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"'If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,' cried a young Lucas who came with his sisters, 'I should not care how proud i was.'" Jane Austen emphasizes the absurdity of how the upper class acts without paying attention to their excessive pride.

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"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then" (94).
Mrs. Bennet makes this observation when talking to Elizabeth about Jane's love life. She recognizes that marriage during that time was not always fulfilled by love. It is humorous because today people see love as a necessity for marriage.

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"Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do" (77).

In this quote, Mr. Bennet speaks to Elizabeth regarding the issues that come with marriage. This quote portrays Jane Austen's flippancy towards marriage. She uses an extreme situation--never seeing one of your parents again--to humorously reveal the effects of a poor marriage.

"Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three and twenty!" (149).
Lydia speaks regarding Jane, who is 23 years old and has yet to be married.

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Bridget Pelch, Meghan Risley, and Kennedy Orban

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Bridget Pelch, Meghan Risley, and Kennedy Orban

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'I like her appearance,' said Elizabeth, struck with other ideas. 'She looks sickly and cross. - Yes , she will do for him very well. (109)'

-Jane implies that through Elizabeth's eyes at the beginning of the story that Darcy belongs with a girl that is sickly and cross.

'Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you! Is this your gratitude for my attentions to you last spring? Is nothing due to me on that score? (239).

This quote implies that Lady Catherine doesn't think Elizabeth is good enough to ever marry Darcy.

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Jackie Wildeisen and Ashleigh Weismiller

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Jackie Wildeisen and Ashleigh Weismiller

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"if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness, if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under orders" (21).

Jane Austen is making fun of Mrs. Bennet because she makes Jane go out in the rain in pursuit of a boy, risking her health. Austen exemplifies her sass through Mr. Bennet who continues to ridicule his wife and her actions throughout the book.

"'If he had any compassion for me,' cried her husband impatiently, 'he would not have danced half so much!'" (8).

Mr. Bennet, again, makes fun of Mrs. Bennet because she continues to talk about Mr. Bingley, and he has heard enough of it. He'd rather have Mr. Bingley not dance with Jane because then he would not have to hear about it from his wife.

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"'I thank you for my share of the favour,' said Elizabeth; 'but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.'" (Austen 212)
Elizabeth is making fun of Lydia's belief that she is good at picking up guys. This is Jane Austen laughing at young girls of the time.

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Mrs. Bennet states, "'..I am frightened out of my wits; and have such tremblings, such flutterings, all over me, such spasms in my side, and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day'" (192). Mrs. Bennet is discussing her mortification of Lydia and Wickham running off and getting married. At this moment Mrs. Bennet releases all of her emotions displaying her lack of self control and sole focus on her daughters. As a result, she formulates the situation to have all eyes focused on  her, rather than her daughters.

Mrs. Bennet states, "'Good gracious! Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! who would have thought it! and is it really true?Oh! my sweetest Lizzy! How rich and how great your you will be!'" (255). Mrs. Bennet at this point, releases her extreme emotions about her daughter's marriage, Jane's. With her extreme emotions, she acknowledges the importance of money and how her own life will benefit in the end.

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"Let me advise you then, my dear Sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offence" (199).
-After Lydia ran away with Wickham, Mr. Collins wrote to Mr. Bennet addressing the issue of Lydia and Wickham running away together. He advises Mr. Bennet to get rid of Lydia to save their family reputation.
-Jane Austen is saying that women really cannot make any mistakes. Every mistake that they make has a huge punishment in society and can ruin their reputation. Men, however, can make any mistake and it is no big deal.
-“…that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable—that one false step involves her in endless ruin—that he reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful,--and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex” (193).
-This quote relates to how women cannot make mistakes without having major consequences.

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"The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this" (page 198). Jane Austen was satirizing how much of a disgrace is was to elope back then. This is satire because people back then thought it would haven been so much better if Lydia would have died rather than eloped with Wickham. If she eloped, her character and her family's character would be diminished and viewed as a disgrace. She is satirizing society's ideals of viewing eloping as a disgrace during her time.
"They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one daughter, will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others" (198). This quote also satirizes society's ideals of viewing eloping as a shame and embarrassment because it says her eloping (one little choice) will completely destroy her life and her family's life.

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"I did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement, but that from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood" (158).

Elizabeth reveals to Mr. Wickham that she knows the truth from Mr. Darcy, and now Mr. Wickham knows that Elizabeth knows the real story about the real story that occurred between Darcy and Wickham. After this, it was kind of awkward between them, and Elizabeth was mad at him.

"Do not let us quarrel about the past" (220).

This was said by Elizabeth after her and Wickham made amends with each other once him and Lydia got married. Elizabeth wanted their relationship to be better since they were now family, so she let what happen between them pass.

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"The soup was fifty times better than what we had at the Lucas's last week" (229).
Every time Mrs. Bennet talks about the Lucases, it is never in good terms. She always has something critical to say.

Austen is alluding to the competition of the classes in 19th century England. Austen makes the point that mothers during this time would say anything to get their daughters hitched.

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Mr. Bennet says, "'I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. . . Wickham, perhaps, is my favorite" (Austen 256). We chose this quote because Jane Austen is using satire to show Mr. Bennet's extreme dislike of Lydia. He says he likes Wickham the most because he got Lydia out of his life for a minimal amount of money. Lydia is similar to Mrs. Bennet in character, so this can also show his dislike of his wife. Lydia is portrayed as an annoyance to her family members because she constantly brags about her marriage and boys, all while lacking manners and acting self centered. For example, she says, "Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman" (212). Lydia's obsession with marriage blinds her of the harsh reality that her marriage is not true love, and Wickham only married for Darcy's money.

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"And now here's Mr. Bennet gone away, and I know he will fight Wickham, wherever he meets him, and then he will be killed, and what is to become of us all? The Collinses will turn us out, before he is cold in his grave..." (192).
We chose this quote because Jane Austen satirizing the dependence women have on men at the time.  Men make all property decisions and own everything, so women have little.
paraphrased "let's hope that I should outlive you..." -Mr. Bennet to Mrs. Bennet
We chose this quote, because it displays that Mrs. Bennet cares about the death of her husband, because she wants a place to live. Jane Austen satirizes the dependence on men.

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"'Sir William's interruption has made me forget what we were talking of.' ' I do not think we were speaking at all. Sir William could not have interrupted any two people in the room who had less to say for themselves.-- We have tried two or three subjects already without success, and what we are to talk of next I cannot imagine.' ...' I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings'" (64).

Jane Austen is satirizing Elizabeth's prejudice towards people, in this case Mr. Darcy, whom she barely knows. She automatically disregards everything he tries to start with her, and does not even try to change her perception of him. This is one of the main issues in the book, because Elizabeth sticks with her first impressions of people and it takes a lot to overcome her impression.

"She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. -- Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she has been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" (141).

Jane Austen is commenting again on how much it took for Elizabeth to change her opinion on both Darcy and Wickham. She had to be truly shown the real side of Darcy, through a long letter, to change her strong opinion.