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Pride N Prejudice Allusions
Pride N Prejudice Allusions
[H]e is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the
house by the end of next week.
This is an allusion to the Christian festival that occurs on September 29 and celebrates the
Archangel Michael, who, according to the Christian faith, defeated Satan in the war in heaven.
Volume I, Chapter VI
“Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un
better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not
imagine that much has been unfolded.”
This quote contains allusions to two card games that were popular during the novel’s setting.
Volume I, Chapter IX
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.
This is an allusion to a line in Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love,
play on; / Give me excess of it[.]”
Volume III, Chapter VI
All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man, who, but three months before, had been
almost an angel of light.
This is a biblical allusion to 2 Corinthians 11:14, which states, “Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light,” a reference to Satan’s propensity to deceive.
Well, I was so frightened I did not know what to do, for my uncle was to give me away; and
if we were beyond the hour, we could not be married all day.
This is an allusion to a law at the time of the novel that stated that all marriages had to be
performed between 8 a.m. and noon to be legal.