My sophomore year of high school, I was required to read your book "Pride and Prejudice." We were given four weeks to finish this Romantic novel out of class, along with weekly in class check-ups. Although I found that your book was composed of a well developed plot and a large fan base, it was not one of my favorites. Surprisingly, however much I love listening to girls talk about their feelings, reading about them was a much more unfavorable experience for me. I have detailed in this letter a few reasons why your book does not top my list of favorites.
I understand that you grew up during a time in which dowry's were socially acceptable and old english was the only proper way to talk to be accepted into society. However, had it been written in a present day setting and with current social stigmas, perhaps I would have liked it more. As a fifteen year old boy I did not find this diction easy to comprehend. It took me double the time to read this complicated language than it would have if it were to be written in modern english. I understood the majority of the satire presented throughout the novel, but found no personal humor within it. It's nineteenth century customs and old english prose were both major turn off's for me, but that is just a personal preference of mine.
I also thought that the novel was extremely drawn out. Why did you make it over a year before Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy could finally end up together? I understand that certain "proper " precautions had to be taken during that time for men and women to date, but a year? Slow communication and plodding travel would slow things down, but I still feel as if a few dinner parties could have been taken out of the story to make room for more exciting and dynamic scenes. Besides, how could they have been so in love if they barely had enough alone time to get to know each other well? I might just be an inexperienced seventeen year old boy, but that part of the novel seemed a little far fetched to me.
Jane Austen, whom some critics consider England's best novelist, was born in 1775 in Steventon, England. ... Austen died in 1817, at age forty-one, from Addison's disease. ... Emma, which appeared in 1816, was the last novel published during Austen's lifetime. ... Some consider Emma Austen's best and most representative novel. ... Nor do we know how harshly Austen expects us to judge Emma's behavior. ...
Satire is used in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen to show the deficiencies in morals and ethics of the characters that Austen disapproves of. ... Collins letter, Mr. ... Collins letter contained a "mixture of servility / and self importance" (56 Austen). ... Wickham because he sends a letter to the Bennets saying that they have a "faulty degree of indulgence" (246 Austen). ... Jane Austen also disapproves of her. ...
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Jane Austen, the famous 18th century novelist, inherited the tradition of using letters and giving them a natural shape in the form of dialogues and further, making them a successful fictional composition. ... Jane Austin has used the concept so beautifully that it does not look odd or superfluous at any stage of the action but rather, the implication or even the introduction of a letter seems like natural phenomena. ... To create the interest and form an intriguing situation in the novel, Jane Austen uses the device of misdirecting a letter: Jane's letter about the critical situation of ...
In comparing Jane Austen's Emma with Amy Heckerling's Clueless one can see the vitality of the language working together with the visual images to successfully create the overall message of both narrative texts. ... In doing so however, the message does not change, it simply allows today's society to better understand and appreciate Jane Austen's text. ... Austen is limited to the tool of language throughout the rest of her novel. ... While Jane Austen has frank write a long letter of explanation for his behaviour in order to fill the gaps of how and why certain events occ...
Bennet receives a foolish letter from the Reverend Mr. ... In his letter, Mr. ... (Austen, 198) In this case, Austen forms the character of Mr. ... This letter Mr. ... In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses letters to present qualities in Mr. ...
The Characterization Of Catherine Morland And Details Of Her Experiences As Criticism Of The Gothic Novel Jane Austen consciously refers to and comments on the standards and conventions of the gothic genre in her novel Northanger Abbey. ... Austen is exaggerating to the point of humor as she brings a lot of attention to such a mundane compliment given from a father to his daughter. ... After Catherine's former opportunistic friend, Isabella, sent a letter, "its (the letter's) inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her (Catherine) from the very first. ... Austen...
As Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen starts out "IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ... Jane Austen writes a narrative story, taking place in the 18th century. Jane Austen used the idea of using characters to express their personal views the most. ... Jane Austen expresses the idea of feminism, how usually they are subservient to males. ... IF you take out certain letter and rearrange them, they form words like "poisasdn" and "assdfj" words, which are believed to be of Aramaic descent. ...
Pride and Prejudice The novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is centred on the Bennet family, a family consisting of Mrs Bennet, a rather silly, flighty woman, Mr Bennet, a man with a dry sense of humour, and their five daughters. ... Austen shows her main characters in this novel to suffer from both pride and prejudice. Jane Austen rarely describes a character's physical attributes, allowing the reader to visualise as they like, but uses dialogue to allow us to make our minds up about the various characters. ... Elizabeth is thrown into Darcy's company when her sister J...
Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice falls victim to this practice in relation to Fitzwilliam Darcy after their first encounter. ... Another view of the nature of George Wickham is clear within Darcy's letter to Elizabeth after his first proposal. ... A certain instance would be during Jane's disturbance of Mr. ... Hearing upon Jane's malcontent and Mrs. ... You will hardly bear to be long outdone by Jane. ...
