P& P #9 3/31: 14-18

"There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much" (Austen 210).

-Mr. Wickham as revealed through Mr. Darcy's letter as a bad person, who masks his ugly soul with a visage, a pretense. While Darcy is actually a generally thoughtful person, he actually cares for his friends, which can be seen in his friendship with Mr. Bingley. These two characters are oppisites on a spectrum. And we see that at the beginning of the book, Elizabeth liked Mr. Wickham, and correspondingly she was a very prejudice person, making inferences and judgements without the facts. But as the story continues, Elizabeth becomes aware of Mr. Wickham's true nature, and we begin to see that she begins to fluctuate in her liking of Mr. Wickham and Mr. Darcy. At the same time, she is struggling to cope with the fact that she is actually a prejudice person, "She was still full of indignation [for Mr. Darcy]; but when she considered how unjustly she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against herself" (200). Thus these two characters are in essence like the modern day's equivalent of the little angel and demons that sit on our shoulders. She is stuck in between choosing the devil, Mr Wickham, or the angel, Mr. Darcy.

Why does Elizabeth not tell Jane about Mr. Darcy's reasoning for persuading Mr. Bingley to break his relations with Jane?

a. Elizabeth believes her sister to be to nimwitted to understand
b. Elizabeth is afraid that Mr. Darcy wanted to keep it private
c. Elizabeth thinks Jane does not care.
d. Elizabeth is afraid that it will only hurt Jane.

P& P #7 3/27: 6-10

"If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause of all that Jane had suffered and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted" (Austen 177).

- Here Elizabeth is communicating her anger about Mr. Darcy breaking the union between Mr. Bingley and Jane. This incident just adds to her hate for Mr. Darcy seeing that she blames him for breaking her sister's heart. This only makes Mr. Darcy's situation worse, due to the fact that he admires Elizabeth, but Elizabeth absolutely hates him. And Mr. Darcy, not knowing how angry she is at him, will most likely try to do something to show his affection for her, which will result with her rejecting him, as well as her vehemently criticizing his actions and his personality.

Question:
Elizabeth feelings for Colonel Fitzwilliam are:

I. contempt
II. adoration
III. similar to how she felt about Mr. Wickham

a. I
b. II
c. III
d. II and III
e. none of the above

Pride and Prejudice 6 chapter 2-5

"she parted from him convinced, that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing" (Austen 146).

Here, Elizabeth states that though they have gone their seperate ways, Mr Wickham will always serve as the model of what she finds appealing and nice. And she says this after she was convinced that she had "never been much in love" (144). But if she had not been in love, why does she use him as model for "what she finds appealing and nice"(146). She even said before that "there are few whom I love really love, and still fewer of whom I think well"(131), so obviously she must have had great intimacy for him if she still holds him as a model to judge other people. So obviously she had great esteem for him yet she insists that she was not. And the reason maybe that she is forced to face the fact that she was wrong about him when she first met him. She had thought him to be a good man, but now she has to face the reality that he in many ways is like Charlotte, a mercenary. So instead of facing the truth, she goes into denial and thinks instead that he is just someone that she had fancied.

What does this quote imply about Mr. Collins: "When Mr. Collins could be forgotten, there was really a great air of comfort throughout, and by Charlotte's evident enjoyment of it, Elizabeth supposed he must be often forgotten" (151).

a. Mr. Collins is amiable

b. Mr. Collins is very exciting

c. Mr. Collins is a vexing person

d. Mr. Collins is an abusive husband

e. Mr. Collins is interesting

P and P #5: Ch.21-1

"You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if i speak ill of any body. I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it" (Austen 130).

-Here, Elizabeth is acknowledging one of Jane's faults, saying that she is to optimistic, and to often looks to find the good in others. But the irony is that Elizabeth is the exact oppisite, she is too quick to judge, and often times to judge others in a negative light: "There are few people whom I really love, and fewer of whom I think well" (131). And Elizabeth prejudice, like Jane's optimism, often time blinds her from the truth. Thus Elizabeth is just as far from the truth as Jane is.

While talking to Jane about "her belief in the inconsistency of all human characters" (131), Elizabeth says, "I have met with two instances lately: one I will not mention, the other is charlottes marriage" (131). Who is Elizabeth refering to when she says "one I will not mention" (131)?

a. Mr Collins

b. Mr Darcy

c. Mrs. Bennet

d. Ms Bingley

e. Mr Bingley

P& P #3 3.20: 11-16

"And your defect is a propensity to hate every body" (Austen 56).

- Here we see Elizabeth states what she believes to be a  defect of Mr. Darcy, saying that he has the propensity to dislike everyone. This view is a very judgemental view of Darcy, showing that Ms. Elizabeth is a person that judges people from first impressions which is very defect that is typical for any age or time. Even Mr. Darcy responds by saying, "And yours is to wilfully to misunderstand them"(56). Jane Austen thus is providing an example of one of the problems with society. This judgemental attitude Elizabeth has could prove to hamper her throughout the book due to her fast judgements of people including Mr. Darcy.

This passage, "Jane and Elizabeth attempted to explain to her the nature of an entail. They had often attempted it before: but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennett was beyond the reach of reason" (60), serves to show that Mrs. Bennett is

a. very tired

b. very intelligent

c. not understanding

d. not very intelligent

P& P #2 3/19: 7-10

"Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Bennet would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alamring, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remover her from Netherfield" (Austen 41).

- Here the reader is exposed to one of the strange parts of society in the 1700s. Here Mrs. Bennett shows no grievances that her daughter is ill, but instead finds joy that she is sick due to the fact that Jane is given the opportunity to stay at Mr. Bingley's estate longer. And she hopes the longer Jane stays the more likely she will win over the heart of Mr. Bingley. Mrs. Bennett's strange infatuation in her daughter finding someone to marry is not solely experienced by her, but by the majority of the women in this book. And Jane Austen is clearly outlining how strange this interest women have in getting married through Mrs. Bennett and her eagerness in seeing her daughter become sick in order to spend more time with a man that she hopes Jane will marry.

The book Pride and Prejudice, is a story that challenges commonly held beliefs of the 1700s.

The arthur voices her disbelief in these beliefs through:

I. the protagonist, Elizabeth

II. Mrs. Bennett

III. Mr. Jones

A. I Only

B. II Only

C. III Only

D. I and II

E. II and III

Huck 185-209

"You could see it was a great satisfaction to the people, because naturally they wanted to know. A little thing like that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked. There warn't no more popular man in town than what tha undertaker was" (195).

-The little things often times does bring great satisfaction. Most of the time people do not have time to really focus or pay attention to the small details. So often times we go after those small details or information that somebody knows because it is something that just intrigues us. For example gossip or that small story about something funny that happened that day is often something that people like to know not because it has any great relevance, but its just something to make the day a bit funnier.

"I thought them poor girls and them niggers would break their hearts for grief'; they cried around each other, and took on so it most made me down sick to see it. The girls said they hadn't ever dreamed of seeing the family seperated or sold away from the town. I can't ever get it out of my memory, the sight of them poor miserable girls and niggers hanging around each other's necks and crying; and I reckon I couldn't a stood it all but would a had to bust out and telll on our gang if I hadn;t knowed the sale warn't no account and the niggers would be back home in a week or two"(196).

- Here the reader is exposed to the loving and compassionate side of Huck. And the reader can get the feeling that Huck for all the hard ships he has encounterd, he is at heart a good kid for he even claims that "the sight of them poor miserable girls and niggers hanging around each other's necks and crying" to be a very strong image that haunts him. So we see that his compassionate side is very strong in his life. This probably is due to him being able to relate with them seeing that he has endured so much at such a young age. His compassion will most likely play a very prominent role in his developement from a boy to a man.

Vocab:

Histrionic: Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected

"Don't ever tell me any more that a nigger ain't got any histrionic talent" (197).

Frock: A one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice

She said she'd have her frocks and a lot of other traps took out of her room if they was in Uncle Harvey's way" (184).