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Home is Where the Humility Isn't. An analysis of the function of place in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. by Carolyn P. Henly Meadowbrook H.S. Richmond, VA. The Locales. The events of Pride and Prejudice roam over a large area of England, as shown in this map. Roaming.
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Home is Where the Humility Isn't An analysis of the function of place in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
by Carolyn P. Henly Meadowbrook H.S. Richmond, VA
The Locales The events of Pride and Prejudice roam over a large area of England, as shown in this map.
Roaming . . . Elizabeth and Darcy meet in three different counties over the course of the book, and it is only because of their traveling that they are finally able to come to terms with their love for each other.
Roaming . . . Hertfordshire is the county in which Longbourn, the Bennet family home is located. Darcy comes there to visit, and there he first meets Elizabeth.
Darcy about Elizabeth: “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.” (7)(8)
Elizabeth about Darcy: “. . . And I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” (13)(15)
Darcy on Elizabeth: “My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.” (19)(22)
Elizabeth on Darcy: “I had not thought Mr. Darcy so bad as this--though I have never liked him. . . But did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this!” (60-61)(69)
Roaming . . . Elizabeth and Darcy next meet in Kent, at Rosings, the home of Darcy’s aunt, Lady Catherine deBourgh.
Darcy to Elizabeth: “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” (142)(162)
Elizabeth to Darcy: “From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry!” (145)(166)
Darcy to Elizabeth: “Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers, which were last night so disgusting to you. I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes, which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten.” (147)(168)
Elizabeth in response to the letter: “How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I, who have prided myself on my discernment!--I , who have valued myself on my abilities! Who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable distrust--How humiliating is this discovery! . . . Pleased by the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself!” (156)(178)
Roaming . . . Elizabeth and Darcy first meet again after the rejected proposal in Derbyshire, at Pemberley, Darcy’s family home.
Elizabeth about Darcy: “How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow!--How much of good or evil must be done by him! Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character, and as she stood before the canvas on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.” (185)(212)
The Journey Back to Longbourn Elizabeth and Darcy return to Elizabeth’s home separately--and for very different reasons.
Elizabeth about Darcy: “She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. . . . She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. “What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago would now have been gladly and gratefully received.” (232)(265-66)
Darcy to Elizabeth: “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My feelings and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.” (274)(314)
Elizabeth to Darcy: “ . . .immediately gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.” (274)(315)
Initial meeting at ball. • Jane’s illness at Netherfield. • Meeting with Wickham. • Ball at Netherfield.
Visits to Rosings • Meeting with Col. Fitzwilliam • Marriage proposal • Darcy’s letter
Meeting with housekeeper • Meeting with the Gardiners • Meeting with Georgiana • Word of Lydia’s elopement
Discovery of Darcy’s role in Lydia’s marriage • Meeting with Lady Catherine de Bourgh • Bingley’s proposal to Jane • Darcy’s second proposal
Comfort Home field advantage Objectivity Disadvantage
Credits This PowerPoint presentation was conceived, designed, and created by Carolyn P. Henly, Meadowbrook High School, Chesterfield County, Virginia. 1999. Permission for use limited to face-to-face instruction in a high school classroom. You may distribute this PowerPoint presentation freely, but it may not be altered and this credit page may not be removed. All quotations came from: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Bantam Classics, 1981.
