In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen successfully incorporates various social and mental awakenings that, in turn, serve as significant turning points in the novel. ... Therefore, it is by utilizing using mental and philosophical awakenings in accompaniment with contrasting outcomes that may result from these awakenings, that Austen is able to produce a feeling of suspense and anxiety, by causing the reader to continually ask him/herself "what happens next?" ...

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Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ...

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