The characters

The Bennet’s

Mr. Bennet

Mr. Bennet is a well-educated man, but it seems like he has choosen wrong in his marriage. He doesn’t care that much about getting his daughters married, as his wife does. Mr. Bennet is a good-hearted, kind and smart man, but he likes Lizzi (Elizabeth) better than his other daughters. This is a problem for the four other girls in the Bennet family. 

Mrs. Bennet

Mrs. Bennet is a selfish and frivolous lady who only cares about talking gossip and getting her five daughters married. She knows everything best and are not afraid to tell other people what she thinks about them. Elizabeth and Jane are embarrassed of their mother. 

Jane Bennet

Jane Bennet is the oldest of the five girls in the Bennet family. She is a beautiful, good-hearted and sweet girl who only thinks well about other people. Jane has a good and peaceful soul and are quit to defend the people she cares about when other talks bad about them. Jane and Elizabeth care a lot about each other and are like best friends.

Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet is the main-character in the book. She is smart, lovely and attractive. Elizabeth, who is also nicknamed Lizzy, is the second oldest girl in the Bennet family. She thinks she is analysing other people well, but is very often mistaken. Her first impression about Mr. Darcy is that he was an arrogant and very pride, rich man. Her analyse was wrong, and she fall in love with him. Elizabeth places little value on money and social position. This makes her totally different from her mother. Lizzy and Jane have other value in life, and Elizabeth is very good to choose between right and wrong in life.  

Mary Bennet

Mary Bennet is the middle child in the Bennet family. She is a quiet and plain looking girl who likes to play the piano and read books. Mary also likes to teach morality.  

Catherine Bennet

Catherine Bennet, who is also nicknamed Kitty, is the second youngest of the Bennet sisters. She follows her little sister, Lydia, and are starting to be a shadow of her.

Lydia Bennet

Lydia Bennet is the youngest girl in the Bennet family. She is her mother’s favourite. Lydia is a flirty girl who never has had to deal with consequences of her action. She is marrying Mr. Wickham and is very pride of the marriage.

The Bingley’s

Mr. Bingley

Mr. Bingley is the brother of Caroline Bingley and Mrs. Hurst. He is Darcy’s best friend. Mr. Bingley is down to earth and doesn’t put much attention on social positions. He falls in love with Jane Bennet and wants to marry her. His sisters are not that happy about his choice.  

Louisa Hurst

Mrs. Hurst is Mr. Bingley’s sister. She is very pride of being married to Mr. Hurst. Mrs. Hurst cares much about social status and doesn’t like the Bennet family.

Caroline Bingley

Caroline Bingley is a very pride and arrogant lady. She can’t stand Elizabeth Bennet or any other of the Bennet’s sisters. Caroline want’s Mr. Darcy for herself. She is talking gossip and can’t stand Mrs. Bennet.

Mr. Collins

Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet’s cousin. He adores Elizabeth Bennet, but she doesn’t accept his hand. Mr. Collins is going to inheritance his cousin’s house. His patroness is Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Mr. Collins askes Charlotte Lucas to marry him.  

The Darcy’s

Mr. Darcy

Mr. Darcy is Mr. Bingley’s best friend, brother of Georgiana and nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Mr. Darcy is very wealthy. He has an extreme class-consciousness that makes him appear very vain and proud. Mr. Darcy finds Elizabeth Bennet very attractive, and even ideal, but he is clumsy in expression his feelings for her. Elizabeth doesn’t like his pride and arrogant behaviour. She makes him open his eyes and learns to see people for who they are- not depending of witch class they were born into.  Underneath his arrogant and pride attitude, he is a romantic and carful man.

Georgiana Darcy

Georgiana Darcy is Mr. Darcy’s younger sister. She is a shy and good-spirit girl. Elizabeth Bennet and Georgiana become good friends when they finally meet. Poor Georgiana has a bad and scandalous history with Mr. Wickham. 

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an arrogant, pride and domineering lady who can’t tolerate anyone from the middle class.  She want’s Mr. Darcy to marry her daughter.

Ann de Bourgh

Ann de Bourgh is a sickly young woman. Her mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, intends Mr. Darcy to marry her.

Colonel Fitzwilliam

Colonel Fitzwilliam is Mr. Darcy’s cousin and Georgianas guardian. He is a good and kind man.

The Gardiner’s

Mr. Gardiner

Mr. Gardiner is Mrs. Bennet’s brother He is a successful man who is warm-hearted and kind. He is different from his sister and does not pay much attention to different social positions. 

Mrs. Gardiner

Mrs. Gardiner is Mrs. Bennet’s sister-in-law. She is a kind, intelligent and caring lady. Mrs. Gardiner is very caring for Elizabeth. 

Colonel Foster

Colonel Foster is the leader of Mr. Wickham’s regiment. He arranges a lot of parties and wants everyone to have a good time.

Mrs. Philips

Mrs. Philips is Mrs. Bennets silly sister. She gossip even more then Mrs. Bennet herself.          

Charlotte Lucas

Charlotte Lucas is one of Elizabeth’s best friends. She is quiet and can’t make up her mind. Charlotte is marrying Mr. Collins. Not for love, but for secure. 

Mr. Wickham

Mr. Wickham is an officer in the local military regime. He appears like a kind and careful man, but he is not. Mr. Wickham is a liar, hypocrite and an opportunist. He doesn’t care about the reputation of the young girls, so he is very selfish.  Mr. Wickham likes Elizabeth Bennet and changes her mind about Mr. Darcy so that she thinks badly about him and likes Mr. Wickham. He creates untrue stories about Mr. Darcy. When Elizabeth discovers that he has lied, she adores Mr. Darcy even more.

Written by Katharina

Map

Made by Hanna

The language

The novel is written by Jane Austin, he published the book in 1813. It is a long time ago the book was written; therefore from a teenager’s point of view I can say that the language is quite old and difficult.

The book is written in a very formal form. Many words and expressions are used that most people today don’t know the meaning of. There are also a few words you wont find in the dictionary as well. 

The book does also have a lot of dialogues between the main characters and also some letters. This makes it more easy to understand and does also help the reader to understand what each person thinks.

By reading this dialog you will soon understand that it was not written in this century.

*I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza.

- That you certainly shall.

(From Pride and prejudice, page 132)

GRAMMAR

Shall and will are both modal verbs in English used to express propositions about the future.

Will is typically used in all persons to express simple futurity:

*I will grow old some day.

*Will they be here tomorrow?

Shall can also be used for this purpose in the first person (with "I" and "we"), and this usage has been presented as compulsory by some prescriptivist grammarians of English:

*I shall grow old some day.

*We shall all grow old some day.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_and_will)

Shall is used in a more formal way, today the will form I used the most. In the book you can hardly find the will-form. Even in the movie you will soon notice that the English that is spoken is very formal, and unlike the English we speak today.

Even though it is a bit difficult book, it is worth reading it. You will definitely learn some new words and expressions, and it is also interesting too see how the English language has change the last two hundred years.

Written by Lava

Comperanse with the real world

In the book “Pride and Prejudice” it is a lot of different conflicts between different characters. If we match the conflict in the book to the conflicts in today’s society, we can see that it is much alike. For example the conflict between Mr. Wickham and Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy figured out that Mr. Wickham had an afar with his sister. The conflict and relationship between them is build up on hate, anger and lies. In today’s modern society many conflicts and relationships are build up on that. It is not unusual to have an afar. Yet it is more “normal” to have an afar today compared to before.

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are two total different people, and they are not agreed on much. But still the marriage is working. Compered to today, two persons who are in a turbulent marriage would probably get a divorce faster than you can blink. The reason for that is that it no longer is a shame to get a divorce. On the 18^th century a divorce was not something you talk loud about. Today it is basically no shame in it at all.

Mr. Collins is a cousin to the five Bennet sisters. He first proposes to Elizabeth Bennet. He tries to do that two times, but get a no both times. After that he moves on to all the other sisters. He gets a no from everybody. Today if a man proposed to one in the family, it would not been well received if he moved to the next one in the family. These kinds of actions were tolerated in the 18^th century.

An important part of the story is that Elizabeth not gets the bested first impression of Mr. Darcy. That is something that is exactly the same today. The first impression is what sets the standard. So in so many years this is something that defiantly not has change and it will probably not do so in the nearest future.       

Written by Elisabeth

Pride and prejudice- our opinions

I like the book “Pride And Prejudice” very much. Jane Austen has written a good, legendary book about love, pride, prejudice and different rolls. Her way to write is classical, all though the language is a bit difficult. I think, and also believe, that her book has been a lot of people’s motto the last years. The themes in the book are timeless and just adorable.

My opinion is that the different rolls are the conflicts between people; mother- daughters, husband-wife, boy-girl, upper-class – middle-class. All of these things can be applied to our life in 2012 as well. A good and wealthy image was much more important, though. At least- that’s what is seems like when I read this in the 2012.

This book caught me. I was really fascinated when I read it and I believe I will keep the themes in my heart forever. This book is just good in every ways. The upper-class boy falls in love with the middle-class girl- who is neither the prettiest nor the most popular. But, she is kind, smart and lovely. All this values tells the world, or at least the people who have read the book, that beauty in the soul is more important than the way of looking. Who you are, and of course your personality, are what matters.  I love the moral in the book “Pride And Prejudice”. I will recommend this book to almost everybody; young and old, women and men. Because I think everybody will enjoy the story and learn a lot if they allow themselves to open their hearts for the meaning of the story.  

Written By Katharina

I liked the book quite well. At first thought I wouldn´t be able to finish the book, the language was difficult to understand. I honestly must say that I did not understand the first part of the book, I had to search the plot of the book on the internet. After reading many summaries and watching some clips at YouTube I finally began to understand much more.

<< Dictionary addicted>>

Without the dictionary by my side I would not have understood anything, there were to many words that I had not heard of before. I used way to much time reading and understanding a chapter, than I normally would do.

The movie was a big help, without the movie I would not have understood the plot as well as now. I red the book before I watched the movie, which I something I regret. If I had watched the move first I would have understood the book even better, but I have learned that I won’t do the same mistake next time.

- A good book!

I think that this book is very nice and learnful for someone who has a big interest for English. It is difficult, but as I said; it is a lot to learn. You have to be very patient and a very clever thing to do is read a little bit about the book.

It was a nice book, and I liked it because I kept getting surprised. The unexpected happened all the time, and the plot changed from chapter to chapter. I always wanted to know what would happen next.

Written by Lava

The original book!

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular books written by Jane Austen. The book was written around 1813. Jane Austen died 41 years old. The book consists of 64 chapters. The language can be a bit hard to understand, while the book is so old. The language has changed a bit since 1813. The story in the book was different from the standard way of behave on the start at the 1800. That is the reason that the book was so ordinary when it came.

Personally I liked the book. It was hard to separate the different characters in the beginning. It is so many character and they think, speak and behave differently. After 25 chapters I started to understand the Bennet family and all the different people they meet. A big part of the book is Elizabeth, the main-characters, live and intention. Elizabeth is the reason that I love Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth likes to make her own decisions. She wants to live her own life.

There have been made a lot of movies about the book. BBC has made a serie about the book. BBC’s TV-series are in 6 pieces and is one of the best films I have ever seen.  The film from BBC is the reason to my fascination about the book. The film makes out the persons in the book in a formidable way.

Every woman and girl will recognize themselves in Elizabeth Bennet. Pride and Prejudice are therefor, as I interpret it, a book for modern women. There are a lot of Pride and Prejudice fan clubs around the world. Pride and Prejudice is one of the 1001 books you have to read (according to the list “1001 book you have to read before you die”). If you haven’t read Pride and Prejudice already, start now!

Written by Hanna

Pride and prejudice is the ultimatum love story. It’s all about to people starting out not liking each other at all and ends up married.

I really did like pride and prejudice. The book did not have any very exciting climaxes; from the start it was pretty obvious who was going to get married with whom, because it is such a cliché.  But at the same time the story was so pretty and so nice that you just got to love it.

The characters were described in such god way that it were easy to imagine who they would have been I real life. All of the little conflicts in between throughout the book did make me so curious that I just had to keep reading.                     

Written by Elisabeth