PERSUASION- Social Class Flashcards
Sir Walter Elliot on his daughters
“His two other children were of very inferior value. Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove; but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister.”
Sir Walter Elliot vanity
“Sir Walter Elliot”… “never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one”
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character;
vanity of person and of situation.”
The dalrymples
“Lady Russell confessed she had expected something better; but yet “it was an acquaintance worth having;”..”Mr Elliot agreed to their being nothing in themselves”
Mr Elliot
“Mr Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks
only of himself”
Opinions on wentworth
“Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen”…”with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him”
“to be snatched off by a stranger without alliance or fortune”
“Captain Wentworth had no fortune”
“He thought it a very degrading alliance”
