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*Pride and Prejudice* Work Profile

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Pride and Prejudice Work Profile

This profile corresponds to Phase 1-B of the v3 skill. It was formalized on April 21, 2026, by working backward from the existing work completed between April 17 and 21, 2026.


Basic Metadata

Item Value
Original title Pride and Prejudice
Author Jane Austen (1775–1817)
Writing history First draft, 1796–1797 (First Impressions) → revision, 1811–1812 → publication, 1813
Source language English (Regency English)
Length Approximately 122,000 words / 61 chapters / 3 volumes
Base text Project Gutenberg eBook (PG1342)
Body-text lines 14,915

Narrative Classification

Genre

Level Value
Primary genre Novel
Secondary genres Novel of manners + romance + bildungsroman
Narrative mode Third-person limited narration + strategic use of free indirect discourse (FID)

Period

Level Value
Internal period 1811–1813 (Regency)
Period of composition 1811–1812 (contemporary with the story's internal period)
Basis for fixing the reference year “Monday, November 18th” (Chapter 13) → calculation of 1811 or another year in which that weekday and date align
Cultural sphere England—Hertfordshire (fictional setting) + Kent (fictional Hunsford) + Derbyshire (Pemberley) + London + Brighton
Class strata Primarily the landed gentry + aristocracy (Lady Catherine) + merchant class (the Gardiners)

Core Motifs

Ranked by their strength in the body text:

Motif Strength Evidence in the text
Class and social status ★★★★★ The entail, the Gardiners' “low connections,” and Lady Catherine's “shades of Pemberley thus polluted”
Marriage and courtship plot ★★★★★ Five marriage narratives, beginning with the opening sentence, “a single man... must be in want of a wife”
Family and lineage ★★★★★ The five Bennet sisters + Darcy and Georgiana + the Bingley sisters + the Lucas family + the de Bourgh family
Narratorial irony ★★★★★ Sustained throughout the work, from the first sentence to the last
Free indirect discourse (FID) ★★★★★ The central technique governing shifts into Elizabeth's perspective
Epistles and letters ★★★★☆ More than twenty-one letters; Darcy's letter in Chapter 35 is the turning point
Servants ★★★★☆ Hill, Mrs Reynolds, Nicholls, and Mrs Younge serve as narrative witnesses
Food culture ★★★☆☆ Dinner hours, venison, hothouse fruit, and other signals of class
Clothing ★★★☆☆ Ball gowns, bonnets, and petticoats
Music and sound ★★★☆☆ The pianoforte as a measure of accomplishment, quartets, and dance music
Bodily etiquette ★★★★☆ Ball etiquette, dancing, bows, and greetings
Foreign expressions (French) ★★★☆☆ tête-à-tête, ensemble, coup de grâce, and others
Architecture and space ★★★☆☆ Pemberley, Rosings, Netherfield, and Hunsford—place as character
Region and commerce ★★★☆☆ Meryton as a shopping town and Brighton as a resort
Travel and movement ★★★☆☆ Carriage journeys, marches on foot, and flight by stagecoach
Soliloquy and interiority ★★☆☆☆ Replaced by FID; formal soliloquy is rare
Medicine and illness ★★☆☆☆ Jane's cold, Mrs Bennet's “nerves,” and sea-bathing
Courts and crime ★☆☆☆☆ Wickham and Lydia's elopement is the sole case; legal procedures remain in the background
Religion and church ★★☆☆☆ Collins's clerical office and the Anglican marriage rite remain in the background
Fantasy and dreams ☆☆☆☆☆ None
Sailing and the sea ☆☆☆☆☆ None
Duels and revenge ☆☆☆☆☆ Mrs Bennet makes a fuss about the possibility of a duel, but none occurs
War and the military ★★★☆☆ The Napoleonic Wars in the background, the militia's stationing, and the purchase of commissions
Science and technology ☆☆☆☆☆ None
Philosophy and ideas ★☆☆☆☆ Enlightenment moral thought is only implied
Folklore and fairy tales ☆☆☆☆☆ None
Debate and rhetoric ★★☆☆☆ Elizabeth's rhetoric of rebuttal

Estimated Translation Difficulty

Item Assessment Basis
Vocabulary Many period terms (★★★★☆) More than twenty-five words whose period meanings differ from modern usage, including tolerable, civility, and agreeable
Syntax Long and complex (★★★★☆) Multi-clause sentences frequently exceed five lines; FID makes the speaker difficult to identify
Cultural distance Great (★★★★☆) Many institutions, including entails, purchased commissions, and the social season, have no direct equivalent in modern South Korea
Technical terminology Limited (★★☆☆☆) Mostly everyday vocabulary, but with period-specific meanings
Identifying the narrator Very difficult (★★★★★) The boundary between FID and direct narration is ambiguous; misidentifying it can reverse the meaning in translation

Special Considerations

  1. The title is the theme: Pride and prejudice are embodied separately by the two protagonists, then exchanged and resolved. Consistent translation of these two terms forms the backbone of the entire translation.
  2. The narrator's presence: Austen's narrator is an ironist who is “invisible, but always smiling.” This is the translator's greatest trap.
  3. The narrative function of letters: Darcy's letter in Chapter 35 is the physical and semantic center of the work. The quality of its translation governs the whole.
  4. The subtlety of class language: A five-step gradation among adjectives of favor—tolerablecivilagreeableamiablecharming.
  5. Meryton as a model town: Because the novel offers few concrete details, translation and adaptation require reconstruction of a standard Regency country market town.

This Profile's Decision → Phase 1-C Catalog

설정시트_목록.md is derived from this profile. Key consequences:

  • Primary genre = novel (general) → the complete G-N pack is required
  • Period = Regency → E-RG Regency Period Encyclopedia is mandatory
  • Fourteen motifs rated ★★★ or higher → adoption of a broad set of motif packs, including M-CL, M-MA, M-SV, M-FD, M-CO, M-MU, M-BO, M-FR, M-AR (three types), M-PL, and M-EM
  • Maximum FID/narratorial-irony intensity → maximum weighting for the G-N1 Narrator Guide
  • The narrative centrality of letters → the G-N4 Epistolary Collection is mandatory

→ Conclusion: 35 setting sheets in total (see 설정시트_목록.md for details)