Key quotations — Pride and Prejudice — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Pride and Prejudice, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'It is a truth universally acknowledged', 'She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me', 'I am not romantic, you know', 'In vain have I struggled', 'the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry', 'Till this moment I never knew myself', 'Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?', 'By you, I was properly humbled' and 'I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy'.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
