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Chapter Quotation Idea Analysis Device
10 ‘’Nothing is more Darcy foreshadows Mr Collins. Structural
deceitful than the Foreshadowi
appearance of ng
humility’’
13 Clergy Lady Catherine de Bourgh recently
Arrogance employed Collins. He is from the
clergy and he offers to help the
Bennets by marrying one of them. He
is not a proper clergyman because he
should have given the house to them
(without marriage) if he was.
Arrogance to think that one of them
will be happy to marry him.
13 ‘a stranger’ Shows the injustice of Collins Linguistic
inheriting the house because they
have never seen him before.
13 ‘subsisting’ Arrogance The long winded sentence and overly Structure
formal language suggest already that Parallel
he is pretentious and full of himself. Complex
Structurally, he uses only six syntax
sentences because all of them are so
long. In a way, he is a parallel to Mary
because he uses unnecessary words.
13 ‘demean’ Class This means to make yourself seem
worse. Servile nature to the
aristocracy. This reflects what the
lower classes actually thought.
13 ‘beg leave’ Overly dramatic and formal. Linguistic
Over the top
13 ‘Monday, Arrogance Collins is arrogant because he
November 19th, by assumes that he will be welcomed
four o’clock’ with open arms.
13 ‘trespass’ Collin’s diction in his letter shows Linguistic
that he is a stranger. Diction
13 ‘tall, heavy-looking Oxymoron because young men were Linguistic
young man of five- usually not ‘heavy looking’ or ‘grave’. Oxymoron
and-twenty’ Not attractive. Butters.
‘grave and stately’
‘very formal’
13 ‘well disposed of’ Position of He sees the Bennet girls as objects. Linguistic
Women
13 ‘assure’ ‘that I Arrogance Shows his arrogance because he
come prepared to thinks he is doing them a favour.
admire them’
, 13 ‘objects’ ‘dining- Materialis Transactional language shows his Linguistic
room’ ‘hall’ m materialism. Transactional
‘furniture’ language
13 ‘highly admired’ Outward He is a very insincere person because Linguistic
‘apologise’ appearance he is only flattering or apologising.
14 ‘condescended to Class Satire because Collins sees Lady Literary
advise him’ Catherine de Bourgh overseeing his Satire
‘shelves in closests’ house and personal life as an honour. Caricature
He is an absurd figure and a
caricature. Object of ridicule because
of his subservience.
14 ‘separated only by Ridiculous
a lane’
14 ‘very extensive He focuses on material objects, even Linguistic
property’ when talking about Lady Catherine Transactional
de Bourgh’s family. Transactional language
language.
14 ‘superior to the Class Satire- Lady Bourgh says that her Literary
handsomest of her daughter is the most beautiful Satire
sex’ because of her aristocracy. Structure
‘sickly constitution’ Structurally, there is juxtaposition Juxtaposition
because Collins says that she has a
‘sickly complexion’.
14 ‘accomplishments’ She cannot even do the normal skills
that a young lady can do.
14 ‘condescends to His subservience stretches to Lady
drive by’ Catherine’s daughter too.
14 ‘brightest Brightest ornament – superlative. Linguistic
ornament’ Superlative
Materialism
14 ‘flattering with Outward His compliments are contrived – they Linguistic
delicacy’ appearance are artificial and meant to
manipulate people. He says things
that people want to hear.
14 ‘suggesting and Outward Collins practises creating
arranging’ appearance compliments, and this shows that all
the compliments he gives to the
Bennet family are insincere.
15 ‘pride and Outward Oxymorons show that Mr Collins’ Linguistic
obsequiousness, appearance outward manner is not really who he Oxymoron
self-importance is.
and humility’
15 ‘choose’ Arrogance He is arrogant – he thinks that he is
Clergy so superior that he can choose any of
them. This shows the hollowness of
his ‘plan of amends’. There is no
goodwill. He thinks he is selfless but
it is really for his own benefit.
15 ‘choose one’ The structural contrast of the two Structural
‘seniority’ paragraphs shows that he is a liar. He Paragraph
first says that he was going to choose contrast
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