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

In a sense, "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of two courtships - those between Darcy and Elizabeth and Bingley and Jane. ... Of course we can also relate marriage to happiness, and happiness to one's freedom in society; something which is strongly challenged in both "Pride and Prejudice" and Orwell's "1984." ... Control is the most evident theme throughout the entire book, both mentally and physically. ... Colley see's "Pride and Prejudice" as a "deliberate essay in fantasy.... Colley see's "Pride and Prejudice" as a &qu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. As mentioned, the portrayal of society's look towards marriage, education, and justice is done thoroughly in Pride and Prejudice. ... In the first pages of the book, the underground man explains, "I am not at all the jolly sort of person you think I am, or may think I am." ... By the end of the book, when you think he might end up with ...

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The book reveals Tess's life, how the first-presented innocent girl turns into a tragic heroine. ... Tess's sense of responsibility for her family is one of the book's most important elements. ... She has no money and now, her pride is what stops her to be happy. ... She puts her pride away and writes a letter to Angel for help. ... She is always afraid of what others will say or think, she suffers under the prejudices of the society. ...

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Marriage, as the couples in the book would have it, should be based entirely on love. ... In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lydia's marriage to Wickam was regarded as a scandal because they ran off to Scotland and eloped without telling anyone. ... People in the book treated it as something of unspeakable shame. ... The men in this book also have a very exceptional attitude in related to this matter. ...

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• Grade Level: High School