2. GOING FOR CLIL: cross curricular activities PRIDE & PREJUDICE’S bi-centenary Class 2^A Information Technology and Telecommunications Academic Year 2012/2013

3. …..‘’ Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been voted the book the nation, the United Kingdom, can’t live without’’… Top Ten 1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (20%) 2. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (17%) 3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (14%) 4. Harry Potter books, JK Rowling (12%) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (9.5%) 6. The Bible (9%) 7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (8.5%) 8. Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell (6%) 8. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (6%) 10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (5.5%)

4.  To revise and consolidate what you have already studied in L1  To integrate content and English language learning through skills  To advance your cognitive development through a variety of project activities

6. Author Biography Social and historical context Literary context Works, bibliography Papers, criticism, comparative works Full texts, Abstracts, sound versions Translations, theatrical performances, film adaptations, reinterpretations

7. Author Biography Social/historical context Jane Austen Steventon 1775-1817 Steventon 1775-1817 Hanover: - George III (1760-1820) - George IV (1820-1830) - William IV (1830-1837) - The French Revolution - Financial Reform - Political parties: the Whigs, the Tories and the Radicals Hanover: - George III (1760-1820) - George IV (1820-1830) - William IV (1830-1837) - The French Revolution - Financial Reform - Political parties: the Whigs, the Tories and the Radicals - End of 18° century- beginning of the 19° - Romanticism - Augustan vs Romantic - End of 18° century- beginning of the 19° - Romanticism - Augustan vs Romantic Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen: Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Caprin Mondadori Abstracts: - Chapter 1 - Chapter 56 Abstracts: - Chapter 1 - Chapter 56 Film: Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright Literary context Works, bibliography Full texts, abstracts, sound versions, film adaptations translations Full texts, abstracts, sound versions, film adaptations translations

8. WHO? WHEN? WHAT? WHY? WHERE? ?

9. WHO? English writer English novelist WHEN? 1813 WHAT? Wrote Pride & Prejudice WHY? Romantic dreams WHERE? Chawton ?  She had a collection of more than 500 books  She was a keen observer of human society  She began writing very soon  She had her education at home

10.  Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Steventon, Hampshire; Steventon  In 1787 she wrote her first works.  In 1800 the family sold off everything, including Jane's piano, and moved to Bath, Somerset.Bath  Jane was mostly tutored at home.  She never married, but her social life was active and she had suitors and romantic dreams.  After her father’s death in 1805, she lived with her sister and hypochondriac mother in Southampton.Southampton  In 1809 she moved to a large cottage in the village of Chawton. Chawton

11. Steventon is a rural village in the north of Hampshire, England. Steventon is best known as the birthplace of the author Jane Austen who lived there from 1775 to 1806.

12.  Bath is a city in the county of Somerset in the South West of England.  The City of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.  Jane Austen lived in the city from 1801 with her father, mother and her sister Cassandra. She never liked the city.

13.  Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.  The village lies within the South Downs National Park and is famous for the fact that this is where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life and did almost all of her mature writings.

14.  This is the house where Jane Austen lived and wrote most of her novels.  A nice 17th century house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire not far from where she was born. …Cassandra's pen will paint our state, the many comforts that await Our Chawton home, how much we find already in it, to our mind….( from Jane Austen) Jane Austen's Writing Table and Chair, Chawton Cottage, UK, c. 1809

15. Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. It lies at the northern most point of Southampton Water at the confluence of the River Test and River Itchen, with the River Hamble joining to the south of the urban area. The local authority is Southampton City Council, which is a unitary authority.

16. Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1816) Northanger Abbey (1818) Persuasion (1818)

17. “ Pride and Prejudice” was first published in 1813 and was called “First Impressions”. Jane Austen called her work “…My own darling child…” The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of  manners  upbringing  morality  education and marriage in early 19th century England

18.  The growth of the protagonist is very important in the story.  Italian: Romanzo di formazione  German: Bildungsroman  English: Novel of manners (domestic novels)  The Bildungsroman is a literary genre which is about the growth (moral and psychological) of the protagonist.

20. JaneElizabethMaryKittyLydia Bingley Darcy Wickham Lady Catherine De Bourgh Georgiana Darcy Colonel Fitzwilliam Mr. Collins Charlotte

22. Elizabeth is the second daughter in the Bennet family. She is the most intelligent and quick- witted, and is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice. She has many important qualities. She is honest, lovely, clever, high- spirited, capable of great loyalty and generosity. She is very good at speaking, and doesn’t behave badly like some of the other characters. Sometimes she makes decisions too quickly. …”much of the moral burden of the family is on her shoulders…”

23.  Darcy is the son of a rich family and the master of the great estate of Pemberley.  He is intelligent, and, exactly like Elizabeth, tends to make decisions too quickly.  Handsome, tall, and intelligent, but rather antisocial, his aloof decorum and rectitude are seen by other protagonists as an excessive pride. ‘ Pemberley ’, the lavish estate of Mr Darcy himself, is largely Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

24.  They meet at a ball in Meryton and are immediately attracted to each other.  They are both cheerful, friendly, good-natured and always ready to think the best of others. Jane is Elizabeth’s beautiful elder sister and Mr.Bingley is Darcy’s wealthy best friend.

25.  Catherine,"Kitty“, Bennet is the fourth Bennet sister, aged 17. She is portrayed as a less headstrong.  Lydia Bennet is the youngest Bennet sister, aged 15. She dominates her older sister Kitty and is supported in the family by her mother.  Mary Bennet is the only plain Bennet sister. She works hard for knowledge and accomplishment, but she has neither genius nor taste.

26.  Mr. Bennet is the patriarch of the Bennet family, a gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters.  He has a sarcastic, cynical sense of humor that he purposefully uses to irritate his wife.  He possesses inherited property, it is entailed, so his daughters will be on their own upon his death.

27.  Mrs. Bennet is the wife of her social superior Mr. Bennet and mother of Elizabeth and her sisters.  She is frivolous, excitable, and narrow- minded.  She imagines herself susceptible to attacks of tremors and palpitations.  Her public manners and social climbing embarrass Jane and Elizabeth.

28.  Marriage Marriage  Money and property Money  Social class and lack of mobility Social class  Social decorum and reputation Social decorum and reputation

29.  The opening line of the novel announces:

30.  Marriage is the leitmotiv of the novel.  It turns out that rather than the man being in want of a wife, the woman is in want of a husband who is "in possession of good fortune".  Marriage becomes an economic rather than social activity.  The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet serves to illustrate all that a marriage relationship should not be.  Elizabeth and Darcy marry each other on equal terms after breaking their 'pride' and 'prejudices' and Austen clearly leaves the reader with the impression that the two will be the happiest.

31.  Much of the pride and prejudice in the novel exists because of the class divisions.  Darcy's first impressions on Elizabeth are coloured by his snobbery.  He cannot bring himself to love Elizabeth or at least acknowledge his love for her even in his own heart because of his prejudice.  His first proposal clearly reflects this attitude:  Also, Elizabeth quickly believes Wickham's account of Darcy because of her prejudice against him.  Lady Catherine and Bingley sisters belong to the snobbish category.

32.  Landed Gentry refers to the British social class made up of people who owned land who could live entirely from the rent paid to them from their land.  They were members of the aristocracy, but didn’t have peerage titles (like Sir or Lord or Duke).  They were usually the administrators of their lands.

33.  Money plays a key role in the marriage market not just for the young ladies who wish to secure a husband as rich as they can, but also for men who wish to marry a woman of means.  An example is Colonel Fitzwilliam and George Wickham who once tried to elope with Miss Darcy. Marrying a woman of a rich family also ensures a linkage to a high family as is visible in the desire of Bingley sisters to get their brother married to Miss Darcy.

34.  Person’s value depends on respect of friends and neighbours  Woman who engaged in inappropriate behaviour with a man prior to marriage was morally corrupted

35. Pride and Prejudice is set in the rural south-east England in the early 19° century, and describes the small world of a few families, the Bennets and the Bingleys, living in a country village of Longbourn in Hertfordshire, engaged in their routine of visits, balls, walks and gossip. In the Bennet family there are five daughters but no male heir, so their property will go to a cousin (William Collins). The story revolves around Elizabeth, an intelligent and witty, but not rich young woman and Mr. Darcy, a handsome and wealthy gentleman. Other courtships and adventures are also present in the background.

36. At the beginning, both characters have a good share of pride, and are conditioned by prejudice: Darcy is proud of his social position, and is not disposed to mix with people that he considered socially inferior. Elizabeth has her pride too, because even if she is not rich she is the daughter of a gentleman, and she does not like Darcy’s haughty behaviour. But they lose their pride and their prejudices when they find they are in love with each other:

38. Elizabeth: “Only true love can take me to the wedding, so I die an old maid.”

40. Useful Web sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice http://www.austen.com/pride/ http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janelife.html http://www3.hants.gov.uk/austen http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 http://www.bbc.co.uk http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/