcy would be very unlikely to want to have anything to do with a family that was not only below his station, but blighted with scandal.

Lydia and Wickham go first to Longbourne to visit her family. After the visit, they go to Newcastle, where Wickham is to join a regiment in which he has a commission.

Darcy's claim was that he separated them because he saw Bingley had a partiality for Jane unlike any Darcy had seen in him before but he did not detect in her any symptom of peculiar regard. Interpreted a bit for the modern person, this means that he was afraid Jane really did not love Bingley, and wanted to separate the two before Bingley was so deeply in love that he would be hurt. Marrying a woman who really did not care about him would certainly have been worse than unrequited love, but either was to be avoided.

Following this assertion, Darcy talked of the family's want of connection, the situation of Mrs. Bennet's family, the want of propriety betrayed by both parents and all three of the younger sisters. He asserted that any connection with such a family would have been most unhappy.

ghost

Georgiana did not elope with Wickham. She intended to elope, but her plans were discovered accidentally before she could do it. Her reason for wanting to elope was that she loved him and clearly was talked into deciding to do it by Wickham, possibly with a little help from Mrs. Younge.

Wickham is a fortune hunter, a man who is looking for a woman who can supply him with money. Elizabeth cannot provide this, so he has to look elsewhere.

He is attracted to Elizabeth at least partly, we would believe, because Elizabeth is a pretty, lively, and intelligent young woman. The problem he has with her is that she has very little money, so she is not a suitable match. Still, being friendly with her has the advantage of giving him greater access to society.

He quickly attaches himself to Mary King. She is a possible mate because she has ten thousand pounds. This is enough money to provide a living, though not enough for him to afford a carriage.

Elizabeth finds out in the middle of the novel that Wickham has tried to elope with Mr. Darcy's sister, Georgiana, who has a fortune of thirty thousand pounds. Subsequent conversations between her and Wickham reveal more and more of what she knows of him. This causes him to become more and more separated form her.

When his affair with Lydia has gone through the elopement and marriage, and Wickham and Elizabeth are brought together once more, it becomes obvious to him that she knows all about him, and he seems no longer interested in talking with her. His elopement had been done, the book says, without any intention of marriage. Clearly, his intention was to leave Lydia and find someone like Mary King, with money, but the price was paid by Darcy for him to marry Lydia.

Ummm I am not sure it could be any chapter. His feelings were not revealed to the readers. We don't know how far back his love went!

Darcy to elizabeth= prejudice, poor, inferiority, lack of connections, and family besides her and Jane being improper, uncivility, doubt i got them all

elizabeth to darcy= too much pride, selfish, being in Jane/bingleys relationship too much, inflicted poverty upon wickham, arrogance, conceit, selfish disdain, and others probably, i doubt i got them all

Mrs. Gardiner is concerned that Elizabeth might fall in love with Wickham because neither has any money, and neither have any great inheritance coming. The result of this is if they married, they would have to live on Wickham's income from the army, which would probably not be very great. The result would be that they would have to live much more frugally than Elizabeth had ever done.