Letters To Alice Identity Essay
In what ways is your appreciation of both texts enhanced by a comparative study of identity in Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen? In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts.
Fay Weldon’s epistolary non-fiction Letters to Alice (1984) enables the further understanding of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) achieved through the intertextual connections explored, in which offer a postmodern interpretation and discussion of Pride and its Regency context. The reader, consequently is given opportunity to adopt Weldon's perception of the novels issues and themes, ultimately reshaping the audience's experience in reading Pride. Austen challenges the contexts values through the …show more content…
Pride’s regency era was exceedingly religious and thus of high moral judgment. It’s highly restrictive and conservative society implemented the necessity of explicit social conventions, repression of high feeling and moderation of action, all of a patriarchal nature in which women were seen as less morally strong as men, therefore in need of tighter control and judgement. “Lizzy shall be brought to reason... she is a very headstrong, foolish girl and does not know her own interest; but I will make her know it.” Mrs bennet uses high modality to reflect how heavily women were constrained by pressure to adhere to marriage and its associated expectations in the regency Era, unable to exercise their own agency and moral righteousness as a result. “”I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness... because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity. “ Characterisation of Mr Collins is used by Austen to convey the idea that mercenary is a realistic motivation for marriage, however not an ideal one. During this context, marriage determined a women's financial security and opportunities for social advancement due to narrow earning capacity for gentry and nobility. Through the recontextualization of Pride
Fay Weldon’s epistolary non-fiction Letters to Alice (1984) enables the further understanding of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) achieved through the intertextual connections explored, in which offer a postmodern interpretation and discussion of Pride and its Regency context. The reader, consequently is given opportunity to adopt Weldon's perception of the novels issues and themes, ultimately reshaping the audience's experience in reading Pride. Austen challenges the contexts values through the …show more content…
Pride’s regency era was exceedingly religious and thus of high moral judgment. It’s highly restrictive and conservative society implemented the necessity of explicit social conventions, repression of high feeling and moderation of action, all of a patriarchal nature in which women were seen as less morally strong as men, therefore in need of tighter control and judgement. “Lizzy shall be brought to reason... she is a very headstrong, foolish girl and does not know her own interest; but I will make her know it.” Mrs bennet uses high modality to reflect how heavily women were constrained by pressure to adhere to marriage and its associated expectations in the regency Era, unable to exercise their own agency and moral righteousness as a result. “”I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness... because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity. “ Characterisation of Mr Collins is used by Austen to convey the idea that mercenary is a realistic motivation for marriage, however not an ideal one. During this context, marriage determined a women's financial security and opportunities for social advancement due to narrow earning capacity for gentry and nobility. Through the recontextualization of Pride