Pride and Prejudice, Chapters 1 to 6
Reading Jane Austen
English - February 02, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBBooks Arts jane austen austen reading books Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, we look at chapters 1 to 6 of Pride and Prejudice. We talk about how the book sets up the relationship between love and marriage, the way the characters are introduced so gradually, what we see in Darcy and the fact that we quickly learn how much money everyone has.
We discuss Mrs Bennet in some detail, and then Ellen talks about class in the early nineteenth century, and the type of neighbourhood Pride and Prejudice is set in. Harriet gives an overview of the pop culture versions of the book (dividing them into adaptations, modernisations, continuations and variations) and then looks at how some of them deal with the opening sentence, the period setting and the character of Mrs Bennet.
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Creative commons music used:
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