Actual lizzie quotes

• ‘Scampering about the country’

  ‘Six inches deep in mud’

  ‘Alone, quite alone’

  ‘She looked almost wild’

  • Animalistic, bestial imagery
  • Alarmed exclamations
  • Mocking tone
  • Women supposed to be accompanied
  • Elizabeth presented as independent + self sufficient
• ‘I love him. He has no improper pride.’

  • Solidifies self knowledge
  • Allows herself to be emotional and honest about love
  • Contrasts ‘proudest’ tone of devotion
• ‘Proudest most disagreeable man in the world.’

  • ‘Disagreeable’ - critical disapproving adjective
  • Judgemental negative tone
  • Hyperbolic absolute
• ‘I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine.’

  • Stubborn, offended tone
  • ’Mortified’ - Wounded, emotive verb
  • Harsh alliterate consonence
  • Simple, straightforward adverb
  • Men at ball expected to dance if lady not was not ‘engaged.’
• ‘She has a sharp tongue and tendency to make nasty judgement.’

  • Austen presents Lizzie as a protagonist
  • Focaliser through stubborn, offended response to Mr Darcy’s arrogant verbal attack
• ‘How despicable I have acted.’’ ‘In this moment I never knew myself,’

  • Alarmed intensified ‘now’
  • Ability to criticise her own naïvety symbolises self knowledge
  • Abhorrent adverb - villainises
  • Dynamic character
  • Epiphany moment
• ‘She had been blind, partial, prejudiced absurd.’

  • Intrusive narrator
  • Austen exposes protagonists unfair prejudice + naïvety
• ‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance’

  • Charlotte’s cold unemotional aphorism about marriage contrasts Elizabeths feminist, openminded views of it
• ‘You make me laugh Charlotte but it is not sound.’

  • Character foil