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Pride And Prejudice: Reflective Tone And A Provoking Discourse

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In the short passage extracted from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the author utilizes an assertive tone and a provoking discourse to highlight the distinct division between the two classes. Austen uses precise word choice to create an assertive tone for Miss Bingley, thus allowing Miss Bingley to express her strong opinions on the difference between the social classes. In her remark about the dance she said “to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a pleasure” (Austen 41) this suggests that to have a ball with people from a lower class would be a penalty to people from the upper class. The words “punishment” and “pleasure” indicates how Miss Bingley feels about having a ball with the different classes. The word “punishment”
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