MEJE PROCESS · Pride and Prejudice Worldbuilding Data (74 chapters)
*Pride and Prejudice* Work Profile
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
- 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.
- The narrator's presence: Austen's narrator is an ironist who is “invisible, but always smiling.” This is the translator's greatest trap.
- 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.
- The subtlety of class language: A five-step gradation among adjectives of favor—tolerable → civil → agreeable → amiable → charming.
- 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)