He describes how she uses symbols such as reading, music, and walking to present her characters in accordance with the novel's themes. ... These walks associate her with her art-nature characteristics (Moler 54). ... The first time is at Netherfield in the drawing room, and the second is in the shrubbery at Netherfield (Moler 54). It is also symbolic that Darcy's first proposal to Elizabeth takes place in a sitting room, and the second is on a country walk (Moler 54). ... Moler presents his views on the symbolic motifs in Pride and Prejudice in a very positive and descriptive ma...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This novel had many conflicting themes characters and it was able to show how the themes of prejudice, pride, and fate were tied in with the relationship between the characters Mr. ... Bingley was viewed as a very agreeable man. ... Darcy was viewed as cold and arrogant, partly because he refused to dance with any of the females. ... Darcy merely said anything and simply left the room. ... The theme of fate lies right here when Mr. ...

• Word Count: 776
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This novel had many conflicting themes characters and it was able to show how the themes of prejudice, pride, and fate were tied in with the relationship between the characters Mr. ... Bingley was viewed as a very agreeable man. ... Darcy was viewed as cold and arrogant, partly because he refused to dance with any of the females. ... Darcy merely said anything and simply left the room. ... The theme of fate lies right here when Mr. ...

• Word Count: 775
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel the theme of love is heavily linked with money but seems to be of less importance when discussing it along with money, this is shown within the opening paragraph of 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". ... By mentioning both marriage and money within the opening paragraph the reader is given the impression of what the two main themes could possibly be and also the significance money may hold over love. ... Bennet is not concerned if her daughters marry for love...

• Word Count: 1392
• Approx Pages: 6

This period of societal enlightment, which preceded the class struggles among the aristocracy and bourgeois, is a prominent and reoccurring theme in the novel. ... Bennet, lose this credibility when contrasted with Elizabeth. ... Bennet is viewed as a sensible individual and often shares with Elizabeth in criticizing the ridiculous behavior of Mr. ... Following Elizabeth's engagement with Mr. ... "Wholly inattentive to her sisters feeling, Lydia flew about the room in restless ecstasy." ...

• Word Count: 1088
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What we read is just the opposite; a single woman must be in want of a man with a good fortune. ... The comic tendencies displayed in the novel's language introduce a theme very important to the novel "the character's laughter and their attitudes towards laughter as an index to their morality and social philosophy. ... She tells her sister, she fell in love with Darcy after seeing his estate at Pemberly. ... But it is this assertion of her "liberty- that reveals Jane Austen taking a more conservative view of humor. ... When she returns to Longbourn with Wickham, she is "Lyd...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

A perfect example Auerbach gives is the anticipation and waiting at the drawing-room, "before the gentlemen came.... From an optimistic view, even if Jane hadn't been so lucky, if all of the three females followed Elizabeth's example of learning, would they have all ended up happily in marriages of love and fortune (i.e. does Austen use Elizabeth's story as a formula for female readers to follow so they can find marriages of love and fortune?)? Or, from a more pessimistic view, did the marriages of these three females, Elizabeth, Jane, and Charlotte, turn out the way they d...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With great irony and wit Austen shows how the tenderest human feelings interact with and are influenced by financial considerations. ... It lies in the interest of a woman to marry a man with a fortune, or at least some good deal of money. The husband is meant to support his wife, since he is the one with a profession and she is not. ... Or as Jane says when she hears of Lydia's elopement with Wickham: "So imprudent a match on both sides!... A blunt restatement of this sentence would read, " it is an acknowledged truth in our particular society that a single woman without a fortune mu...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School