Her obsession with getting all of her five daughters married is illustrated in the quote, "The business of her life is to get her daughters married." She is a foolish and frivolous woman, with no concern for the moral or intellectual education of her daughters. Her sole aim is to see her daughters married and through her shallowness she is in unable to even perceive the shame in Lydia's behavior involving Mr Wickham and is absolutely delighted by the thought of her marrying. In Mrs Bennett's character the ridiculous obsession, during Austen's time, with marriage is highly exa...

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit deals with the relationship breakdown between mother and daughter. ... She does not hate her but she is unable to show her any feelings, not the conventional mother-daughter relationship one would imagine. ... For example Jeanette describes an event in which they sing hymns together, she says her 'Mother sang the tune and [she] put in the harmonies' Although this is true literally, this could also be interpreted metaphorically in that without one another they are not complete, the tune would not be complete without the harmonies as a daughter is not c...

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Jane and Bingley marrying each other is feminist because the marriage was not arranged and not for economic purposes, they get married for true love which before this time period was very uncommon. ... Elizabeth is the second of six of the Bennet children and is shown to be her father's favorite of his daughters because they are so similar, he is characterized as "an individualist to the point of eccentricity" (Moore 5). ... Bennet much like his daughter Elizabeth is one of the most progressive characters in the novel. ... Bennet's need to be formally introduced to Bingley by saying ...

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Mrs Bennet's determination to marry her daughters is a direct result of financial concerns. ... "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. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... When he continuously ignores her refusal, she is forced to show her position as different to "thos...

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During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a hierarchy of social birthright in an orderly system of strict proper etiquette, gentility and formal addresses. ... In Emma, Mr Woodhouse is a fussy invalid who is obsessively concerned with his and others' health while Mel Horowitz loves fattening food, is indolent and aggressive when he wants to be, "anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel-. ... In Austen's time, manners were important so only situational humour and irony were the main forms of humour. ...

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Even though now Emma is considered a canonical text, during the time of first publication it would have been perceived the same way as Clueless (just another "teen flick"). ... Emma believes Harriet is the daughter of "somebody" and through this delusion she embarks to make Harriet part of her society as she believes Harriet's "soft blue eyes should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connections". ...

• Word Count: 1760
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate