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Significance of Location in Pride and Prejudice

Significance of Location in Pride and Prejudice. Significance of Journeys. The majority of action within the story takes place indoors, centering around the Bennet household. Long journeys & short trips initiate change within the novel.

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Significance of Location in Pride and Prejudice

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  1. Significance of LocationinPride and Prejudice

  2. Significance of Journeys • The majority of action within the story takes place indoors, centering around the Bennet household. • Long journeys & short trips initiate change within the novel. • The journeys bring people together and reveal their true feelings and character within.

  3. Elizabeth visits Charlotte • While visiting Charlotte and Mr. Collins at Hunsford, Elizabeth encounters Darcy at Rosings. • This leads to Darcy’s first proposal to Elizabeth.

  4. Elizabeth visits Pemberley Elizabeth’s affection for Darcy grows as they spend time together.

  5. Search for Lydia & Wickham In the end, Darcy manages to preserve the Bennet family honor.

  6. A Guided Tour of Pride and Prejudice

  7. Hertfordshire

  8. Village of Longbourn Residence of the Bennet family

  9. Longbourn Estate • Facts • Located one mile from Meryton Village • Estate of £2000 per year • To “entail” means to leave the bulk of one’s wealth to the oldest male heir Key Events • Main place of action within Bennet Family • Mr. Collins’s visit and proposal to Elizabeth • The Gardiners visit at Christmastime • Jane gets engaged to Bingley

  10. Netherfield Park Residence of the Bingleys

  11. Netherfield Park • Facts • Mansion coveted by inhabitants of surrounding villages • Located three miles from the Longbourn Estate Key Events • Jane’s illness & extended visit • Mr. Bingley’s ball • Departure of the Bingleys & Darcy to London • Return to Netherfield to court Jane

  12. Lucas Lodge “ He had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, ... where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.”

  13. Lucas Lodge Facts • Situated one mile from Meryton Village in close proximity to Longbourn Estate • Characterized by its modest and humble appearance • Key Events • Miss Bennets visit to gossip about Meryton Ball • Mr. Collins pursues his courtship of Charlotte Lucas

  14. Meryton Village

  15. Meryton Village Key Events • Opening ball and assembly held here • The Bennet sisters make several visits to Mrs. Phillips & the militia regiment

  16. London • Largest city in 1800 • Loose morals in all levels of society • Prosperity and Squalor- Industrial Revolution • Move to suburbs • Actual street names

  17. London Key Events: • Mr. Bingley and entourage sojourn • Jane visits Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner • Lydia and Wickham’s hideout

  18. Rosings The residence of Lady Catherine de Bourgh

  19. Rosings • Lady de Bourgh’s dinner parties • Darcy and Elizabeth see each other during park walks • Elizabeth receives the letter from Darcy

  20. Hunsford Key Events: • Elizabeth visits Mr. Collins and Charlotte • Mr. Darcy frequently visits Elizabeth • Colonel Fitzwilliam rejects her • Mr. Darcy proposes Mr. Collins’s Patronage

  21. Brighton “I assure you that I dread the idea of going to Brighton as much as you do, but I am not without hopes that something may happen to prevent it.” Jane Austen to Cassandra Popular British seaside resort

  22. Brighton Key Events: • Militia from –shire camps • Lydia visits and elopes with Wickham

  23. Brighton • Seaside bathing, seawater drinking • George III in Weymouth, George IV builds Royal Pavilion • High Travel Costs

  24. The Lake Country Rugged and scenic

  25. The Lake Country One of England’s few mountainous regions

  26. The Lake Country • Called “the Lakes” • Made famous in early 1800s by William Wordsworth • Gardiners & Elizabeth familiar with his poetry

  27. Pemberley Lyme Park in the BBC version “At that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!”

  28. “Pemberley” • Lyme Park in BBC version • Seat of Legh family for 600 years • Built gradually • Now English National Park

  29. “Pemberley” • Chatsworth in new movie version • Home of Duke & Duchess of Devonshire • One of largest private homes in England • Possibly Austen’s inspiration for Pemberley, mentioned in novel

  30. “[Pemberley] possesses a character and a style of its own, representing freedom without excess, restraint without austerity, and generosity without ostentation.” -Walter Anderson

  31. PemberleyMore than an estate • Symbolic of “good” • tradition • beauty • intelligence • virtue • Comparable to Darcy: • established • tradition that cannot be purchased or intimidated • very good taste

  32. Gretna Green “I am going to Gretna Green, and if you cannot guess with who, I shall think you a simpleton...”

  33. Gretna Green’s Reputation • Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act (1753) declared that marriages between people under 21 required parental consent. • Elopers traveled to Scotland, where the age of consent was 14 for males and 12 for females. • Gretna Green was on the border and often the first village they came to, and it thus became infamous.

  34. Newcastle • Located in Northumberland in the northeast • Lydia & Wickham essentially exiled here • City of industry, new wealth St. Nicholas Cathedral Built in 1400s Lydia and Wickham

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