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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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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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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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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The novel, "Persuasion," by Jane Austen, comes at a time when the wealthy class of people had started losing the strong hold to power and wealth within the community. ... I would not portend that Austen made attempts to show that nouveau riche position is post preferred compared to landed gentry. ...

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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. ... 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 object of desire by all women. ...

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As Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen starts out "IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ... Jane Austen writes a narrative story, taking place in the 18th century. Jane Austen used the idea of using characters to express their personal views the most. ... Jane Austen expresses the idea of feminism, how usually they are subservient to males. ... Austen uses her characters to prove a point and her ideas. ...

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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. ... This view is rejected by Elizabeth and thusly by Austen. ... 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. ... So when Bingley proposes to Jane the r...

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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. ... Darcy's prideful character was so terrible that every one at the ball agreed that, "He was the proudest most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again"(Austen 13). ... 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 "T...

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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. ... Austen uses the character of Charlotte Lucas, who marries Mr. ... Austen shows this kind of class-consciousness life, particularly in the character of Mr. ... 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. ...

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(Austen, 2006, P3) Austen's use of the words 'good fortune' projects the importance of money within a relationship between men and women. ... Bingley and Jane Bennet. ... Bingley and Jane are in love. ... Bingley to not propose to Jane, "I observed them most carefully and realized his attachment was far deeper than hers.... I think that Austen did want to show in the end of the novel that love holds more importance when both Jane and Elizabeth marry someone that they love even though they are of a higher social standing, but in my opinion I believe that his is shown mon...

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Jane Austen, the famous 18th century novelist, inherited the tradition of using letters and giving them a natural shape in the form of dialogues and further, making them a successful fictional composition. ... Jane Austin has used the concept so beautifully that it does not look odd or superfluous at any stage of the action but rather, the implication or even the introduction of a letter seems like natural phenomena. ... To create the interest and form an intriguing situation in the novel, Jane Austen uses the device of misdirecting a letter: Jane's letter about the critical situation of ...

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One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. ... Darcy he will not allow Elizabeth's sister, Jane and Mr. ... Austen concludes the novel by allowing all the characters what he each individually deserves. ... Whikham, while her sister Jane marries her true love Mr. ... Through these aspects of her novel Austen shows her traditional writing style. ...

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In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour", and "Rope", many of the major conflicts revolve around problems within a relationship or marriage. ... The two novels written by Jane Austen encompass several instances in which characters start to fall in love with each other, yet with very unstable beginnings. ... Bingley is separated by his family from his much-loved Jane because of her low social class. ... Austen shows us how love can overcome any difficulties or obstacles because of the potency it carries. ... Although Austen...

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Discuss Jane Austen's presentation of marriage in Pride and Prejudice, and why she considers Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship to be the most desired model of marriage. There are many themes around marriage, through her presentation and symbolism, which Jane Austen portrays with this book; she lays out the different reasons and extremities for marriage between the different characters in the book. ... Maybe Jane Austen tries to imply that women have more importance to the male than it seemed at that time. ... Elizabeth knows and has been hoping for a perfect marriage, like Jane ...

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" "Pride and Prejudice," the acclaimed novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. ... Chadha clings more closely to the comedic way in which Austen captures socially constructed ideals of gender and class, through the use of specific rules of Bollywood film, which in itself if a means for expressing a cultural identity, to accomplish a contemporary social critique, which is very similar in form to the one that Austen performs. ... There are many instances where the film blends song and dance in a way that links it to the work of Austen. ... " She replies, "A little," even thou...

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However, Jane Austen points out the dangers of marriage when it is not based on equal love. In the time that Jane Austen was writing, it was essential for a woman to get married and Austen understood this only too well because she never married. ... Jane Austen's views are portrayed through Elizabeth Bennet. ... In Jane Austen's time, Lydia's loss of dignity would have resulted in exclusion from her family and respectable society. ... Jane Austen's view on marriage is not totally cynical as at the end of the novel there are two happy marriages. ...

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In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice a wide variety of personalities are presented some are well developed while others are just mere caricatures. ... Jane Austen uses Wickham's character to demonstrate how looks can be deceiving and you have to be careful not to judge to quickly. ... Furthermore, Mr Darcy is evidently a well developed character in Jane Austen's novel. ... Despite this, other characters in Jane Austen's novel are incredibly well developed with fully developed characters. ... This combination of characters in incredibly effective in Jane Austen&#x...

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Jane Austen uses a variety of verbal, dramatic, situational and irony through the novel. ... She is critical of Jane for being "blind" to others. ... Austen is very good at using irony to reveal her character. ... She tells Darcy that he has a propensity to hate people and has shown his prejudice against Wickham and Jane. ...

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Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous British authors from the Victorian age. ... Jane Austen makes use of an elegant language, containing a lot of wit and free indirect discourse. ... Jane Austen's sense of humor is clearly expressed during the whole extract of "Mr Collins' proposal". ... In this way you can also find social critique in Jane Austen's use of humor, because she made tragi-comic situations out of things that were normal customs at her time. In many ways, we can call Jane Austen a transitional author. ...

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