Email: Justine.duhalmel@wanadoo.fr & marie@laruffie.fr Title of the Excerpt: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Year of appearance: 1813 ( year of publication) ____________________________________________________________ _________________ Overview Analysis Textual Analysis: (general) • Historical Background: 18th century (period when Jane Austen lived: 1775- 1817) - Women’s conditions were really difficult: really important to get married to have
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So it’s a Meryton Assembly ball‚ where Austen arranges the rendezvous of her heroes and heroines. The dancing at the ball is integral to develop a type of relationship she anticipates. It’s a time of perfect pleasure for many of the girls and their families from Elizabeth’s neighborhood. Jane’s and Bingley’s chemistry in this ball‚ as Austen depicts‚ completely matches with each other. The Meryton ball works as a catalyst to advance a love between Jane and Bingley‚ they exchange amorous glances since
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO Departamento de Letras Modernas - Área de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês Curso de Leituras do Cânon 1 – Evening Class Profª Drª Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos A SHORT ANALYSIS OF PERSUASION‚ BY JANE AUSTEN São Paulo 2010 “Anne Elliot‚ with all her claims of birth‚ beauty‚ and mind‚ to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen‚ in an engagement with a young man who had nothing but himself to recommend
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Purpose Austen is a gifted satirist‚ who uses ridicule‚ mockery and ironic humour to condemn social vices (character flaws). Snobbery‚ selfishness and slander are subtly rebuked‚ and virtue‚ morality and sincerity condoned instead. The novel‚ however‚ does not become a moral tract for comedy is used to demonstrate that personal attributes such as curtesy‚ generosity of spirit and integrity are recognised as the true signs of gentility. Unattractive (personality‚ etc - not physically) individuals
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acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife.” (Austen 3). With the popularity of the Enlightenment‚ female authors came out of the shadows and started displaying their work for all the world to see. Jane Austen‚ being one of them‚ took a stance on upper class society in 19th Century England‚ by mocking the standards of the elites. By using irony and humor to do so‚ Ms. Austen grabs the reader’s attention‚ by having characters that are relatable to readers in
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In the novel Emma‚ by Jane Austen‚ the town of Highbury may be associated with safety and security. However‚ events and emotions prove otherwise. Danger‚ pain and risk are more common in Highbury than safety and security. Safety and Security are believed to be encountered in the quaint town of Highbury. Emma‚ being in a high social class had much security. The reason she was a part of a high social class was because she was a member of one of the richest families in Highbury. This came with security
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In Jane Austen’s Emma‚ two main characters‚ Mr. Knightley and Emma seem to have opposing views and cannot gain common ground. “There is one thing‚ Emma‚ which a man can always do‚ if he chuses‚ and that is‚ his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing‚ but by vigor and resolution. It is Frank Churchill’s duty to pay this attention to his father. He knows it to be so‚ by his promises and messages; but if he wished to do it‚ it might be done. A man who felt rightly would say at once‚ simply and resolutely
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are born to‚ affects an individual for their whole life. In Jane Austen ’s novel Emma‚ the realities of social hierarchy and social mobility are challenged through various forms of narrative. Austen creates a network of relationships throughout the community of Highbury through seemingly unimportant conversations to explicit declarations of feelings with her use of free indirect discourse. The novel revolves around the main character‚ Emma and her
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EXTENDED RESPONSE Emma/ Clueless- Love and Marriage The novel Emma by Jane Austen is a comedy of manners set in the early nineteenth century. The context of this time placed a particular emphasis on how‚ who one married. Subsequently the novel Emma which‚ deals with the everyday lives and concerns of people‚ reveals many insights into the idea of love and marriage. One particular idea presented is notion that marriage is very much determined by one’s social class and making a match below
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Emma Woodhouse: Awake or Dreaming? A dream. A world where ideas run wild and imagination is the primary mode of thought. Reality is a faraway distance. Eventually‚ the dream comes to an end as reality creeps into sleep and the fantasy finishes. The story of Jane Austen’s Emma is one of a similar account. Emma Woodhouse‚ the main character‚ has an active imagination that causes her to loose sight of reality like getting lost in dreaming. Her imagination and “disposition to think a little too well
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