FIVE QUOTATIONS TO MEMORISE:

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• "We all started like that – so confident, so pleased with ourselves until he began asking us questions." (Act 2) - This quote highlights the idea of how easily people can become complacent in their actions and beliefs until they are confronted with questions that challenge their views.

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• "It's the only time I’ve ever done anything like that, and I’ll never, never do it again to anybody." (Act 1) - This quote shows the regret and remorse of a character who has done something wrong and vows to never repeat it again.

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• "But these girls aren’t cheap labour- t...

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The twenty year-old Elizabeth, sometimes Lizzie, sometimes Eliza, is a most attractive young woman. Not only is she beautiful, with eyes that made her irresistible to Mr Darcy, but she has an exceptional personality. She is high spirited but self-controlled, always guided by her good sense, which few of the other female characters in the novel have. She is self-assured, outspoken, and assertive, but never rude or aggressive.

Elizabeth’s assertiveness and outspokenness would have shocked the readers of the novel when it first came out. Although Jane Austen is criticized for creating characters that reaffirm the expectations about female stereotypes it is clear that the character of Elizabeth Bennet challenges the expected gender norms of her time, particularly when compared with the other females in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is willing to express her opinions wh...