In the following lessons, you will read and study the great classic novel Pride and Prejudice.
You will answer questions and learn about this novel’s key elements.
You will play game quizzes reviewing this novel’s content.
You will complete a 3 minute timed quiz after each lesson.
Finally, you will complete a 30 minute timed quiz assessing your acquired learning for this course.
Novel elements in a ‘nut-shell’…
Plot: Perfunctory and Illusory first impressions
Setting: Early nineteenth-century Hertfordshire and Derbyshire, England and its surroundings
Themes: Judgement, social stratification, pride, love, family, compassion, gender, integrity, deception
Major Characters
Elizabeth: the second-eldest lovely, bright, sharp-witted Bennet sister hampered with faulty first impressions but who, nevertheless, ‘gets Darcy’s attention’
Darcy: the wealthy, stately, reserved, seemingly imperious but virtuous owner of the Pemberley family estate who ‘gets Elizabeth’s attention’
Jane: the eldest attractive, good-natured and overly trusting Bennet sister who ‘gets Bingley’s attention’
Bingley: Darcy’s friend: handsome, likeable, affluent well-mannered, impressionable young gentleman who ‘gets Jane’s attention’
Mr. Bennet: the languid and cynical middle-aged father of the five Bennet sisters
Mrs. Bennet: the nervous, nonsensical, insensitive and sometimes ludicrous middle-aged mother of the five Bennet sisters
Lydia: the youngest headstrong, flirty, impulsive Bennet sister who gets Wickham’s ‘uncaring attention’
Caroline: Bingley’s pretentious, vain, arrogant and conniving sister who fails to ‘get Darcy’s attention’
Wickham: a superficial and deceitful young military officer ultimately spurned by Elizabeth but becomes Lydia’s impulsive ‘focus of attention’
Collins: the eager to please, pretentious and disingenuous heir to the Longbourn estate
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Darcy’s wealthy, condescending and domineering aunt who has nothing but contempt for Elizabeth and her family
