from Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen In this scene, Elizabeth has rejected Darcy’s proposal of marriage has given her opinion of him, and the following is his response to her. "And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps," added he, stopping in his walk, and turning towards her, "these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by every thing. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" 1 Select ALL the correct answers. Which two details in the passage support the idea that Darcy is also prejudiced against Elizabeth? “Whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own” “The inferiority of your connections” “This is the estimation in which you hold me” “But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence” “Flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination”
from Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
In this scene, Elizabeth has rejected Darcy’s proposal of marriage has given her opinion of him, and the following is his response to her.
"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps," added he, stopping in his walk, and turning towards her, "these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by every thing. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?"
Which two details in the passage support the idea that Darcy is also prejudiced against Elizabeth?
- “Whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own”
- “The inferiority of your connections”
- “This is the estimation in which you hold me”
- “But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence”
- “Flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination”
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