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This 6 page paper discusses scenes from “Great Expectations” and “Pride and Prejudice” which represent turning points in the story. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is entirely false. This paper examines turning points in both novels. Discussion In the classic Jane Austen, it has to be said that both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are so
full of pride its a wonder they ever get together. In addition, both of them are guilty of initiating the 18th century equivalent of that miserable conversation that begins "Im
only telling you this for your own good," after which the speaker proceeds to verbally disembowel the person theyre speaking to. After that, they expect the person they have just
slashed to ribbons to thank them for their honesty, and when they are faced instead with hurt and anger, they are surprised. This is what happens when Mr. Darcy finally
asks Elizabeth to marry him. He appears at her door late one evening and blurts out: "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be
repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you" (Austen). His statement shocks Elizabeth into silence as he tells her of "all that he
felt and had long felt for her" (Austen). He should have shut up at that point, but he blunders on, driven by his pride and sense that he must be
completely honest, telling her that he has these feelings in spite of knowing she is inferior to him and that it is a "degradation" for him to love her (Austen).
He then considers her family, and their faults "were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his
suit" (Austen). Elizabeth, not surprisingly, reacts with anger and tells him she wouldnt marry him if he were the last man on earth, and further, she accuses him of having
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