In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet defies these standards, as she rejects two marriage proposals and goes against the norms of society by marrying above her social class. Pride and Prejudice symbolizes the importance of marriage, wealth, morals, and social status through the relationship between Mr. ... Darcy's pride and her prejudices. ... Darcy soon overcome their pride and prejudices towards each other to realize the love and happiness they would bring to one another. ... In essence, Pride and Prejudice epitomizes the importance of wealth and social class dur...

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• Grade Level: High School

Pride and Prejudice is one of the first novel written in English language. ... (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Page 5). ... These attitudes are pride and prejudice. ... His pride and prejudice make people decide that "He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world" (P. 12). ... Same as Darcy at the beginning of story Lady Catherine is full of pride and prejudice. ...

• Word Count: 1942
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• Grade Level: High School

Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is a romantic novel which contains the constraints and privileges of men or women through their class. This was largely a result of the unwritten 'rules' current in the society of the time. The higher class ladies had more privilege than lower classes due t...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages.... Through an examination of her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, and with reference to her later 1815 novel Emma, it is evident that Austen's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. ... Examining the popularity of Pride and Prejudice today, it is clear that the ideas Austen raised then are, though found in different co...

• Word Count: 5516
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two texts that we read, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dicken's Great Expectations, both represent different courtship and marriage rituals taken from their perspective time periods. ... In Pride and Prejudice Austin shows that marriage was not an act of love, but rather an act of survival. ... In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. ... This is a quote from Charlotte Lucas, one of the female characters in Pride and Prejudice. ... Darcy in Pride and Prejudice and kept her guard up, to keep out men who were interested in only her money, she would not have been hurt as she w...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example, Two-Bit's switchblade is his most prized possession and, in several ways, represents the disregard for authority for which Greasers traditionally pride themselves. ... Since The Greasers do not have wealth to pride themselves in and possess power over other people, they use smaller inexpensive methods to form an identity and society of their own to gain power. ... But societies prejudices prevail and the Socs remain on the top and the Greasers on the bottom. ... This side of town is considered the poor side of town and the characters can fall under many labeling prejudic...

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• Grade Level: High School

The followers of the Enlightenment called for rebellion against superstition, fear, and prejudice. ... He continually attacked many members of the bourgeois about their pride and conceit in their lineage. Voltaire's first example of aristocratic attitudes of pride occurs very early on in the book. ...

• Word Count: 1280
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By "erasing" certain minority groups from the public eye, society has created a birthplace for strong prejudice against minority groups. ... Identity helps these women acknowledge their femineity and their culture as well as their sexuality and also instils a degree of pride. ...

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It is after Cher sees her own pride and her egocentric values, reflected off Tai (who insensitively says "a virgin who can't drive" that Cher is able to realise her folly. ... Heckerling shows that it is one's own arrogance and prejudice that stop them from being associated with good-natured people from a different social standing and is not the cause of the society of "Clueless". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Imagine, my dear friend, if you can," Tocqueville wrote back to France, "a society formed of all the nations of the world people having different languages, beliefs, opinions: in a word, a society without roots, without memories, without prejudices, without routines, without common ideas, without a national character, yet a hundred times happier than our own." ... The comfort and pride that American society enjoyed in the eyes of Tocqueville were far removed from the "selfish" adulation that comes with great and singular success. ...

• Word Count: 2003
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Statement of the Issue: The United States of America is a country that takes pride in having a thing called "equal opportunity" for all. ... Also the study concentrated on the black urban poor in order to exam prejudice and discrimination. ...

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