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Pride, Prejudice, and the Architecture of Misjudgment — Homework
Read the assigned chapters covering the Meryton assembly and Wickham's introduction before answering.
- 1.Explain how the title's two flaws, pride and prejudice, map onto Darcy and Elizabeth.
- 2.Quote or paraphrase Darcy's insult of Elizabeth at the assembly.
- 3.Why does Elizabeth accept Wickham's story about Darcy so readily?
- 4.In four or more sentences, explain what the Wickham deception suggests about how prejudice shapes the way a person reads new evidence.
- 5.Describe a time, in your own life or from something you have observed, when someone accepted a claim about a person more readily because it matched what they already believed.
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