A Recurring Game
Pride or Prejudice?
Seven turning points of the novel, each posing a question. Choose your reading — then learn what Austen may have intended. There is rarely a single answer.
At the Meryton assembly, Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth, declaring her 'tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.'
Pride or Prejudice?
Elizabeth hears Wickham's tale of Darcy's cruelty and believes it at once, never asking for Darcy's side.
Pride or Prejudice?
Darcy proposes at Hunsford, declaring his love while cataloguing Elizabeth's inferiority of family.
Pride or Principle?
Elizabeth refuses Darcy's first proposal with anger and contempt, unmoved by his station.
Pride or Principle?
Caroline Bingley mocks Elizabeth to Darcy at every turn — her complexion, her family, her dress.
Jealousy or Social Ambition?
After reading Darcy's letter, Elizabeth walks alone and reconsiders everything she believed.
Humility or Surrender?
Darcy secretly pays Wickham's debts and arranges the marriage that saves Lydia — and asks no credit.
Love or Honour?