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Pride and Prejudice is nowadays regarded as Jane Austen’s most enduringly popular novel. It was first published in 1813 and is a rewritten version of her earlier work First Impressions which had been refused for publication in 1797.1 Jane Austen worked on this novel during her most productive time‚ the first two decades of the nineteenth century. The setting of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ falls also to the time she lived and therefore delivers a detailed depiction of the existing society. The novel
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emphasises importance of marriage through contrasting values and characterisation. (Emotionalist/rationalist) Importance or literature * Through the guise of “Aunt Fay” Weldon stresses the importance of quality literature as written by Jane Austen. Quality literature‚ a thing forgotten by the modern day child consequently leaves a child of the modern day recoiling at the thought of reading Weldon. * “You must read Alice‚ before it’s too late” pg10 * Every child can sympathise with
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Throughout this essay ‚ I will be looking at the theme of social class in Jane Austen’s work ; critically analysed by Juliet McMaster‚ a chapter taken from ‘The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen’‚ edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. Jane Austen’s novels at first glance tell a story of romance‚ set within the landowning society amidst country estates‚ and their cultivation of tea parties‚ social outings‚ and extravagant balls; ladies frolicking in flowing gowns through decorated rooms
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MAHA DOSTMOHAMED Maha Dostmohamed Ms. Jalaluddin ENG3U1 September 16th‚ 2011 Behind the Success of Jane Austen “In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great‚ some achieve greatness‚ and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” (William Shakespeare). In this quote‚ William Shakespeare is talking about the different ways that one becomes great. To be born great‚ for example‚ is comparable to someone born into a royal family‚ one who did not have to
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extremely limited in themselves. Her subject matter is limited to the manners of a small section of country-gentry who apparently never have been worried about death or sex‚ hunger or war‚ guilt or God. Jane Austen herself referred to her work as “Two inches of ivory.” In a letter to her niece‚ Jane Austen wrote‚ “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.” Those three or four families are the mind we knew intimately – the landed gentry‚ the upper classes‚ the lower classes
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On Characterization in Emma by Jane Austen Introduction Jane Austen‚ one of the distinguished English novelists of the 19th century‚ is indeed so fine an artist and credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Born on December 16‚ 1775‚ the seventh of eight children-six boys and two girls‚ she had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a rector of Steventon in the county of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived
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Many authors comment on the society of their respective times through their writing. Geoffrey Chaucer and Jane Austen both use stereotypes of their times to reflect the society of that era. Chaucer lived during a time when the clergy was corrupt and stole from the hardworking‚ honest‚ peasant farmers (known as the Late Middle Ages*). In contrast‚ during the Hanoverian period during which Austen lived‚ society was based on the material possessions of an individual (or their future inheritance)‚ family
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means not only ’feelings’ but ’property’ as well. In many cases‚ marriage is even used as a tool to gain or secure personal and family interests‚ and sometimes Austen has completely taken romance out of the affair with her
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