One of Jane Austen's classics, Mansfield Park: The enlightened story tells the story of the niece of an aristocratic family. ... There she adapts to the environment and people living in Mansfield Park: Sir Thomas, wife, daughters Julia and Maria, sons Tom, and Edmond, friends the Crawfords, Henry and. ... Many problems are faced for the family: Maria's lust for Henry, Henry's heart for Fanny Price, a grown relation between Edmond and, and Tom's illness and hatred towards his father's slavery business. ...

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Bennet's second daughter. ... Bingley and Jane, the oldest Bennet daughter, meet they hit it of immediately. ... Darcy's godson, he was supposed to inherit a position in the curch but after Darcy's fathers death Darcy decided that Wickam didn't deserve anything. ... She is one of five daughters from a well-respected family. ... The story is engaging at every stage. ...

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Women hope to find a rich husband that can care for them; in particular are the Bennet's, a family with five daughters whose father's estate is entailed to a distant relative when he passes. The mother is desperate to see them get married and when they hear about the Bingley's (a wealthy household), and she attempts to get one of the older daughters to commit to marriage with Mr. ... She rambles about how Bingley's sisters are proud and full of themselves, but do not notice how her own foolish daughters, Kitty and Lydia, are exposing the family to ridicule with their wild b...

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He amuses himself by pestering his foolish wife or making insensitive remarks about his daughters. ... He laughs at her total obsession with finding suitable husbands for her five daughters. Elizabeth is to some extent similar to her father's cynicism. ... Bennet reads the letter to Elizabeth and voices his thorough amusement, for he believes that Darcy has no interest in his daughter. ... The focal point of the story's situational irony is Darcy falling in love with Elizabeth. ...

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The story takes place in England between the times of 1796 and 1813. ... Elizabeth Bennet lives in the village on Longbourne with her five sisters, mother and father. Her mother is a very superficial woman and continuously thinks about having her daughters married off to fine, young rich men. Whenever new gentlemen arrived in town the daughters were on a constant lookout. ... This is where the theme of prejudice ties in to the story. ...

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The story takes place in England between the times of 1796 and 1813. ... Elizabeth Bennet lives in the village on Longbourne with her five sisters, mother and father. Her mother is a very superficial woman and continuously thinks about having her daughters married off to fine, young rich men. Whenever new gentlemen arrived in town the daughters were on a constant lookout. ... This is where the theme of prejudice ties in to the story. ...

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A gentle but witty satire of courtship an marriage, tells the story of how the young ladies choose their husbands. ... Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly an hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to it. ... Marriage is central for all characters in the novel: not just daughters and sons, but parents, aunts, uncles and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. ... It is not appropriate for the daughter to choose whoever she likes for her husband, which she- if she wants a happy marriage- is not very likely to ...

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Plot The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. ... Many other areas of the country are visited in the duration of the story including the Lake District, London, Brighton and many other places. ... As in any love story, the lovers must elude and overcome many problems, beginning with the tensions caused by the lovers' own characteristic qualities. ... Courtship In a sense, Pride and Prejudice is the story of two courtships "those between Darcy and Elizabeth and between Bingley and Jane. ...

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Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local parish and taught her largely at home. ... The story is set some point during the Napoleonic wars (1797-1815) in Longbourn, a rural area in England. ... Bennet, a foolish, noisy woman, is desperate to see all her five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia married. ... The love story in Pride and Prejudice is one of the most classic ones I have ever read. ... While facing with her noisy mother, a distant father, two badly behaved younger sisters; she has to cope with Catherine's attemption, miss Bingley's snobbery and W...

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This is a particularly sensitive matter in the Bennet household, where five daughters need to find husbands before the passing of their own father to avoid being left homeless due to the rules of entail in 19th century England. ... Elizabeth is the fiery second daughter of Mr. ... This is where Darcy really proves himself the hero of this story. ... When the story started, as a reader I found myself agreeing with Elizabeth that Darcy probably was a snob looking prejudicially down towards Elizabeth. By the end of the story, it becomes clear that Darcy is indeed a good man and that it is ...

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Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance . . . her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer the long evening." ... Emma finds this quite an enchanting story because of the mystery in Harriet's background. However, she chooses to believe that Harriet is in fact the daughter of a gentleman and therefore deserves a lot from life. ... This is because Emma and her father are one of the most influential people in their town because of their wealth and the respect that they have gained. ...

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Amy Heckerling's film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen's Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. ... 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". ... Cher's popularity arises from her affluent father and her fashion sense. ... A perfect example of this is when Cher has persuaded and negotiated with her teachers to change her grade...

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Her father, the Rev. ... The story is somewhat unsatisfying because Marianne's change of heart is hastily discussed in a paragraph at the end of the novel. ... Dashwood and her daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, are cruelly deprived of their home and inheritance on the death of the girls' father. ... She said the song was her late father's favorite. Later on in the story, Marianne kept on nagging Elinor for not sharing her feelings. ...

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An unmarried woman without a substantial amount of savings to rely on upon her father's death, however, risked falling into poverty. ... 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. ...

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These are the two main characters in the book, Jane 22 and Elizabeth, the heroine of the story, 22. ... This seems rather pathetic of their mother, wanting her daughters to marry a man just because he has money, but it is soon revealed that the Bennet's are rather poor and if Mr Bennet were to die they would loose the house and be left destitute. ... Elizabeth is a sharp and perceptive person, she "has a quickness- which makes her stand out form her other sisters and makes her father's favourite daughter. ...

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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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INTRODUCTION It is truth universally acknowledge that a good novel in possession of a good love story must be in want of a screen adaptation. ... The main task here is to capture the essence and spirit of the story. The through-line and major sub-plot of the story are determined in a film and the rest features of a novel have to be viciously cut out. ... Light and dark have conventional associations built over generations of visual art and story telling. ...

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The story begins somewhere in September. Chapter 2 John Dashwood and Mrs John Dashwood have a conversation about the promise John made to his father. ... Chapter 7 Mrs Dashwood and her daughters are having dinner at Mr John Middleton's house, for Mr John has invited them. ... He does not want to explain why, but Mrs Jennings guesses that it has something to do with his daughter Miss Williams. ...

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Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... They are also both manipulative as seen in both characters' desire to control such as Emma's manipulation of her doting febrile father and Harriet, parallel to Cher manipulating Tai and Mel through affection. ... 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,...

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Northanger Abbey is a novel that is about more than a girl who is looking to find a husband. Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated...

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