Darcy's Letter Rhetorical Analysis Essay

The tone of this passage is immediately established through Jane Austin calling to attention Elizabeth’s feelings after reading Darcy’s letter. In a third person narrative the audience learns of Elizabeth becoming completely ashamed of herself; setting the tone of self-condemnation through immense disapproval of her own prejudices. The use of the third person narrative gives insight to what is going on around the character whilst also giving a more encompassing insight into how they are feeling.

Elizabeth’s thoughts turn from Darcy and Wickham and focuses instead on condemning herself on how “despicably” she has acted in ignorance. Austin uses a wide ranged of verbs and adjectives throughout this passage to give strong emphasis towards how Elizabeth is truly feeling, and to let the audience experience her reactions and responses as she reads the letter over. Words like distain, humiliate, wretched, and ignorance draws up a strong image to the extent of how Elizabeth is feeling, and it has have an impacting sound that puts strong emphasis on her being ashamed. First person pronouns are

Austin has calculably measured the sentence lengths in this passage to build up tension that correlated with how the character is emotionally feeling. The short and choppy sentences reflect Elizabeth’s current thought process as she mulls over the letter and demand attention with the extensive use of exclamations. Austin’s use of the short sentences give a resonating effect as she builds up to the last two sentences of the passage. Prepossession, ignorance and reason serve as a microcosm on what’s taking place in the entirety of the story. It was in prejudice conditions that Elizabeth courted prepossession and ignorance, and in coming to the recognition of her prejudice to others came forth her sense of pride, alluding to both the main themes and title of the