In Pride & Prejudice, there are two main issues that backbone the novel: pride & prejudice and love & marriage. "Jane Austen has nothing to say to the twenty-first century reader. ... Discuss this criticism in relation to Pride & Prejudice. ... Put aside your pride and prejudices, and get to know a person before judging them. ... In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's view of love has become the basis for the typical love story. ...

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"Pride and Prejudice" was written by Jane Austen in 1813. ... Some people may argue that Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was written entirely prior to the feminist movement. ... The changing world of the early 19th century although male dependent is a way Austen was able to highlight the feminism in "Pride and Prejudice." ... 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. ... This independence the women are able to exert showcases the main points of the feminist perspective on pride and pr...

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Introduction Pride & Prejudice was written by British author Jane Austen in 1796-1797 and was first published in 1813. ... It is these prejudices, which in part drive him to come between Jane and Bingley. ... Location Pride & Prejudice is mainly set in Longbourn, rural England. ... Through the Darcy-Elizabeth and Bingley-Jane marriages, Austen shows the power of love and happiness to overcome class boundaries and prejudices, implying that such prejudices are empty, unfeeling, and unproductive. ... Courtship In a sense, Pride and Prejudice is the story of two courtships "those ...

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Jane Austen In Jane Austen's books she is not only the official role, but also the narrator or commentator. ... Her most understandable influence was in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility ("Jane Austen-, British authors of the nineteenth century). ... She enjoyed to dance and meet new people, as did her characters in Pride and Prejudice. ... Her last home was Chawton Cottage where she got the manuscripts of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice ready for publication. ... Jane Austen's popularity has grown over the years. ...

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(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. ... It is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization and romanticism, but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and realism of the characters as they develop throughout the story. Jane Austen's irony is devastating in its exposure of foolishness and hypocrisy. ... (pg.143) The characters on Pride and Prejudice are full of moral, social and human values. ... Jane Austen's major w...

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Social Atmosphere Portrayed through the Ball Scene Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, contains numerous scenes involving parties or other social occasions. ... This scene thoroughly portrays the society to which they belong, as well as the pride, prejudice, and general feelings of superiority of many of the characters. ... After the ball, Elizabeth remarks " I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine- (Austen 13). ... He also considers no one to be attractive enough to dance with except Jane Bennet, who is already engaged in dancing with Bingley. ... The ball sc...

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Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has delighted readers for nearly two hundred years. How has Austen's novel been so successful and still remain one of the world's most commonly read books? ... These aspects are brilliantly brought out in Pride and Prejudice. ... "It is a pitch-perfect piece of social commentary, brilliantly dissecting the foolish, class-based prejudices of its characters, from the too-proud Mr. ... Aside from the priceless gossiping, Pride and Prejudice brings what many readers look form a happy ending, and most of all, true love....

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Pride and Prejudice: Part One 1. ... It was said that her sister and she were extremely close, much like the characters of Elizabeth and Jane in Pride and Prejudice (Mural 1). ... In her lifetime, Jane wrote 6 major novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. ... In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. ... Jane Austen does a thorough job of creating a theme for her novel Pride and Prejudice. ...

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Books, 1950. 2a) A theme expressed in Pride and Prejudice is pride and prejudice itself. ... Through her novel, Jane Austen shows that love is the greatest pleasure as well as the greatest pain, and that love can overcome any obstacle. ... Pride and Prejudice is a story about young women looking to find marriage. ...

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Throughout novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Austen creates a sense of pleasure and disquietude for the readers. ... Austen produces pleasure In "Pride and Prejudice" by adding humorous characters to keep readers engaged in the text. ... Jane's is nothing to it-nothing at all," (Austen 255). ... With Jane Austen's input of pleasure and disquietude throughout the plot of "Pride and Prejudice," a healthy confusion is crafted for the readers. ... "Pride and Prejudice" is a prime product of a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude....

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" The Bible dictates for individuals to live without pride, but accounts from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice shows how difficult it was for Mr. ... During Charlotte's conversation with Jane she announces her feelings towards Mr. Darcy when she says, "he is at up with pride"(Austen 20). ... Darcy's pride was unavoidable, but now "They could not be untouched by his politeness" (Austen 252) Typically Darcy's rudeness could not be avoided but now people are finding it difficult to avoid his politeness. ... The bible communicates the negative conseque...

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Course: Advanced English Teacher: Chao Guohui Student: Lin Can No.1023 Faculty of English Language and Culture Date: Dec.3rd 2003 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Jane Austen, the author of pride and prejudice, was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for twenty-five years of her life. ... She began to write while in her teens and completed the original manuscript of Pride and Prejudice, which was then titled First Impression, between 1796 and 1797. ... In her work, Austen is often critical of the assumptions and prejudices of upper class. ... The love sto...

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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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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". ... What, then, is Austen's stance towards marriage as seen in "Pride and Prejudice"? ... "Pride And Prejudice" was no exception to this rule. ... When we say then that marriage in Jane Austen's "Pride And Prejudice" can be viewed as being a kind of social contract, we mean in so far as it enabled the women of the time to amass fortune and social respect, and allowed their men to protect th...

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These similarities are common throughout both of Jane Austen's novels. ... In Pride and Prejudice, the Bennet family has five unmarried girls, and Mrs. ... In one way or another the characters in Jane Austen's novels are related in some way to the title. ... Bingley has for Jane, they allow their pride to blind them. ... In both of Jane Austen's novels you can look at the similar themes in the books Pride and Prejudice has three main themes which are love, reputation, social class each of the characters must overcome many obstacles. ...

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Persuasion Persuasion, Jane Austen's last finished piece of work, is very different from her earlier novels. ... Yet Sanditon, the novel she startd a few months before her death and left unfinished, explores uncertainties of appearance and the difficulties of reasoning, with a confident method and an expressive tone that shows improvement even from Pride and Prejudice and Emma. 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 ...

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Pride and Prejudice The novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is centred on the Bennet family, a family consisting of Mrs Bennet, a rather silly, flighty woman, Mr Bennet, a man with a dry sense of humour, and their five daughters. The recurring themes of this novel are, as the title says, pride and prejudice. ... Austen shows her main characters in this novel to suffer from both pride and prejudice. ... In conclusion, it can be seen that both the main characters in this novel suffered from both pride and prejudice. Austen has manipulated the reader to share the same prejudices as Eliz...

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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. ... The central theme of Pride and Prejudice is based on the concerns of people in early nineteenth-century country society. ... In Jane Austen's time it wasn't so. ... Jane Austen, as we perceive thought her novel, is totally against the whole concept of marriage. ...

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The title of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, can be interpreted as a theme running throughout the movie. Pride, is very common. ... Austen was trying to send the message that an excess of pride or vanity is harmful. ... His pride is very obvious. ... She prides herself on not being prejudice in judging and rational in the judgement of others. ...

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Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. ... " One of the basic issues that the novel Pride and Prejudice revolves around is marriage. ... In Pride and Prejudice, we see a clash between the Augustan and the Victorian thinking processes. ... This shows us the inner workings of Jane Austen's mind. ...

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Women and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by a woman about the role of women in the eighteenth century. ... Pride and Prejudice is an excellent example of all the different types of marriages of the time period. ... Jane Austen's disapproval of this marriage is quite evident by the way she portrays Charlotte Lucas throughout the novel, and she looks down on Charlotte's character for basically selling herself. ... Throughout the novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are many different types of marriages of the time that are portrayed. ... The ma...

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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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There are three main themes in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. ... The novel is shown through the view point of Elizabeth Bennet, and Elizabeth is a representation of Jane Austen; she lives in the same era and an author's views are shown in their novels, and in Pride and Prejudice the views are shown through Elizabeth. ... The first way in which Austen constructs the correctness of her viewpoint of marriage for love and reason is through the marriage of Jane Bennet and Mr. ... The third major theme represented in "Pride and Prejudice" is Moral belief & behavior. ... The most...

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In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen presents the reader with a very good idea of how people during this time period viewed marriage through the characters in the novel. ... Characters in novel marry for other reasons that are not based on love however, some characters married for love regardless of the prejudices against a certain class. ... The theme of marriage is stated in the first sentence of the novel " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife p. 3" Jane Austen means that any man of wealth must be the...

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