Block, 4/3 & 4 - Integrating Quotes
- You have 30 minutes to finish your Romanticism 2.0 notes; then we will discuss.
- (I would like to work on integrating quotes into
your own work. Let's work on this for a while so you can do it in your
P&P essay.) First, you must have your quote, the context, and the
reason for integrating it (connect it to your TS - main idea you're supporting in the paragraph).
- Quote: Mr. Collins - "[This] false step in one daughter will be
injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine
herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?
And this consideration leads me moreover to reflect, with augmented
satisfaction, on a certain event of last November; for had it been
otherwise, I must have been involved in all your sorrow and disgrace" (Ch. 48).
- Context: He's writing a letter to the Bennet family both declaring their entire moral destruction through the folly of one daughter and gloating over his having avoided a "near" misalliance with them—Lizzy's rejection of his offer of marriage . . . what he believes is now a blessing in disguise.
- Reason: Collins' letter of lamentation to the Bennet family is a veiled attempt to morally and socially elevate himself at their expense. This instance further develops Austen's theme that it is common, especially in hierarchical societies, for people to try to ascend the social ladder by disparaging and demoting others, simply and principally by associating the innocent with the morally or even socially inferior.
HW: Read P&P P3 Ch 11-13 (53-55)
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