Miscommunication by Chelsea Snell

00030854 — 2014-10-21 15:39:14 UTC

00030854 — 2014-10-21 15:40:15 UTC

00030854 — 2014-10-21 15:58:30 UTC

This is when Elizabeth went to visit Jane at the Bingley's , and she plays the piano. Jane Austen uses this situation to show stark the miscommunication between Darcy and Elizabeth is.

00030854 — 2014-10-22 23:40:57 UTC

"Mrs. Hurst sang with her sister, and while they were thus employed Elizabeth could not help but observing as she turned over some music books that lay near on the instrument how frequently Mr. Darcy's eyes were fixed on her. She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man; and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her was still more strange. She could only imagine however, at last, that she drew his notice because there was something about her more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas ideas of right, than in other person present. The supposition did not pain her. She liked too little to care for his approbation" (Austen, 43).

00030854 — 2014-10-23 00:07:07 UTC

Elizabeth and Darcy are bantering and Miss Bingley gets jealous. Austen uses this prime example to convey the gap btween Darcy and Elizabeth's opinion and the reality of eachother.

00030854 — 2014-10-23 21:47:07 UTC

"'And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.' 'And yours,' he rplied with a smile, 'is wilfully to misunderstand them'" (Austen, 49).

In this scene where Darcy confesses his love for Elizabeth and Elizabeth rejects him because he sounds too prideful, Austen reveals just how much the theme of miscommunicayion has affected her charcters and their relationtrionships with one another.

00030854 — 2014-10-23 21:58:00 UTC

"'In vian I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you hoe ardently I admire and love you.' Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. [..] In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike. she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and though her intensions did not vary for an instant, she was at first sorry for the pain he was about to recieve; till, roused by resentment by his subsequent language, she lost all compassion in anger" (Austen, 165).

00030854 — 2014-10-23 22:23:15 UTC