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10 Cards in this Set
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- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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First line of the novel. Narration from the prospective of Austen |
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife |
Ironic, in Georgian England in fact it is the other way around |
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Mrs Bennet to Mr Bennet on the subject of Bingley |
"A single man of large fortune; four of five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" |
Ignorant, focused purely on financial security motives for the Bennet sisters (had reason to be at the time due to entailment), shows short-sightedness |
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Mr Bennet to Mrs Bennet on the subject of her beauty |
"...for you are as handsome as any of them, Mr Bingley might like you the best of the party." |
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Mrs Bennet to Mr Bennet on the subject of beauty |
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now." |
Naïve, conceited, unaware |
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Mrs Bennet to Mr Bennet on the subject of his preference to Elizabeth |
"Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia" |
Shows Mrs Bennet's short-sightedness and blatant own preference of her daughters, Jane because she is pretty, and Lydia because she is similar to her mother. |
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Mr Bennet to Mrs Bennet on the subject of their daughters |
"They have none of them much to recommend them...they are all silly and ignorant like other girls..." |
Austen intends for the reader to judge Mr Bennet's harsh view of his daughters, although at this point he is still teasing Mrs Bennet |
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Mrs Bennet to Mr Bennet about her nerves |
"You have no compassion for my poor nerves" |
Austen means for the audience to judge Mrs Bennet's sensitivity and lack of understanding surrounding her husband and his means to "vex" her |
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Mr Bennet to Mrs Bennet on the subject of her nerves |
"I have high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends." |
Shows Mr Bennet's disregard of her feelings, although Mrs Bennet's overreactions and incessant nature was what causes Mr Bennet's disregard and indifferent nature |
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Narration on the subject of Mr Bennet's character |
[He] was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. |
Describes Mr Bennet's character, his easy disregard and constant state of indifference he goes through his life with, and Austen intends for the reader to judge Mr Bennet's character as well as to judge the severely mismatched marriage he is stuck in with Mrs Bennet |
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Narration on the subject of Mrs Bennet's character |
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper...she fancied herself nervous...business of her life was to get her daughters married |
Obviously shows Mrs Bennet's short sightedness and naïvety. However it also shows a valid concern over the welfare of her and her daughters after Mr Bennet's estate is entailed away after his death. |
