Situational Irony

     Jane Austen uses situational irony at this point.  You would expect that Mr. Darcy would be cold and aloof and surprises us all when he visits Elizabeth while she is alone in the house and suddenly asks her, "You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn." And all the more surprisingly is that after that he withdrew a little and was back to his usual silence.
     Shortly afterwords, Elizabeth met Colonel Fitzwilliam while walking and learns that Mr. Darcy "...congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend   from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage...". She becomes angry and immediately goes to her room and thinks of what she knows. She begins too search her sisters' letters and finds a want of happiness in them. As she was doing so, Mr.  Darcy walks in. He begins to sit and then starts pacing the room. Elizabeth is surprised, but remains silent. Below is the movie clip of what happened next:

      This is an example of situational irony because you never would have suspected that he would feel love for her. Still, you can see that he has a lot of pride, which just lost him a bride.

Introduction of Miss De Bourgh

     A Miss De Bourgh is introduced as a sickly girl with "neither figure nor face" who was "pale and sickly" and she rarely spoke, unlike her mother who spoke nearly constantly.
     Also, Mr. Darcy was expected for a course of weeks. He brought with him  Colonel Fitzwilliam, a cousin of his, who, although plain looking, was obviously a gentleman. Austen, at this point says that he had "the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly".  Lady Catherine's character is again demonstrated when she breaks into a conversation of Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth by saying,
      "What is it you are saying, Fitzwilliam? What is it you are talking of? What are you telling Miss Bennett? Let me hear what it is." 
     This again shows how 'ill-bred' Lady Catherine is. Later on, Miss Elizabeth plays the piano in a separate room and Colonel sits beside her and Mr. Darcy stands listening. When Elizabeth and the gentlemen begin conversing, there is a more comfortable tone then when Elizabeth had before spoken with Mr. Darcy. This is an example of overshadowing.

new method

       The theme of this story seems to be of a 'middle-upper class' family and their life and romances. At this point, Elizabeth visits Jane where she is in London and then goes on to Hunsford. I have already described the characters of many of the Bennetts, and some others, but I have not describes Mr. Collins thoroughly. Mr. Collins was by no means sensible. He had great humility, but that was "counteracted by him having the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected propriety." He was "a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility."The conflict is that Charlotte is married to Mr. Collins, who had formerly asked Elizabeth who utterly refused because of the character of Mr. Collins, so she did not understand why Charlotte had accepted him.

   obsequiousness-

        characterized by or showing servile compliance or deference; fawning 

        servilely compliant or deferential 

        obedient; dutiful

       Jane Austen is very good at describing emotions. For example, when Elizabeth was nearing Hunsford, Her company, and herself, Austen said  "every eye was in search of the Parsonage, and every turn expected to bring it to view..." . She also uses a great deal of irony. For example, it is very ironic that after Elizabeth absolutely refuses Mr. Collins, her best friend accepts him without knowing anything about him. Austen used a simile  to describe Maria Lucases apprehension by referring to the knighthood of her father. "such formidable accounts of her Ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas, who had been little used to company, and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings, with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at St. James's." Lady Catherine is an interesting character who never let people forget their rank. She spoke with authority and was quite impertinent. She said and asked whatever she wished. All in all, she was very prideful. Jane Austen's art in describing her characters enriches the book and makes it easy to see the image she wants you to see.

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    From now on, I am going to point out the literary elements instead of summarizing it.
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10/2

Miss Bingley sent a letter to Jane and made it final that her party would not return. Lizzie did not believe that their hinting towards never returning to Hertfordshire quite without base and meant to reduce all hope that Jane might have carried on about her relationship with Mr. Bingley, but Jane believed that Miss Bingley was only trying to be kind and considerate.Hope was as much gone for their potential marriage as was Mr. Bingley gone from Hertfordshire. Though Elizabeth tried to comfort Jane, it was in vain, for Jane had resigned herself to life without Mr. Bingley. During this time, Mr. Bingley asks Elizabeth whether she had her sights set on Mr. Whickham, to which she said "a less agreeable man would satisfy me. We must not all expect Jane's good fortune." Mr. Collins had to leave on Saturday, but was not so sad as you would think, for he had Charlotte and their being wedded together to look forward to. Mr. Gardiner, the brother of  Mrs. Bennett, visited Longbourn with his family for Christmas. Mr. Gardiner was known to be very refined, and was well educated and very gentleman-like. Mrs. Gardiner was amiable, intelligent, and elegant. As soon as the Gardiners' arrived, Mrs. Gardiner distributed presents and then spoke with the two eldest Bennetts about their current life. When Mrs. Gardiner and Elizabeth were alone, Mrs. Gardiner asked if it would be well to take Jane back with them to London, and Elizabeth instantly agreed it would be for the best. During a party when Mrs. Gardiner met Mr. Wickham. She enjoyed speaking with Mr. Whickham because they had both been raised very much in the same place. They pleased each other with their limited recollection of the place and were quite entertained by each other. The day afterwards, however, Mrs. Gardiner cautioned Elizabeth on using her better judgement if she was to continue her relationship. Elizabeth responded that she was not in love with him and it would be better for him if he wasn't in love with her, but if they did fall in love she would not discourage it. Later in the week, Mr. Collins returned and he and the Lucases prepared for the wedding of him and Charlotte. One evening, the soon-to-be-newlyweds visited Longbourn and Elizabeth and Charlotte spoke together. During their conversation, Elizabeth promised to visit Charlotte at Hunsford. They arranged for her to leave with Charlotte's father and her sister. Mr.Collins and Charlotte were married and were sent off to Kent. Elizabeth kept up correspondence with Charlotte, but it was more because of what used to be than what was. Jane writes and tells Elizabeth that she had visited Caroline and Mrs. Hurst, although they seemed 'out of temper'. After three weeks, They returned the visit and showed obvious distaste. They made it clear that the relationship was over, on which Jane said she did not suffer from. Later that week, Mrs. Gardiner inquired over Mr. Whickham and Elizabeth reported that he was engaged to a young woman in possession of 10,000 pounds.

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     The next day, Mr. Collins makes an offer of marriage to Elizabeth. As he was proposing, Elizabeth forestalled him, telling him that she did not accept and that he should go no further. Mr. Collins refused to believe this, and said that it was the custom of 'elegant women' to refuse the first or even the second time to keep the suitor in sorrow and suspense. At this Elizabeth took leave of the room. Mrs. Bennett entered immediately afterwards to compliment them on their success. When she realized that Elizabeth had refused, she immediately ran to Mr. Bennett as Elizabeth had done to get his help. As this was occurring, Mr. Collins began to think he would rather not marry  her, as she had refused him. This made Mrs. Bennett very worried.  Mr. Bennett stated, meanwhile, that he simply would not tolerate her marrying him. This made Mrs. Bennett very upset, and she implored them all to change their minds. She was destined to fail at this however. After this occurrence, Mr. Collins became acquainted with with Charlotte and began to 'love' her. In the course of three days, he had proposed to her and she had accepted him.He left the day after the arrangement. Meanwhile, Jane receives a letter from Miss Bingley saying that their party, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, M. Bingley, Miss Bingley, and Mr. Darcy, had left to London and were not expecting to come back until after the winter. Elizabeth did not believe it. It also said that Mr. Bingley was expected to soon join in matrimony with miss Darcy, which Elizabeth thought was equally preposterous.

This is where the first volume of the book has left us.

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     When Elizabeth entered the ballroom at Netherfield, she quickly gathered that Mr. Wickham was not present. She soon discovered that he had used his business to cover for his absence and suspected that he did not want to be in the house Darcy occupied.  During the ball, as she was talking to Charlotte, her dear friend, when Mr. Darcy asked for her hand. To flustered to refuse, she was forced to accept. As they were dancing, Elizabeth commented about the dance. Mr. Darcy did not oblige her in conversation. Elizabeth stated that one should speak  a little while dancing.  Elizabeth began trying to ascertain Mr. Darcy's character, at which he quickly began to admonish, saying he was not in the position for such an examination.  When Elizabeth nears the subject of Mr. Wickham, Mr Darcy becomes, in a small way, short-tempered. As Elizabeth inquired of Wickham, she could find nothing of great importance to find fault with. Mr. Collins introduces himself to Mr. Darcy, who is welcomed with surprise and wonder, which Mr. Collins seemed to have missed altogether. At dinner, Mrs.Bennett spoke obnoxiously loud about marrying off Jane to Mr. Bingley. In vain Elizabeth attempted to quiet her. Soon after this embarrassing speech(for Mr. Darcy was surely listening in), Mary sang and played, and was no delight for the listeners. After this embarrassing display, while Mary was preparing to play more, Mr. Bennett  breached etiquette and told her to " Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit". As this all occurred at Netherfield, it was with a quite ashamed attitude that Elizabeth left for home.