Showing posts with label austen pride and prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label austen pride and prejudice. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2011

Last pages of Pride and Prejudice

I'm almost done with my novel!
            LYDIA TIES THE KNOT
212 Lydia brags about getting married
214 Lydia reveals the secret of who was at her wedding (can you guess?)

216 Bad Dad

220 Liz 'tortures' Wickham
    
236-241 Lady Catherine bullies Liz (see the video of the play)

245 Dad still not appropriate
            WEDDING BELLS
246 Another proposal (guess who!)

251 Liz tells a disbelieving Jane

254-5 Liz tells a disbelieving Dad then Mom
  (which of these is the most awkward for Liz?)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

More Austen pages to study carefully

            CHARLOTTE’S MARRIAGE
85 Charlotte’s engagment

87 Liz confronts Charlotte about marrying Collins

93 Discussing it with Jane

100  Charlotte’s wedding

            WICKHAM AND MISS KING
98-9 Mrs. Gardiner warns Liz about Wickham

103, 105 Liz’s reactions to Miss King and Wickham

            ROSINGS with Darcy and Charlotte
109 Collins

113 Lady Catherine: Liz talks back

119 Darcy and Liz sparring

125-6 Col. Fitzwilliam: second sons can’t marry poor

            DARCY’S PROPOSAL and the AFTERMATH
129-31 Darcy’s self-centered proposal: “inferiority” “degradation”

134 Darcy’s letter of explanation: ‘three young sisters, occasionally even your father’
  Jane’s “indifference”;  Wickham eloped with Georgiana (15) for her fortune

139 Liz re-reading (and re-evaluating) Darcy’s letter

141 Till this moment I never knew myself
   Liz’s epiphany: she sees her own blind spot: ‘prided myself on discernment’

144 Bad Dad ‘would never exert himself to restrain the giddiness of the daughters’

148 uglier hats --Lydia

152 Liz’s confession ‘I meant to be uncommonly clever’ taking a dislike to Darcy

            LYDIA TO BRIGHTON?
155 lamentations resounding (sounds, hyperbole, satire on the regiment leaving Meryton

156 Dad’s big mistake: he says no to Liz (sarcastically), yes to Lydia ‘expose herself’

159-60 Liz sees her parents’ marriage problems: Bad Dad

            AT PEMBERLEY
163 Pemberley: Mrs Reynolds praises Darcy

168 Darcy appears! How embarrassing!

174 Georgiana Darcy

180-1 Caroline Bingley gossips about Liz: ‘great loss for your family’; ‘self-sufficiency which is intolerable’

            BENNET FAMILY CRISIS ABOUT LYDIA
182 Jane’s letter is a crisis; ‘my father bears it better’; W. never intended to marry Lydia;

185 How Darcy reacts to Liz’s crisis: ‘Good God, what is the matter!’

189 Bad Dad

192 Wedding Clothes? At a time like this?

197 What does it mean to “ruin”?

199 Collin’s ‘reassurances’ are really gloating

200 Dad blames himself (for a moment)

208 Do they ever refer to sex?

            LYDIA TIES THE KNOT
212 Lydia brags about getting married

214 Lydia reveals the secret of who was at her wedding (can you guess?)

216 Bad Dad

220 Liz tortures Wickham