Significance of Places

We opened the lesson by discussing how the place a person lives affects what our view of what they will be like is. For example, a clean and tidy house will give you a different impression of the inhabitants than a messy, dirty house.

Following this, we discussed the importance of places in Pride and Prejudice and what they represented. Netherfield, for example, is linked to Bingley. As it is rented, it means he will only be around a short time, so anyone with the intent of marrying him will have to be quick, so adds a time constraint to the novel. It is also nearby Longbourn, so shows that wealth is almost in reach for the Bennetts.

We then planned an answer to an essay which was 'write about the significance of the ways the two writers you have studied used places in their narrative', in which I focused upon Jessie Cameron and Cousin Kate along with the use of Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice.