Pride and Prejudice Notes

Michael Hall

Notes: Pride and Prejudice

·         Mr.Bingley, a wealthy and notable young man moves into Netherfield Park. Mrs. Bennet, mother of 5 daughters: Jane, Elizabeth Mary, Catherine, and Lydia, tries to introduce her daughter to him in the hopes that he marries one.

·         A ball is held in the neighborhood and all important characters come, the Bennet’s see this as a time to meet Mr. Bingley

·         At the ball Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley friend, is introduced and show to be cold and overall unfaltering mostly to Elizabeth who over hears him decline to dance with her.

·         During the ball Bingley meets Jane, one of the daughters and instantly falls for her looks.

·         After the ball both Jane and Mr. Bingley keep talking about each other while Elizabeth talks about how Darcy was rub and proud.

·         As time goes on Jane and Mr. Bingley’s affection grows for each other, at the same time Mr. Darcy grows a liking to Elizabeth while she still sees him as proud.

·         One day Jane receives an invitation to dinner at Mr. Bingley’s, she goes but gets sick, as part of her moms plan, and stays after to get better. Her sister worries and walks to see and finds her sicker than thought before and stays with her.

·         As they stay Darcy finds himself more drown to Elizabeth, but doesn’t make a move because of the low social class of some of her relatives.

·         Once Jane recovers, they head back home her they hear that their cousin, William Collins is coming to talk about inheriting their land, when their father dies, due to the estate being entailed. Collins talks about how he plans to marry one of the sisters, he proposes to Elizabeth.

·          The group head to Meryton, where they meet the new officer Wickman, and they are told about past conflicts with Wickman and Darcy.

·          They all go to a ball at Netherfield, where they are many talks about an engagement of Jane and Bingley from Mrs. Benne

·         After the ball Collins proposes to Elizabeth but when she refuses he and her mother get very angry. In the mist her friend Charlotte Lucas gets engaged to Collins, not for love but for financial security.

·         Soon after the Bingley group leave for a long trip to London while jane is stuck at home.

·         Jane receives a letter from Bindley’s sister saying that they are staying in London and not returning. Jane is devastated and goes into a depression.

·         That Christmas Mrs. Bennet's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner come to visit and invites Jane to come to London with them. 

·         After London Elizabeth heads north to Hunsford and a brief visit to Miss De Bourgh, there she sees Darcy and has many heated discussions with him.

·         Elizabeth hears how Darcy help Bingley get out of a bad engagement, which she assumes is Jane’s and is horrified. Later that day Darcy checks on her health and proposes to her, first she is flattered but then mad when he tells her why he has reservations. She then tells him all the problems she has with him.

·         The next day he gives her a letter that tells how the two biggest problems she has with him are both false, breaking up Jane and Bingley and treating Wickham.

·         At first she doesn’t believe it but as she recounts the actions she relives that everything Darcy said was true and that she was the one wrong, but once she makes this realization it is too late. Darcy has already left.

·         The militia is set to leave once Elizabeth and Jane get back and Lydia is invited to go with them.

·          Later that summer Elizabeth accompanies her aunt and uncle on a trip to the north where they decide to go to Dary’s estate,  Pemberley,

·         Later Elizabeth finds out that her sister, Lydia, has run away with Wickman. Darcy comforts her but she worries that because of this he will never want her as a wife.

·         Mr.Bennet spends a long time looking for the runaways and eventually finds them, and gets them to agree to get married.

·         As she realizes how she loves Darcy, she sees how he would never want to marry into their family.

·         Elizabeth found out when Lydia and Wickman came home that it was Darcy who found them and paid off his debts.   

·         Word comes that Bindley is returning and that Darcy is accompanying him, as time goes Jane and Bingley began to talk again and not to long after he proposes.

·         Elizabeth is visited by Lady Catherine De Bourgh, Darcy’s aunt, who tells her that there is a rumor that her and Darcy are engaged and tells her to end it.

·         Not too long after Darcy visits Elizabeth and they both express their love for each other and agree to be married.