ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elizabeth Bennet, Entrust, Free Indirect Speech
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Utopian promise of the first sentence is undercut so quickly. Friction between the world we occupy in that first sentence in what the narrator is concerned with the universal truth of men wanting a woman as a wife. Second sentence says that the truth is something more complicated to determine: having to guess at truth because we don"t know the feelings or. Geographical and social mobility a world in which people are moving the views of a man first entering a neighborhood houses fixed: people who are strangers from one another are obliged to associate with another. We move from a world in which truths are fixed to a world that is not: truths and people are unsettled in this book. People in this world aren"t fixed in place universal things that seem universal truths end up being local truths and something that newcomers would not recognize: mr. and ms. bingley, mr. darcy, the militia.
