Location
Commons
Start Date
10-10-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
10-12-2013 4:45 PM
Description
Many of the social interactions in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are reliant upon decidedly ambiguous rules. The characters in the novel are constantly toeing a line between trying to express their feelings in a forthright manner and restricting themselves in order to maintain propriety. No one knows how to maintain a balance between these two actions, as a result, true feelings are hardly ever properly expressed, and their ability to form connections suffers. All of the characters endure this unfortunate phenomenon.
Repository Citation
Gray, Laura, "Toeing the Line: The morality of dancing Pride and Prejudice and Regency culture" (2013). Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial. 2.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/celia_pride/preconference/posters/2
Toeing the Line: The morality of dancing Pride and Prejudice and Regency culture
Commons
Many of the social interactions in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are reliant upon decidedly ambiguous rules. The characters in the novel are constantly toeing a line between trying to express their feelings in a forthright manner and restricting themselves in order to maintain propriety. No one knows how to maintain a balance between these two actions, as a result, true feelings are hardly ever properly expressed, and their ability to form connections suffers. All of the characters endure this unfortunate phenomenon.
