Pride and Prejudice

The only opportunity for extra credit this 6 weeks is this weekend. See the THS Theatre production of "Pride and Prejudice" and you'll get daily grade extra grade extra credit. Write a 600-1200 word essay and you'll receive major grade extra credit. Here are the essay prompts:

1. Research the changes in the English social structure during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Show how attitudes in Pride and Prejudice toward the newly wealthy middle classes, who earned their money through trade and manufacturing, differed from those toward the landed gentry who inherited their generations-old wealth.

2. Research gender roles in the English social structure during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. how does Pride and Prejudice break conventions in its relationships between the sexes.

3. In a novel or play, a confidant (male) or confidante (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently the result is, as Henry James remarked, that the author sometimes uses this character for other purposes as well. Choose a confidant or confidante from Pride and Prejudice and write an essay in which you discuss the various ways the character functions in the play.

Remember, your well-developed essays are to be 600-1200 words (typed). Include quotes (may be from other works) and specific references to the play to support your thesis.

Below are some pictures taken during the publicity shoot for the THS production.

More information about the THS production of Pride and Prejudice is available here: http://www.thespiansr.us/