Key Facts

FULL TITLE AUTHOR

Pride and Prejudice Novel

Jane Austen

TYPE OF WORK GENRE

Comedy of manners English England, between 1796 and 1 1! 1 1!

LANGUAGE

TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION PUBLISHER NARRATOR CLIMAX

"homas Egerton of #ondon "hird$%erson omnis&ient Eli+abeth /ennet

'r( )ar&y*s %ro%osal to Eli+abeth ,-olume !, Cha%ter 16.

PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST

0nobbish &lass$&ons&iousness ,e%itomi+ed by #ady Catherine de /ourgh and 'iss /ingley.

SETTING

(TIME) 0ome %oint during the Na%oleoni& 1ars ,17972 (PLACE) #ongbourn, in rural England
IEW

1 13.
SETTING

"he novel is %rimarily told from Eli+abeth /ennet*s %oint of view(

POINT OF FALLING ACTION

"he two &ha%ters of the novel after )ar&y*s

%ro%osal
TENSE

4ast tense

"he only notable e5am%le of foreshadowing o&&urs when Eli+abeth visits 4emberley, )ar&y*s estate, in -olume !, Cha%ter 1( 6er a%%re&iation of the estate foreshadows her eventual reali+ation of her love for its owner(
FORESHADOWING

Comi&7or, in Jane Austen*s own words, 8light and bright, and s%ar9ling:
TONE THEMES MOTIFS

#ove; <e%utation; Class Courtshi%; Journeys

"he novel is light on symbolism, e5&e%t on the visit to 4emberley, whi&h is des&ribed as being 8neither formal, nor falsely adorned,:and is &learly meant to symboli+e the &hara&ter of 'r( )ar&y(
SYMBOLS