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For those of you wh...And finally, Arnie number III:<br />For those of you who enjoy my literary quizzes, I give the following NINE<br />hints (this is a very solvable quiz, ladies and gentlemen!); but, in all<br />events, as usual, I’ll reveal my answer and give my analysis, within the<br />next two days:<br /><br />ONE: There is a character in the Shakespeare play who, like Wickham, bites<br />his lips in anger.<br /><br />TWO: There is a character in the play who *twice *calls another character<br />“not sound”, just as Eliza says the following to BFF Charlotte Lucas:<br /><br />[Charlotte] “…it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of<br />the person with whom you are to pass your life."<br /><br />"You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is NOT SOUND. You know it is NOT<br />SOUND, and that you would never act in this way yourself."<br /><br />THREE: There is in an exchange in the play which is specifically echoed by<br />Miss Bingley’s withering criticism of Eliza’s suntanned appearance:<br /><br />"How very ill Miss Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy," she cried;<br />"I never in my life saw anyone so much altered as she is since the winter.<br />She is grown SO BROWN and COARSE! Louisa and I were agreeing that we should<br />not have known her again."<br /><br />So far, these hinted echoes may sound trivial, but the remaining hints<br />make clear that this is not a casual allusion, it goes to the heart of *Pride<br />& Prejudice*, specifically how we are to think about Elizabeth, Darcy,<br />Wickham, and another major character in P&P to be named later—see Hint<br />EIGHT, below.<br /><br />FOUR: There is a character who, like Mrs. Bennet, is on a determined quest<br />for a male to preserve the family “inheritance”.<br /><br />FIVE: There is a charismatic, manipulative character in the play who takes<br />a precipitous—dare I say, Satanic?---fall from grace, because of some shady<br />financial and other dealings, very much like that described in the<br />following passage about Wickham in P&P:<br /><br />“All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months<br />before, had been almost an ANGEL OF LIGHT. He was declared to be in debt to<br />every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the<br />title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.<br />Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and<br />everybody began to find out that they had always distrusted the appearance<br />of his goodness. Elizabeth, though she did not credit above half of what<br />was said, believed enough to make her former assurance of her sister's ruin<br />more certain…”<br /><br />SIX: That same character described in Hint FIVE, above, is explicitly named<br />in one of Jane Austen’s juvenilia, in a passage that is significantly<br />echoed by this letter from Mrs. Gardiner to niece Elizabeth Bennet: "Pray<br />forgive me if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so<br />far as to exclude me from P[emberley]. I shall never be quite happy till I<br />have been all round the park. A low PHAETON, with a nice little pair of<br />ponies, would be the very thing.”<br /><br />SEVEN: There is a very powerful, noble male character in the play who casts<br />his eye on one particular young lady, who is described as having a<br />vivacious, charismatic personality—and by the end of the play, they have<br />indeed married, and that young lady gets to be “mistress” of a real life<br />“Pemberley” -albeit, not for very long.<br /><br />EIGHT: There is an enigmatic character in the play who has exactly the same<br />name as a key character in P&P, and who (according to my reading of the<br />shadow story of P&P) plays a similarly crucial behind the scenes role in<br />both the play and in P&P.<br /><br />NINE: (For those diligent souls who go so far as to do a Shakespeare word<br />search) The play is NOT *Coriolanus, Taming of the Shrew, *& *Richard III *---<br />it’s the fourth one! ;)<br /><br />Happy sleuthing, y’all- --- as I said, I’ll be back….in two days with my<br />best explanation as to what it all means!<br /><br />Cheers, ARNIE<br /><br />@JaneAustenCode on Twitter<br /><br />================================================================<br />Austen-l current archives: http://list2.mcgill.ca/archives/austen-l.htmlDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396312339372162866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-57088480922083512902016-06-01T07:03:29.827-07:002016-06-01T07:03:29.827-07:00And Arnie continued:
“…And so, my dear sister, I f...And Arnie continued:<br />“…And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt, that you have<br />actually seen Pemberley."<br /><br />She replied in the affirmative.<br /><br />"I almost envy you the pleasure, and yet I believe it would be too much for<br />me, or else I could take it in my way to Newcastle. And you saw the old<br />housekeeper, I suppose? Poor Reynolds, she was always very fond of me. But<br />of course she did not mention my name to you."<br /><br />"Yes, she did." "And what did she say?"<br /><br />"That you were gone into the army, and she was afraid had—not turned out<br />well. At such a distance as *that*, you know, things are strangely<br />misrepresented."<br /><br />"Certainly," he replied, BITING HIS LIPS….<br /><br />What emotion was Wickham leaking? Was it anger, like Lucy (who, you’ll<br />recall, becomes Lucy Ferrars à Lucifer, after she marries), or anxiety, or<br />a combination of the two? I was also reminded of the angry thumb-biting of<br />Montague at Capulet in the first scene of *Romeo & Juliet*:<br /><br />SAMPSON Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a<br />disgrace to them, if they bear it.<br /><br />ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON I do bite my thumb, sir.<br /><br />ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON [*Aside to GREGORY*] Is<br />the law of our side, if I say ay?<br /><br />GREGORY No. SAMPSON No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I<br />bite my thumb, sir.<br /><br />That encouraged me to check to see if any Shakespeare play in which a<br />character bit his/her lips---as opposed (ha ha) to their thumbs--and I<br />found four of them. After looking them over, and sleuthing things out, I’ve<br />now concluded that one of them is indeed a Shakespeare play which JA<br />intentionally tagged, when she wrote the seemingly trivial detail that<br />Wickham bit his lips.<br /><br />Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396312339372162866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-54092886261226916152016-06-01T07:02:14.654-07:002016-06-01T07:02:14.654-07:00On behalf of Arnie:
A few days ago, Diane shared a...On behalf of Arnie:<br />A few days ago, Diane shared a post at her blog *Jane Austen & Other<br />Writers * by her colleague Tom Flynn…<br /><br />…about his own personal Jane Austen journey. My eye was caught by something<br />he wrote about Elizabeth Bennet’s and Mr. Wickham’s final encounter in *Pride<br />& Prejudice*, after Wickham has just married Lydia:<br /><br />“Elizabeth’s economical and layered response both condemns him and also<br />permits him to save face, should he choose to do so. She reports that the<br />housekeeper said “That [Wickham] had gone into the army, and she was afraid<br />had—not turned out well. At such a distance as that, you know, things are<br />strangely misrepresented.”<br /><br />Austen reports that Elizabeth intends this information to silence Wickham,<br />and he does bite his lip. Yet Wickham emerges from this first encounter<br />relatively unscathed. He has not been so wounded that he considers<br />retreating; rather, he adopts the dangerous strategy of returning to one of<br />his earlier misrepresentations.” END QUOTE FROM FLYNN POST<br /><br />What caught my eye was that Wickham “bites his lip”. Jane Austen is<br />typically sparing in such nonverbal details, and so I checked the context<br />of that usage in P&P, to get a hang on this unusual detail (only one other<br />Austen character bites her lip: Lucy Steele in *Sense & Sensibility* --in<br />anger at her sister). Was this a clue to a covert allusion by to some prior<br />literary work in which lips are bitten?:<br /><br />Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396312339372162866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-69219134121157530762016-05-30T13:01:22.550-07:002016-05-30T13:01:22.550-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05461974174669561409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-16491911123850999742016-05-30T12:55:47.097-07:002016-05-30T12:55:47.097-07:00Thank you. As a French student, I do not always un...Thank you. As a French student, I do not always understand the central place that is given to Jane Austen; it sometimes seems being "fan" more than critic since said critics and scholars feel emotionally implied in their research. I understand better this attitude thanks to this post, and it reconciles me somewhat with Miss Austen (I am partly joking, of course).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05461974174669561409noreply@blogger.com