Humanities 205 Enlightenment Pride and
Prejudice
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The Bennets live at Longbourn,
an estate outside the village of Meryton
The Lucases and Philips live in the village of Meryton, in Hertfordshire
Charles Bingley is renting the estate of Netherfield,
near Meryton
Mr. Collins is vicar at Hunsford, in Kent, a
"living" given him by
Lady Catherine, who lives in the adjacent estate, Rosings Park
The Gardiners live in Grace Church St, in the unfashionable merchant
area of London
The Darcy estate is Pemberley in Derbyshire
Longbourn is an entailed estate, that is, it cannot be
inherited by a female.
Motifs and action chains:
Dancing and behavior at dances
Libraries and books
Letters
Walking
Music and playing the pianoforte
Natural beauty and landscaping
Dialogues and
discussions, public and private
On the harmony of
divergent tendencies:
Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain;
Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call,
Each works its end, to move or govern all:
And to their proper operation still,
Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill.
Self-love,
the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason’s comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that, no action could attend,
And but for this, were active to no end.”
--Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle 2
Self-knowledge and moral blindness, or Awakening
Art and Nature
Perceptions and Observations (how people are not always what they appear
to be)
Sanity and survival by wit, and the interesting possibility of
romance Syllabus