Jane Austen In Jane Austen's books she is not only the official role, but also the narrator or commentator. ... Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, England. ... Another example of relating her own experiences to her novels was that Jane Austen loved a good ball ("Jane Austen-, British authors of the nineteenth century). ... Jane Austen's popularity has grown over the years. ... The case of Jane Austen is very different, some say it is remarkable. ...

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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice presents a new type of heroine. In her novel, she did not portray a traditional heroine like Jane Bennet. ... Austen inverted this traditional image of the heroine to come up with a new type of a realistic one. ... She is not as pretty as Jane, but her character is very attractive and worthy of respect. ... In conclusion, Austen's new heroine is not a goddess. ...

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JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen's family background.- She was born on 16th December in 1775 at Steventon in Hants. ... Jane Austen and her sister attended to Abbey School, Reading (1784 -1785). Jane Austen's father and his religious ideas and the political consecuences, has a very important influence in Jane Austen and her attitude. ... Jane Austen's family suffered for it. ... Jane Austen wrote some short pieces of fiction before writing her mature novels. ...

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Persuasion Persuasion, Jane Austen's last finished piece of work, is very different from her earlier novels. ... Researchers now argue how Austen's failing physical condition during the last year of her life affected her work. ... Several other incomplete novels were published after Austen's death. ... Her letters have been published as Jane Austen's Letters (1932; revised edition, 1952). Popular interest in Jane Austen and her novels grew during the 1990s, in part because of motion-picture and television adaptations of Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, a...

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Jane Austen, whom some critics consider England's best novelist, was born in 1775 in Steventon, England. ... Austen died in 1817, at age forty-one, from Addison's disease. ... Emma, which appeared in 1816, was the last novel published during Austen's lifetime. ... Some consider Emma Austen's best and most representative novel. ... Nor do we know how harshly Austen expects us to judge Emma's behavior. ...

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"Jane Austen has nothing to say to the twenty-first century reader. ... In this area, Jane Austen has nothing to say to the twenty-first century reader. ... In the case of love, Jane Austen has nothing more to say to the twenty-first century reader. ... Jane Austen's view was a commonly held belief, but was only short-lived. ... Jane Austen, as a moral writer, has nothing to say to the twenty-first century reader. ...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages.... "5 Once an attraction has formed between Bingley and the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Mrs Bennet manipulates the situation and sends Jane to Netherfield on horseback during a storm, hoping she will catch a cold. Her plan having worked, Jane must stay in Bingley's care until recovered. ... Bingley and Jane's eventual union is an exception to Charlotte's contention that "happiness i...

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Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jane Austen's Persuasion, both advocate the ideal woman, in many ways by contrasting how the protagonists in the novels, Jane and Anne, act to how an "ideal woman" should look and behave. ... Also, Jane repeatedly regrets her bluntness as shown on page 659 in Jane Eyre. Jane have just declared her hatred towards Mrs. ... In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated" (Austen, 251). ... Austen and Brontë both wrote to advocate that women do not have to follow all old norms and beh...

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Throughout novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Austen creates a sense of pleasure and disquietude for the readers. ... Jane's is nothing to it-nothing at all," (Austen 255). ... (Austen 15). ... He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I shall never dare refuse any thing, which he condescended to ask," (Austen 254), and so are Jane and Mr. ... With Jane Austen's input of pleasure and disquietude throughout the plot of "Pride and Prejudice," a healthy confusion is crafted for the readers. ...

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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. ... In her early twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were late published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey. ... Some readers wonder whether the childhood of the character Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey might reflect her own personal childhood. As a young lady Jane Austen enjoyed dancing and she attended many balls in the neighborhood. ... Austen died on July 18, 1817. ...

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Jane Austen is able to critique society as well by sharing her opinion in this novel. ... Jane Austen is showing that Catherine is not the ideal reader. ... Jane Austen is able to show the importance of reading. ... However, Jane Austen does show characters growing through out the book. ... We see Jane Austen's doing this in many ways. ...

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." - Jane Austen This opening line of Pride and Prejudice could well describe the whole point of her book. With this single short statement, Jane Austen declares a couple of things essential to her novel. ... In Jane Austen's time it wasn't so. ... While the drive of Austen story is getting the Bennet girls married, Austen incidentally examines marriage itself, and its effect on five different couples. ... Jane Austen, as we perceive thought her novel, is totally against the whole concept of marriage. ...

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This concept that nineteenth century women authors have strayed from the predominantly masculine literary world, is illustrated in Jane Austen's Emma through her characters' actions and behaviors. ... Authors such as Jane Austen had to conform to patriarchal standards set not only in literature, but society as well. ... Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Erye was condemned in life by Bertha Mason and later released from her constraints, so was Mr. ... Churchill's passing, not only was Frank free to marry Jane Fairfax at his will, Mr. ... Jane Austen reverts back to an a...

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Match maker match maker make me a match -"Emma" written by Jane Austen -Published by Penguin Books -Review by Rosemary Higgerson. ... Written by Jane Austen and published in 1815, Emma is the entertaining story of a young, lively woman, who devotes her time and energy into match making between friends and acquaintances. ... Indeed Austen's talents lie in her accurate depiction of everyday life and vivid character profiles. ... One reason why the books seem so realistic, is that Jane Austen used to combine real places, and events with fictional characters and plot. ... The class dis...

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Marriage As A Social Contract In Jane Austen's "Pride And Prejudice" "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". With these famous words, Jane Austen launched into what has come to be regarded by many as the greatest romance novel of all time. ... However, it is also apparent that Austen is in support of the traditional Burkean notion of family and marriage, as the novel finishes with both Jane and Elizabeth happily and prosperously married to men who are their social betters. ... Marriage in the time of Jane A...

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In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen takes a look at the rules of love, courtship, and marriage during the Regency. ... As Jane Austen illustrates, when rules are imposed upon this special feeling, it isn't special anymore. ... In her subtle and eloquent way Jane Austen depicts how love can never be true love when rules are involved. ... Jane Austen is pointing out that during this period the rules made it so even a married couple didn't show each other affection. ... Jane Austen illustrates this point, through the love triangle of Willoughby, Marianne, and Ms. ...

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Jane Austen successfully demonstrates to the reader the idea of social destiny. ... Jane Fairfax is portrayed by Austen as a pleasant young lady of Emma's age who serves as a foil to her. ... This is the typical dream of a lady with low social standings, which Jane Austen successfully demonstrates. ... Jane Austen shows with Harriet that in her exploration she demonstrated that all is not necessarily what it is destined to be. ... Jane Austen shows what would happen to a girl if she was to marry a man a high social standings person in the character of Jane Fairfax, but she totally chan...

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Jane Austen successfully demonstrates to the reader the idea of social destiny. ... Jane Fairfax is portrayed by Austen as a pleasant young lady of Emma's age who serves as a foil to her. ... This is the typical dream of a lady with low social standings, which Jane Austen successfully demonstrates. ... Jane Austen shows with Harriet that in her exploration she demonstrated that all is not necessarily what it is destined to be. ... Jane Austen shows what would happen to a girl if she was to marry a man a high social standings person in the character of Jane Fairfax, but she totally chan...

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Dashwood sisters are very different from each other in appearance and temperament; Elinor's good sense and readiness to observe social forms contrast with Marianne's impulsive candor and warm but excessive sensibility. ... Despite some amusing characters and true Jane Austen touches, it is not generally considered to be her best novel. ... In an age which extolled the virtues of expressing emotion and being sensible to the beauty of nature and literature, Jane Austen wrote a novel to champion sense and moderation. ...

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In Jane Austen's literary classic, "Pride and Prejudice," Austen attempts to influence the audience into sharing her views on women and the importance of marriage. ... Jane Austen uses Elizabeth Bennet to put forward her perspectives on marrying for love. ... During Jane Austen's time, a situation like this wasn't ever considered. ... Although Austen values getting married for love, Mrs. ... Jane Austen had intentionally arranged her audience so that they would be influenced to agree with her values and beliefs on the importance of marrying for love. ...

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In comparing Jane Austen's Emma with Amy Heckerling's Clueless one can see the vitality of the language working together with the visual images to successfully create the overall message of both narrative texts. ... In doing so however, the message does not change, it simply allows today's society to better understand and appreciate Jane Austen's text. ... Austen is limited to the tool of language throughout the rest of her novel. ... While Jane Austen has frank write a long letter of explanation for his behaviour in order to fill the gaps of how and why certain events occ...

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Satire in Pride in Prejudice In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen attacks the idea of marriage for money and social standing. ... When Jane goes to visit the Bingley's, Mrs. ... Her plan works, but instead of just having to stay the night because of the rain, Jane falls ill. ... He infers his desire to propose to Jane, and upon finding from Mrs. ... In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses satire to bring about a social change. ...

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"Pride and Prejudice" was written by Jane Austen in 1813. ... It is a combination of their education and the fact that they are such outspoken young ladies that makes Jane and Elizabeth such good examples of early feminists (Dabundo 40-44). ... The eldest of the Bennet children, Jane, shows this new affective individualism by marrying Bingley. ... Austen uses Lady Catherine as a character who is juxtaposition to Elizabeth Bennet. ... Based on the thoughts and actions of characters of Jane and Elizabeth readers can determine that "Pride and Prejudice" is in fact a feminist novel. ...

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Satire is used in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen to show the deficiencies in morals and ethics of the characters that Austen disapproves of. ... Jane Austen also disapproves of her. ... This goal of hers almost cost one of her daughters her life, Jane Bennet. When Jane was going to go visit the Bingleys, her mom wouldn't let her take the carriage because she said, "You had better go on horseback, / because it seems likely to rain and you must stay all / night" (28 Austen). Her plan worked too well because instead of just getting a cold, Jane had a fever, and when Mrs. ...

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