Chapters 24 to 35 — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Chapters 24 to 35
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Jane in London, Elizabeth's visit to Charlotte at Hunsford, Lady Catherine at Rosings, Darcy's first proposal and his letter.
Key quotations: 'The more I see of the world the more am I dissatisfied with it', 'Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then', 'handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain', 'Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with strongly-marked features', 'she likes to have the distinction of rank preserved', 'My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me', 'In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed', 'You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you', 'the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry', 'Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter', 'that total want of propriety'.
Structure: the first proposal at the centre of the novel, and Darcy's letter, which gives his side of the story about Wickham and about Jane and Bingley.
Context: rank and deference at Rosings, and money as a limit on whom anyone can marry, from Wickham's pursuit of Miss King to Colonel Fitzwilliam's position as a younger son.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
