Pride and Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice Discussion Questions
1. Most of Jane Austen’s novels focus on the education or growing up of a
young woman. What does Lizzie learn and how does she change in the course
of the novel?
2. To what extent is prejudice, which in Austen’s society and time meant class
snobbery, important to the plot of the novel?
3. Which characters would you classify as proud? Which would you classify as
prejudiced? Do any of these characters change? If so, what makes them
change?
4.Look closely at social expectations—trace the several dinners, balls, and
public gatherings, and notice how people should or shouldn’t behave in
public; that is, find examples of people behaving correctly and of people
behaving incorrectly. How different is it today?
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