AP English Literature - Help?

Eckie
Sun, 07 May 2006 10:42:06 +0000

For the third one, I talked Pride and Prejudice, and how each small town (lizzie’s home, Catherine’s estate, and Pemberly) had a social stereotype attached to it (lizzie’s town as socially primative, Catherine’s estate as an improvement, and Pemberly as the epitome of British society) and how these stereotypes impacted the characters’ behavior at each and their relationships.

I also said that because Dacy and Lizzie were able to be socially functioning in each of the three various settings by the end of the novel, they showed they were above Austen’s mockery of 18th century British society, unlike Miss Bingley and Mrs. Bennet, who were only socially comfortable in the town which was the personification of their own social bearing.