Try to read all or as much of Part II as you can for Monday's class since you have a few extra days (and what else would you want to do, except spend all day reading Austen?!).
Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: How does
Austen satirize the upper classes in the mode of Sheridan at Rosings (with Lady Catherine de
Bourgh)? How does she treat her social inferiors--the Collins and
Elizabeth--and how might Austen be sharing Elizabeth's delight here in "anything
ridiculous"?
Q2: How does the
manner of Darcy’s proposal echo, in some particulars, that of Mr. Collins? Why
is each one incapable of a truly flattering, romantic proposal? What factors
does Darcy apparently have to overcome to express his love and affection to Elizabeth?
Q3: Why do you
think Elizabeth conceals the proposal from her
family, as well as the truth about Wickham, and only reveals her secrets to
Jane? Is she ashamed of turning down a fortune? Or is she secretly flattered? Consider
her reflection shortly after their meeting, “That she should receive an offer
of marriage from Mr. Darcy! that he should have been in love with her for so
many months! so much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the
objections...”
Q4: In Chapter
XIX, the Narrator notes that “Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own
family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity
or domestic comfort" (219). What does she notice in her own family to make
her disinclined to ever marry, or to think that love exists outside of novels?
According to the novel so far, do you think Jane Austen was of the same opinion?
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