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    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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    ENN203J: Jane Austen 28/02/2013 ASSIGNMENT 01: Emma STUDENT NUMBER: 51004623 The misunderstandings with regard to perception and deception in Jane Austen’s novel Emma undeniably suggest something sinister about human nature‚ given the negative effects it has on those that fall prey to such conjecture. However‚ the misunderstandings may also render the novel comedic to a certain extent because of the ironic amusement throughout‚ which involves complete misunderstandings from characters on

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    a contemporary context. The manipulation of medium‚ genre‚ setting‚ characters and plot enables the transformed text to be understood and connect with a new audience. Amy Heckerling’s post-modern film transformation Clueless (1995) is derived from Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma (1816) with both texts comparable as they use satire to address similar values. The shift in context enables the texts to reinforce the values of Regency England or 1990s Beverly Hills. Heckerling subverts and appropriates

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    Jane Austen is a well-known author that lived in the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Some of her more famous writings include Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. What most don’t know about Jane Austen is how much she has influenced modern society and culture. One way she has influenced it is her sense of humor and the fact that she talked about unpopular opinions of her time. Another is that there have constantly been television series and movies based off of her books

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    Scholarship concerning Jane Austen’s views and use of children within her novels has not received as much attention as other aspects of her writing in spite of the intense interest in all other aspects of her life and writing over the last two centuries. It was long assumed that‚ since she never married‚ she did not like children and that what she wrote about them shows children in a negative light. Scholarly investigations of her letters and family documentation concerning her life and times describing

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    In a novel overflowing with misconstrued romance‚ “Emma” by Jane Austen succeeds in misleading the readers‚ as well as the actual characters on the matter of who is really in love with whom. Although it is teeming with romantic dialogue‚ the characters have a tendency to misunderstand confessions of love‚ as well as comments made in passing concerning the secret feelings of others. Through forms of narration and dialogue‚ Jane Austen forces the reader to interpret these subtexts and draw conclusions

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    connotations of women that Austen chastises throughout the novel. Caroline Bingley is seen throughout the text to mislead the other characters‚ allowing them to see only her positive characteristics; hoping they will not uncover her true nature. Not only is she judgmental of the other characters‚ but her unrequited affections towards Fitzwilliam Darcy causes her to act in ways she believes will impress her desired suitor. For example‚ when Elizabeth visited the Bingley residence when Jane was sick‚ the Bingley’s

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    When I first read your letter‚ anger filled inside of me. The words “I had detached Mr. Bingley from your sister” hit me the hardest (Austen 129). I thought‚ how dare you sabotage my sister’s relationship with your friend‚ Mr. Bingley. It was not your place to go ahead and jump to conclusions about Jane’s feelings. She could be head over heels for him and you still would not know about any of it. As I continued walking‚ my anger grew. Then‚ I crumbled the paper up and threw it on the ground while

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