1st Body (in progress)

Mr. Darcy, normally extremely proud and arrogant, begins to fall for (quote - eyes). Eyes, a symbol for truth, allude to Darcy surprisingly ignoring Elizabeth's lower social status and instead focusing on her true inner intelligence and beauty. The ball provides a forum for such attractions to develop, as without the gala Darcy may have never approached Elizabeth, forever turned away by her lesser socio-economic status. The ball also highlights Elizabeth's abhorrence of the currently marital system that tends to de-humize women and encourages emotional blindness and disappearing intellect in women. The intelligent sarcasm that she displays is, ironically, attractive to Darcy, as it displays to him a level of intelligence that could perhaps equal his own. Darcy is attracted to the point where he offers Elizabeth his hand to dance at the ball, an offer that to many women would be unthinkable to refuse. Yet, Elizabeth refuses the offer and by doing so she continues to display her intellectual equality and personal respect for herself. Darcy admires Elizabeth's respect for herself and her intellectual ability to do so as he views (higher intellect making one superior). However, while the balls offer Darcy an oppurtuntiy to be attracted to Elizabeth, she gathers a disdain for him and she gathers a tainted image of  Darcy. The rumors regarding Darcy and Mr. Wickham, portray Darcy as an abominable man who disregards his fathers will and harming an innocent Wickham. Balls offered a forum for the rumors, such as the rumor Elizabeth gathers about Darcy, to spread thoughout the community. As these galas became not only an event to lure potential suitors, balls also were social gatherings that gave the latest rumors and news a chance to spread throughout the rest of the community. During the novel's second ball the fact that Darcy was beginning to gravitate towards Elizabeth became apparent to her. These grand galas set relationships that would develop and Change over the course of the novel.

English Introduction

In English upper class society in the 1800's social galas; such as, balls were quite common social events, allowing the varing influential families of the area to gather and mingle. Often the grandest balls were held by the wealthiest and most influential individuals, each person trying to hold a grander ball than the last, a social arms race that could determine the marital fate of all children in the family. Balls were often used to signal to eligable males of the society that the daughter of the hosting family was being opened to suitors. It also created opertunities for women to entice the males at the gathering, in hopes of the wealthiest males finding interest in them and hopefully resulting in a marriage proposal. In Pride and Prejudice mingling of the influential individuals at the balls plays a vital role in determining the eventual courtships and biased conflicts that proceed in the rest of the novel.

Essay Main Idea and Question

"What is the importance of hosting balls in the process of getting married?"

The chance to meet large numbers of eligible men and socialize with them makes balls incredibly important to finding potential mates. it allows for women to entice males and try to swing their opinions in their favor.

All of the benett women meet their partners at their ball and it proves extremely important to the development of opinions between characters in the novel

D.W. Harding Opinion

Harding accurately identifies the importance and accuracy of Austin's criticisms of the British class structures in the 1800. Elizabeth's 'modern' attitude toward marriage, as Harding points out, juxtaposes Charlotte's eager acceptance of a marriage with Mr. Collins she is not particularly thrilled with. Also, most characters accept Lady Catherine De Burg's aragence towards others highlights the respect for those with wealth in society.

However, the novel is not a comedic depiction of these issues because of Austin's lack of interest in the issue, but it is comedic to prevent herself from being austricized by the very society she was writing about. This is criticle to understand when reading the novel, since understanding the reasoning behind her use of satire can change the reader's understanding of the author's view on the issues.

Questions for Pride and Prejudice

Zachary Heffner

Megan Irani

1. Why does the burden of entising another person fall solely on a women? 
2. Why is Charollete so concerned with her age as a hinderance for her marriage
3. What causes Mr. Darcy to extremely concerned with both socially and economically. - X
4. Why does Mrs. Bennet have to receive confer nation of actions from Mr. Bennet - X
5. What is the importance of balls in upper class society?
6. How does the requirement of a large dowry by the female, restrict her marital abilities if she comes from a lower social rank. - X

A) These are all open ended questions.

B) Close-ended

Advantages: It allows for shorter answers that gives a student a very specific direction to work in.

Disadvanges: It doesn't allow for analytical responses.

Open-ended

Advantages: allows for a lengthy analytical responses to questions with much intellectual thought

Disadvanges: students can sometimes get off topic and give lengthy responses

C) no close ended 

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Pride and Prejudice Blocking

The scene where Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth shall be set indoors in the Bennet household. Mr. Collins should often invade Elizabeth's personal space, emitting a feeling of uncomfortably that Elizabeth has. Also he should behave in a snobbish manner often making 'interesting noises'. Finally, he should prevent Elizabeth's exit and block her at all times to quite literally trap her in the room. Elizabeth should act quite jittery as she desires to be anywhere but in the room. Elizabeth should take any opportunity where Mr. Collins moves out of her way to attempt to leave. Elizabeth must act in a manner to convey how uncomfortable she is.