P&P and Sorting Hat Chats: Darcy
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anghraineMore P&P + @sortinghatchats, following from Elizabeth’s Slytherin/Gryffindor sorting: Darcy!
I originally went for Slytherin Primary (driven by his own welfare and that of the people he’s attached to) + Ravenclaw Secondary (methodical, knowledge-loving problem-solvers), but I’m leaning towards Ravenclaw Primary (seekers of the most correct system for perceiving and engaging with the world) + Ravenclaw Secondary.
I did consider the other primaries, especially (of course) the Slytherin Primary. He absolutely prioritizes his own comfort and the well-being of what he calls his family circle above almost everything else, for good and ill. Elizabeth rightly condemns his self-centered indifference to most people—antithetical to her Hufflepuff model—but also (belatedly) realizes that his devotion to his sister and friends should have spoken to her (as a true Slytherin Primary).
Ultimately, though, Darcy’s focus on the personal follows less from nature than from a systematic set of principles he has absorbed and developed, which (however flawed) comprise his idea of the Correct Way of Being. His first inclination is always to stop and consult his system, only afterwards shifting into action, as with the letter in the quote above, or the six months it takes to decide that bringing Bingley and Jane back together is the correct course of action. And of everything that happens in the novel, he is most shocked and horrified at the idea that his system is inadequate and he has failed at the Correct Way of Being. True Ravenclaw that he is, however, he soon turns from anger to overhauling his system with what he has learned—but not by abandoning his adherence to systematized principle.
That is: Elizabeth is a Slytherdor who has developed a fragile Hufflepuff Primary model; she discards it with ease once her Slytherin Primary starts screaming about MY PEOPLE and MY HAPPINESS, and she dedicates herself to both with true Gryffindor fervour. Darcy is a blurry double Ravenclaw, with a Slytherin Primary model generated by his conscious, meticulous pursuit of what is most true and correct. He’ll do anything for the sake of those he cares about—but he has to think about it first.
I was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed.
I originally went for Slytherin Primary (driven by his own welfare and that of the people he’s attached to) + Ravenclaw Secondary (methodical, knowledge-loving problem-solvers), but I’m leaning towards Ravenclaw Primary (seekers of the most correct system for perceiving and engaging with the world) + Ravenclaw Secondary.
I did consider the other primaries, especially (of course) the Slytherin Primary. He absolutely prioritizes his own comfort and the well-being of what he calls his family circle above almost everything else, for good and ill. Elizabeth rightly condemns his self-centered indifference to most people—antithetical to her Hufflepuff model—but also (belatedly) realizes that his devotion to his sister and friends should have spoken to her (as a true Slytherin Primary).
Ultimately, though, Darcy’s focus on the personal follows less from nature than from a systematic set of principles he has absorbed and developed, which (however flawed) comprise his idea of the Correct Way of Being. His first inclination is always to stop and consult his system, only afterwards shifting into action, as with the letter in the quote above, or the six months it takes to decide that bringing Bingley and Jane back together is the correct course of action. And of everything that happens in the novel, he is most shocked and horrified at the idea that his system is inadequate and he has failed at the Correct Way of Being. True Ravenclaw that he is, however, he soon turns from anger to overhauling his system with what he has learned—but not by abandoning his adherence to systematized principle.
That is: Elizabeth is a Slytherdor who has developed a fragile Hufflepuff Primary model; she discards it with ease once her Slytherin Primary starts screaming about MY PEOPLE and MY HAPPINESS, and she dedicates herself to both with true Gryffindor fervour. Darcy is a blurry double Ravenclaw, with a Slytherin Primary model generated by his conscious, meticulous pursuit of what is most true and correct. He’ll do anything for the sake of those he cares about—but he has to think about it first.
