LIT ESSAY QUOTES PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – Flashcards

"I am only resolved to act in that matter, which will, in my own opinion , constitute my own happiness, without reference to you, or any other person so wholly unconnected to my happiness." Elizabeth (1813) Key point 2 ==>In regard to this quote, Elizabeth Bennet indeed clarifies and implements her own beliefs and values. The protagonist, in a final spat with Lady Catherine de Bourgh, asserts her position on marrying Mr. Darcy, free from societal restrictions: => As such, Miss Bennet articulates her own role and place in society, although still only as a housewife, but a housewife that marries for love and her own values as opposed to the societally dictated "values" of wealth and a vast fortune.

Imperial dominance in which the hegemon (leader state) rules geopolitical subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force.

"As a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways women, in particular, have been oppressed, suppressed, and repressed. It asks new questions of old texts. It develops and uncovers a female tradition in writing. It analyzes women writers and their words from female perspectives..."

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves." 1792

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (P&P 1) Narrator

"...there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels." Charlotte

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" Charlotte => More a matter of financial security than love.

"Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married" Narrator (Mrs Bennett)

"...boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte's dying an old maid." but "Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous." Elizabeth (about her younger sisters)

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. -- You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so Displays her as radical and stubborn, as opposed to an elegantly presented female.

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me;"

Again, in the same quarrel with Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Miss Bennet claims, "In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere [in which I have been brought up]. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal" (Austen 258). =>In this instance, Miss Bennet claims equality with Mr. Darcy as she opposes Darcy's controlling aunt. To be equal to and have equal opportunity and rights with a man of such social ranking as Mr. Darcy is to epitomize the very cause of feminist literary criticism—to chiefly advocate for the rights and equality of women.

1. "Central to the diverse aims and methods of feminist criticism is its focus on patriarchy, the rule of society and culture by men" (Bressler 167). 2."Despite how frequently literature and society have fictionalized and stereotyped females as angels, bar maids, bitches whores, brainless housewives, or old maids, women must define themselves and articulate their roles, values, aspirations, and place in society. To do so, say feminist critics, women must...marshal a variety of resources to assert, clarify, and finally implement their beliefs and values" (Bressler 182) 3."As one of the most significant developments in literary studies in the second half of the twentieth century, feminist literary criticism advocates equal rights for all women (indeed, all peoples) in all areas of life: socially, politically, professionally, personally, economically, aesthetically, and psychologically" (Bressler 167) 4. Championed by the belief that cultural things are possible, and things do not have to stay the way they currently are.