immediately tries to get one of her daughters to marry him. Mr. Bingley really likes the oldest and prettiest one of the five daughters‚ Jane‚ whom he eventually marries. Meanwhile‚ Bingley’s proud friend Darcy meets Elizabeth‚ who at first despises Mr. Darcy‚ and avoids him as much as possible. Though Darcy is rather cold and reserved at first‚ his fondness for Elizabeth grows and becomes more obvious. Convention‚ however‚ restricts his affection for her‚ as he is rich and high on the social ladder‚ and
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that our family is more important. 2. List three major characters and delineate each. a)Elizabeth Bennet - The econd of the Bennet daughters at twenty years old‚ she is intelligent‚ lively‚ attractive‚ and witty. b)Mr. Darcy - Twenty-eight years old and unmarried‚ Darcy is the wealthy owner of the famous family estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire. Handsome‚ tall‚ and intelligent. c)Jane Bennet - Twenty-two years old when the novel begins‚ she is considered the most beautiful young lady in the
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The place of unmarried women in British society was determined by their social status and the size of their dowries. Married women had more freedom and influence than unmarried women‚ and their positions were defined by the rank and wealth of their husbands. Unmarried women could be respected and influential‚ only if they were of high birth and had a great deal of money. Women of the low gentry‚ who were unlucky enough to have small dowries (or no dowries at all)‚ were relegated to borderline poverty
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lovers; after an initial acrimonious encounter‚ they develop a deep intolerance of each other‚ and as a result‚ fail to recognize their inherent compatibility. Elizabeth Bennet‚ a spirited and sensible woman‚ is considered inferior by the proud Fitzwilliam Darcy because of her lower social class. Inevitably‚ this leads to Mr. Darcy’s prejudice towards Elizabeth‚ which in turn‚ causes her to take great personal offense due to her own immense pride. Consequently‚ the novel provides an intriguing‚ yet critical
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Jane Austen “On Women” In her role as a 19th century female author‚ Jane Austen has a privilege that many other women of her time do not have. She skillfully engages her audience and draws them toward her views of life through the characters she employs in her novels. Austen masterfully utilizes satire in her writings. As she portrays characters and circumstances‚ irony is her chief literary technique. The plots and themes of her novels are intensified as readers view the situations from the view
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Part One The Background of Two Characters Pride and prejudice and A Dream of Red Mansions almost exist in the same time‚ although their authors belong to different countries. With the development of the history‚ the two works attract more and more people. 1.1 The Basic Relationship of Pride and Prejudice Pride and prejudice’s author would like to choose the daily life as the material‚ which is in stark contrast as for the popular sentimental novels and the affectation of writing methods. It vividly
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was once a tradition which had developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that awarded a central role in human aspirations and conduct to man’s need for approbation‚ self-esteem‚ and the desire of distinction and superiority” (662). Fitzwilliam Darcy faces these traditions‚ and the weight on a wealthy-man’s shoulders to uphold society’s norms. “Greed” and “pride” were once defined as social ways for a man to tame his
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The second half of this opening sentence of the novel reveals that the "universal truth" is nothing more than a social truth. When claiming that a single man "must be in want of a wife"‚ Jane Austen reveals that the reverse in also true; a single woman is in‚ perhaps desperate‚ want of a husband. In nineteenth century Britain‚ what people did and their behaviour was very much governed
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Dandies & Metrossexuals‚ David Beckham & Bridget Jones: A Cultural History of Gender in the UK Wintersemester 2008/2009 Andrew Mills Seminar Paper: Bridget Jones Diary and Pride and Prejudice Anna Rjabof Martrikelnummer: 112605 LA English/Philosophy 8th semester AnnafromBanana@gmx.de 1 Table of Contents I Introduction____________________________________________________________________ II Women in the 19th century – un-/written laws and rights________________________________
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Before Darcy’s proposal to Elizabeth she discovers through Colonel Fitzwilliam that Mr.Darcy sabotaged Mr.Bingley and Elizabeth’s relationship. This results in a disappointing ending for Mr.Darcy. Elizabeth views Mr.Darcy as the cause of her sister’s unhappiness‚ so when he proposes Elizabeth is furious and out of anger says
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