Lizzie Quotes

• ‘ Her manners were pronounced to be very bad.’

  • Free indirect speech
  • Character doesn’t fit traditional femininity
• ‘Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that if it were not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.’

  • Adjective ‘bewitched’ - implies Darcy cannot look away from Lizzie, as if there is something magical about her
  • Almost blames Lizzie for manipulating him into something so beneath him
  • Still believes that love should it be based on class - falling for someone less superior to him is wrong, almost impossible
• ‘Cheerful prognostics of a bad day‘

  • Oxymoronic - shows how desperate Mrs Bennet is for a connection between Jane and Mr Bingley
  • Significance placed on marriage
  • ‘Prognostics’ - language seems a little too technical for Mrs Bennet’s vocab - implies high level of intelligence? Ironic of Austen
  • Contrast with Elizabeth being concerned for Jane - foil
• Elizabeth ‘is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own.’
• Response: ‘’There is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.” Miss Bingley was not so entirely satisfied with this reply as to continue with the subject.’
• ‘I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine.’
• ‘No stile, no taste, no beauty… nothing to be recommended to her.’
• ‘She declared her resolution.’

  ‘The distance is nothing.’

  ‘I shall be back by dinner.’
• ‘It is settled between us already that we are to be the happiest couple in the world.’
• ‘An abominable sort of conceited independence.’
• ‘But Lizzy has something more quickness than her sisters.’
• ‘A lively playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.’
• ’Jumping over styles and springing over the puddles with impatient activity.’