ETHNOGRAPHY ANALYSIS ON "Pride and Prejudice" MOVIE

 

Title                  : Pride and Prejudice

Year                  : 2005

Time Length    : 02:08:17

By                        : Ifti Luthviana

Synopsis           : the story is about the Bennet’s family which has five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Lydia, Kitty, and Marry. The mother has a mind that her children must marry a young noble man because they will life happily. So, she tries to match her children with any noble man. Mr. Bingley, a very noble man, falls in love for the Bennet’s oldest daughter. In the first ball, Mr. Bingley comes with his sister and his friend, Mr. Darcy, a noble man who has a very cold personality. Lizzie thinks that Mr. Darcy is not a good man because of his manner, so do Mr. Darcy thinks about her. In the story, they finally understand each other. They realize that their prejudice of each other wrong. In the end of the story, they finally marry each other and live happily together.

Scene                : 01:18:25 - 01:18:49

 

Transcript        :

Aunt      : Lizzie, you're welcome to accompany us.

Uncle     : The Peak District is not Brighton. Officers are thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

Aunt      : Come to the Peak District with us, Lizzie, and get some fresh air.

Mary      : The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

Lizzie     : Men are either eaten up with arrogance or stupidity. If they are amiable, they have no minds of their own.

Aunt      : Take care, my love. That savours strongly of bitterness.

 

Characters     :

·         AUNT             

·         UNCLE          

·         MARY          

·         LIZZIE         

ANALYSIS

S (Setting)

 Time : In the evening.

Place : In the Bennet’s dining room.

 

Situation Mr. Gardiner:

The situation and the mood of conversation are quite easy going since Uncle only supports Aunty’s intention that is asking Elizabeth to go to Peak District. There, she can meet few men that not as much as in Brighton. Maybe one of them will be choosen to be her husband.

 

Situation Marry:

The situation and the mood of the conversation is quite serious because it is the aunt and uncle’s effort to ask Lizzie to join with them for going to the Peak. Yet, Marry tried to break her uncle and aunt’s belief by underestimating their suggestions.

 

Situation Lizzie:

The situation and the mood of the conversation are quite serious because Lizzie talk about something related to her belief to her Aunt and Uncle and Mary. Moreover, the facial expression of Lizzie shows us that Lizzie has different view from the others people around her. It seems that Lizzie tries to ignore her Aunt and Uncle suggestion with a strong statement.

 

Situation Mrs. Gardiner:

The situation and the mood of the conversation are quite easy and cheerful. The aunt asks Lizzie to come with her with her smiling face. She cares about Lizzie’s situation and tries to change the atmosphere.

P (participant)

Uncle (Mr. Gardiner)

 Mr. Gardiner is Mrs. Bennet’s brother-in-law, so he is Elizabeth’s maternal uncle. He works as a merchant. He is intelligent and cultivated man. Though he is in a lower social class than Mr. Bennet, he is respectful and distinguished.  

Mrs. Gardiner

 She is the aunt of Lizzie and her sisters. She lives in London with her husband, Mr. Gardiner. She is a kind woman who cares of others. She also is willing to hear others’ story. She is not a clumsy nor a super excited person, she can place herself well in every situation happened in the story. 

Elizabeth Bennet / Lizzie

 Elizabeth Bannet or Lizzie is the second daughter of Mr. Bannet and Mrs. Bannet. She is so intelligent and fond of investigating people’s characters. 

Merry Bennet

 She is the third daughter of Bennet family, she prefer to read some books than socialize with her surroundings.

E (ends)

Uncle   : The Peak District is not Brighton. Officers are thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

Mr. Gardiner:

 By saying it, Uncle just wants to support what are the aunt’s speaking. He expects that Elizabeth want to accompany her aunty to go to Peak District. He compares the number of man in Peak District with Brighton. 

Aunt      : Lizzie, you're welcome to accompany us.

Aunt      : Come to the Peak District with us, Lizzie, and get some fresh air.

Aunt    : Take care, my love. That savours strongly of bitterness.

Mrs. Gardiner:

 The main purpose of the dialogue is to insist her cousin to go with her and her husband to make Lizzie feels better after what has been happened. She thinks that it will be good for her to change the atmosphere. 

The evidence:

Mrs. Gardiner  : Lizzie, you're welcome to accompany us.

è First invitation

Mrs. Gardiner  : Come to the Peak District with us, Lizzie, and get some fresh air.

è Second invitation.

Mrs. Gardiner  : Take care, my love. That savours strongly of bitterness.

Sarcasm to decline Elizabeth’s thought about man in the district. 

Lizzie     : Men are either eaten up with arrogance or stupidity. If they are amiable, they have no minds of their own.

Lizzie:

 Actually, Lizzie wants to say no to ignore her Aunt and her Uncle suggestion to go to The Peak District to see some gentlemen work as officers to influence her decision about her future husband, but instead of saying no she says her view on how bad men are and based on her statement about that we can see that Lizzie no longer think about her future husband. 

Marry  : The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

 Marry:

 From the statements, Merry bennet tries to engage aunt’s suggestion of saying get some fresh air to Lizzie. In my point of view, Merry tries to reveal aunt’s hidden intention to ask Lizzie to go to the Peak District. As Merry’s characteristic is antisocial person, so that she uses sarcastic and strong sentence in engaging someone’s opinion.

 

Evidence:

Mary    : “The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and  mountains?”

 

A (act sequences)

Aunt    :Lizzie, you're welcome to accompany us. (1)

Uncle   :The Peak District is not Brighton. Officers are thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

Aunt    : Come to the Peak District with us, Lizzie, and get some fresh air. (2)

Marry  : The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

Lizzie  : Men are either eaten up with arrogance or stupidity. If they are amiable, they have no minds of their own.

Aunt    : Take care, my love. That savours strongly of bitterness. (3)

Mrs. Gardiner

Directives à Mrs. Gardiner expresses a request to Lizzie to accompany her and Mr. Gardiner to go to The Peak District.

Directives à Mrs. Gardiner expresses a suggestion that going to The Peak District will give Lizzie some fresh air.

Expressive à Mrs. Gardiner expresses psychological states to calm Lizzie’s worriedness and not so good opinion.

 

Mr. Gardiner

Representatives à Mr. Gardiner expresses a statement of fact about The Peak District and something that would influence Lizzie’s decision.

 

Marry

Directives à Marry proposes an inquiry about the comparison between men and rocks and mountains.

Lizzie

Representatives à Lizzie strongly expresses an assertion about her own point of view on who the real men are to answer Marry’s inquiry. 

K (key) 

The conversation on the scene shows an informal situation because there is no formal addressing between the speakers that they are a close family. They are serious in the conversation because they try to join to be a decision maker for one’s (Lizzie’s) decision about her future husband. 

I (Instrumentalities)

From the conversation on the scene, we can see that the language used by the speakers is very informal. Proven by the choice of words and their addressing on each other.

 

Aunt    :Lizzie, you're welcome to accompany us.

Uncle   :The Peak District is not Brighton. Officers are thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

Aunt    : Come to the Peak District with us, Lizzie,and get some fresh air.

Marry  :The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

Lizzie  : Men are either eaten up with arrogance and stupidity. If they are amiable, they have no minds of their own.

Aunt    :Take care, my love. That savours strongly of bitterness.

N (Norms)

In the scene, Mr. Gardiner uses the word “officer”. It means that in their culture, having a husband who is an officer or a noble man is something that everyone dreams. With regard to it, considering the social level before getting married is necessary.

G (Genres)

Mr. Gardiner:

His dialogue is assertion because he only states the fact that supports his wife’s words.

 Mrs. Gardiner:

The two of her dialogues are directive requests because she asks Lizzie to come with her to go to the Peak District. Yet, the last dialogue is expressive psychological because she uses the word “my love”.

 Marry:

The genre used by Merry is directives in the kind of questioning. In the scene, Merry uses question words such as what and question sentence to convey her true intention. Actually, she wants to strengthen aunt’s intention in suggesting Lizzie to go to the Park District. 

Lizzie:

The genre used by Lizzie is representative in the kind of asserting. In the scene, Lizzie tries to express her thought about men strongly as she is very keen on investigating people’s characters. She has passed many occasions in trying to find her future husband until finally her Aunt and Uncle try to take their part to help Lizzie deciding who her future husband is. Based on that psychological feeling, Lizzie might feel so upset about her Aunt and Uncle suggestion and she strongly states her belief in front of them.