Has anyone read Pride and Prejudice?? Please help!!?

Question

I read the book and now i need to write an essay comparing and contrasting current dating with dating in Jane Austin's time. Do you guys have an quotes from the book that would relate to this essay topic?!!! PLEASE HELP! page number and chapter number would be great. (I need a lot of quotes--it's for AP Literature)

I HAVE ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK...so don't tell me to read the book! I have!!!!

Answer 1

A good example of dating practices in this story is the part where Lydia runs off with Whickham. Think of all the consequesces of this action in the story, compared with the consequesces a girl might have today if she moves in with someone without marrying him. That would be one of the most obvious then-vs-now treatments you can do.

Check out this website for more P&P help than you could ever want, it should help you with finding quotes. http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

Also, next time, ask your teacher for essay questions BEFORE you start the reading so that you can take notice of certain things like this... Especially with long books like this.

Answer 2

I read it on my free time last week. I am 11 years old and understood the book well. I will give you my favorite quotes... but I won't tell you the page or chapter... it's your homework. I suggest next time buying the book so you can underline, highlight, and put sticky notes to help yourself remember important quotes (like I do).

1) "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"

2) "The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which tuned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend"

3) "To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed"

4) "I have no wish of denying that I did every thing in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself"

5) "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner"

6) "How despicably have I acted!' she cried. – ‘I, who have prided myself on my discernment! – I, who have valued myself on my abilities!…"

7) "Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it"

8) "There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance"

9) "The Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run way, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune"

10) "If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and entreaty of so near a relation might settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy, as dignity unblemished could make him"

Answer 3

You should read the book. It's really good. At least rent and watch the movie.

For more help see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_prejudice

and for quotes:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice

Answer 4

Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/quotes.html

Answer 5

I read it but I'm not going to help you with your homework. Read the book.

Answer 6

This might help:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/pap/PART1.htm
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/pride/fullsumm.html