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    Austen‚ Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Bantam Books‚ New York‚ 1813-1981. Pride and prejudice is romantic novel and was written during a time of war in Britain where Austen grew up. This book is very interesting and it might rise a lot of question in it’s readers mind. This book is also the book I‘m doing my research on and though it has little comparison to history but it reflects a lot of values. The book talks mostly about marriage and reflects social issues. This novel shows us that love can overwhelm

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    his wife that his cousin that he has never seen will visit Mr. William Collins‚ who will inherit Mr. Bennet’s property. Mr. Collins is a clergyman whom the wealthy noblewoman Lady Catherine de Bourgh has recently selected to serve her parish. His letter as Mr. Bennet said contains “a mixture of servility and self-importance‚” and his personality is similar. He arrives at Longbourn and apologizes for being entitled to the Bennets’ property but spends much of his time admiring and complimenting the

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    Bishkek Humanities University named after K. Karasaev The Faculty of European Civilizations The English Language Department “Peculiarities of the Lexical Stylistic devices (Metaphor‚ metonymy‚ irony‚ simile‚ epithet) in the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen” DIPLOMA PAPER Scientific Supervisor: E. B. Jumakeeva Done by: Satarova Rahat‚ group: A08-2 Contents: Pages: Introduction

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    Analytical Essay: Pride & Prejudice The progress between Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s relationship‚ in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) illustrates and explores several the key themes in the novel. Their relationship highlights class expectations‚ pride and prejudice‚ and marriage‚ and how they play a major role in determining the course of their association. These are outlined through their first prejudiced dislike of each other when they first meet‚ the stronger feelings for Elizabeth

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    Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth. One of the main themes that Austen is trying to convey through this passage is to avoid judging people and their actions superficially by the revealing of truth and motives through the setting of the letter where Darcy seek to explain himself and seek Elizabeth’s understanding. We can see Darcy’s attempt when he wrote “I shall hope to be secured in future‚ when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read.” (150-151‚ Pride and Prejudice) His justification

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    DOMESTIC CHRONOTOPE IN “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE” The Russian philologist and literary philosopher Mikhail Mikhailvoch Bakhtin (1895-1975) uses the term “Chronotope” to designate the Spatio-Temporal matrix‚ which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as “Time-Space”. The term is developed in Bakhtin’s essay‚ “Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel”. Bakhtin in his essay says that “a literary work’s artistic unity

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    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

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    Letter Five - interconnectedness between the writer and the reader Social class: Weldon’s comment on social class in Canberra; “in pretty idiosyncratic suburbs where house prices define the status of the occupants and when you change houses you change your friends”‚ parallels to that in Austen’s time and novels. Power and purpose of the writer Since Austen‚ Weldon comments in a didactic tone; “any seminar on Women and Writing or Women Writers of the New Female Culture or whatever is instantly

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    strong feelings in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Shakespeare and Jane Austen both present strong feeling of love‚ revenge‚ hatred and friendship. They are two different types of stories‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a novel and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a play so therefore they both have different ways of presenting strong feelings but they do have some similarities. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’ strong feelings are presented by: 1. The Narrator 2. Letters 3. Dialogue Whereas

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    which accounts for the 21 letters present in Pride and Prejudice. The narrator in Pride and Prejudice is omniscient‚ anonymous‚ and reliable. Several of the characters in Pride and Prejudice read and write. Mr. Bennet—reads on page 85‚ Austen does not present letters to reader. His family knows him as "a most negligent and dilatory correspondent."—page 223. They hoped that he would write from London while he was off searching for Lydia and Wickham‚ but the only letters that arrived came from

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