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    Emma by Jane Austen

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    About the Author Jane Austen was born on December 16‚ 1775 at Steventon‚ England. She was the seventh child of the rector of the parish at Steventon‚ and lived with her family until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. Her father‚ Reverend George Austen‚ was from Kent and attended the Tunbridge School before studying at Oxford and receiving a living as a rector at Steventon. Her mother‚ Cassandra Leigh Austen‚ was the daughter of a patrician family. Among her siblings she had

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    Introduction : Jane Austen’s Emma‚ published in 1815‚ presents an in-depth look on how society in England dealt with the differences between classes‚ precisely on how the members of the upper class interacted both with each others and with those lower than them. Emma is a departure for Jane Austen to take a side as a moralist and observe the common behavior of people in particular the cynism of social classes. The author herself spent her first 26 years in a small village like Highbury

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    Societal Affects of Love Emma‚ by Jane Austen‚ is a classic comedy that took place in the nineteenth-century near London‚ England. Emma tells the tale of a heroine attempting to be the matchmaker for everyone‚ and ultimately herself. Emma Woodhouse‚ the main character‚ loses her dear friend and governess‚ Miss Taylor‚ to Miss Taylor’s marriage‚ in which she becomes Mrs. Weston. Emma‚ in search of another cherished companion‚ comes across Harriet Smith. Although Harriet comes from a lower class

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    Jane Austen Persuasion

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    Matthew Elmasri Sam Arkin Humanities Core 1A Monday December 7‚ 2009 Obliging Compliance and Private Rapture Jane Austen weaves the theme of travel throughout her novel‚ Persuasion‚ to solidify the value she places on sincerity of character in relation to social decorum. However‚ travel in this context is more broadly defined as any change or movement from one place to another. Changes of setting‚ social standing‚ or time‚ for instance‚ are all examples of travel that result in the reinforcement

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    Interview ; Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen Interview Interviewer: We have here with us today the one and only Jane Austen‚ author of Pride and Prejudice which has‚ to date‚ sold over 20 million copies. Welcome‚ Jane. Austen:Thank you‚ its great to be here. Interviewer:For those who haven’t read Pride and Prejudice‚ could you give us an overview of the story? Austen:Well‚ Pride and Prejudice is a novel centring a female protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ forging her way through an established and rigid social hierarchy in the

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    Jane Austen Quotes

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    Like Character‚ Like Estate In the novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen gives more meaning to the estates belonging to each character instead of allowing the reader to only see them as Background information. Austen is able to paint the personalities and values of each character in the minds of the reader by describing the outer appearance as well as the interior of the houses‚ this is applied particularly well to both Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Lady Catherine of Rosings. Both appear proud and

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    Jane Austen Obstacles

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    Jane Austen experienced a less strict version of the British class system: she was low enough on the class “ladder” to interact with poorer classes but high enough to associate with the aristocracy. In her novels though‚ the protagonists all seem to have at least some difficulties in associating with others‚ such as not being able to speak as freely‚ due to the wealth disparity. Acknowledging the differences between Jane Austen’s life and the life of her protagonists

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    Persuasion Jane Austen

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    Persuasion‚ written by Jane Austen‚ is the story of a restored relationship between the characters Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth‚ and the influence of the other characters that surround their lives. As the name implies‚ persuasion is the main idea of the novel. Lady Elliot plays a key role in convincing Anne to follow her advice on who to marry. This action leads to the main conflict between Anne and Lady Russell‚ as well as a conflict with Wentworth. Anne is the middle child of Sir

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    Jane Austen as a moralist or a realist It is a mistake to see Austen as either a moralist or a realist? No‚ I think these are wholly appropriate and instructive ways of reading her work‚ as long as we keep in mind the fact that they do not exhaust the possibilities of meaning generated by a text like Pride and Prejudice. We need to remember Bakhtin ’s view of the novel form‚ deriving from its origins in popular‚ comic‚ anti-establishment traditions‚ as essentially self-questioning and protean. In

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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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