English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1229 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pride and Prejudice
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The idea
Pride and Prejudice, of eighteen thirteen, a novel of manners, opens, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Elizabeth Bennet learns the cost of hasty judgment as she misreads the proud Mr Darcy.
In practice
Hasty judgment, then recognition.
Where people slip
The opening sentence is ironic.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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