{"id":51,"date":"2020-02-02T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T22:22:31","slug":"pride-and-prejudice-chapters-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/pride-and-prejudice-chapters-1-6\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>: Chapters 1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-2634340\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/829264\/2634340.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-2634340&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we look at chapters 1 to 6 of <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Things we mention:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> References:<ul><li>John Mullan,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15793663-what-matters-in-jane-austen\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved<\/em><\/a> (2012)<\/li><li>John Burrows,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1056390.Computation_into_Criticism\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Computation into Criticism: Study of Jane Austen&#8217;s Novels and an Experiment in Method<\/em><\/a> (1987)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Adaptations of the book<ul><li>MGM,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032943\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1940) &#8211; starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier<\/li><li>BBC,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078672\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> (1980) &#8211; starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul<\/li><li>BBC,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112130\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1995) &#8211; starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth<\/li><li>Focus Features,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0414387\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride &amp; Prejudice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2005) &#8211; starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Modernisations of the book<ul><li>Path\u00e9 Pictures International,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361411\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> (2004) &#8211; starring Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson<\/li><li>YouTube,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXfbQAimgtbk4RAUHtIAUww\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lizzie Bennet Diaries<\/em><\/a> (2012) &#8211; starring Ashley Clements and Daniel Vincent Gordh<\/li><li>Bestboy Pictures,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0366920\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice: A Latter Day Comedy<\/em><\/a> (2003) &#8211; starring Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale<\/li><li>Helen Fielding,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/227443.Bridget_Jones_s_Diary\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary<\/em><\/a> (1996) &#8211; also a 2001\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0243155\/\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a><\/li><li>Curtis Sittenfeld,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25852870-eligible\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eligible<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Continuations of the book<ul><li>P.D. James,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/12875355-death-comes-to-pemberley\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Death Comes to Pemberley<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2011) &#8211; also a 2013\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2951788\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC mini-series<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Variations on the book<ul><li>Seth Graham-Smith and Jane Austen,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5899779-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2009) &#8211; also a 2016\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1374989\/\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<BR>\n<h2>Creative commons music used:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Haydn_sonata_hob._XVI_23_mvt_1.oga\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 38. Performance by Ivan Ili\u0107, recorded in Manchester in December, 2006<\/a>. File originally from IMSLP.<\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart_-_sonata_no._13_in_b_flat_major,_k.333_-_iii._allegretto_grazioso.ogg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, iii. Allegretto Grazioso<\/a>. File originally from Musopen.<\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_Frideric_Handel_-_suite_i,_no._2_in_f_major,_hwv_427_-_ii._allegro.ogg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Frideric Handel, Suite I, No. 2 in F Major, ii. Allegro<\/a>. File originally from Musopen.<\/li><li>Extract from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Beethoven_-_Piano_Sonata_No._28_in_A_Major,_Op._101_-_I._Etwas_lebhaft,_und_mit_der_innigsten_Empfindung.ogg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major<\/a>. File originally from Musopen.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 1-6\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/pride-and-prejudice-chapters-1-6\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>: Chapters 1-6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readingjaneausten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}