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    8 Dec. 2012 Personal Response Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ is a great representation of how life in the 1800s would have been. Placement in society played a major role and most of her characters only did what society permitted them to do. The people who you were surrounded around either broke you or made you an influence on the town. The women seemed to look only for someone to marry them‚ not for someone to love them. The women in this novel‚ searched for men with wealth and power

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    Progressive Work in a Conservative Time Pride and Prejudice‚ a Jane Austen novel‚ is one of the most classical pieces of literature in history. It has been evaluated and critiqued a countless number of times‚ and has been adapted into several films. It can be argued that there is a lot to be retained by readers from this literary work‚ an important message that can be passed down from generation to generation. During Jane Austen’s time‚ in the early 1800’s‚ women were around to be married off‚ bear children

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    that themes of "independence‚ dependence‚ and choice" are recurring throughout all of Austen ’s works. Recent film adaptations to Austen have decided to downplay these themes‚ however‚ in exchange for playing up the romance. These films reveal the 20th century emphasis on romance at the cost of excluding the already established importance of self-knowledge. Pride and Prejudice‚ Austen ’s first written but later published novel‚ is a commentary on the importance in society of inheritance and

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    Bingleys and Darcy. In this essay‚ I will explore the themes‚ the narrative techniques used and the tone of the involved characters. Austen’s dramatic form of writing is an attractive feature of Pride and Prejudice.The novel is ‘dialogic’ in nature; the dialogue between Jane and Elizabeth is a representation of their personalities and characters and Austen has purposefully juxtaposed Elizabeth opposite Jane to show the stark contrasts in their personalities‚ as well as their views and beliefs.

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    Bride and Prejudice‚ Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood film adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ has many similarities and differences to the original novel. Chadha stays true to Austen’s original plot ¬¬¬¬of romance‚ marriage and gender. However‚ she adds modern and cultural aspects to make the film more relatable and accessible to today’s viewers. For example‚ characters use cell phones‚ e-mail‚ and contemporary language with slang. Austen remains with proper language. Additionally‚ Bride

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    One feature to realize about The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride and Prejudice is that they are both similar in a comedic manner for readers to feel entertained. However‚ what separates the two stories are their themes; whereas The Importance of Being Earnest was written based on how society was around the Victorian Era in satirical form‚ while on the other hand Pride and Prejudice is concerned more with the idea of how love can overcome all obstacles despite the fact that two different people

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    Explore Barker’s presentation of women in "Regeneration". Regeneration is a novel largely based upon the male experience of war ‚ however Barker’s use of predominantly confident and modern women represents the seismic effects the war had on the female population‚ while also exploring how the war was an emasculating experience for men. As the jingoistic illusions of what war was like were weakened by the harsh realities of war for the men who signed up to fight‚ they began taking on more maternal

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    The ideas conveyed by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon in Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen conflict with and challenge the values of their contemporary society and serve to offer moral perspectives opposing to those of their respective societies. Connections can be made between the role of the writer and their purpose in both texts and‚ particularly through consideration of Weldon’s contextualisation and form‚ the reader’s perspective of both texts is reshaped and enhanced

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    Analysis of Feminism in Pride and Prejudice Name: 胡晓君 Maggie Student Number: 12011043 Analysis of Feminism in Pride and Prejudice Abstract:Pride and Prejudice is a marvellous novel of Jane Austen. Although in her age‚ women are regarded as emotional‚ weak‚ nurturing‚ and submissive‚ Austen depicts her heroine‚ Elizabeth as a woman who has her own perspectives‚ feelings‚ and opinions. This paper analyses feminism in Pride and Prejudice from its progressive

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    was strictly a man’s world. According to Debra Teachman in her article Women’s Education and Moral Conduct‚ Teachman states that “Women… had no schools of recognized academic excellence available to them and were ineligible for university attendance because of their sex” (Teachman 109). For Elizabeth Bennet‚ the main character in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice‚ she prided herself on her intelligence versus that of her sisters and most men in the society. In Teachman’s article‚ she draws many

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