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    Pride and Prejudice vs Bride and Prejudice - More than a change of One LetterThe film‚ Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright‚ had more of a natural tone setting and feeling to it. The scenery really draws the audience in by nature and the assumed innocence of the characters. Bride and Prejudice directed by Gurinder Chadha‚ is considered to be a Bollywood style movie. Bride… had a complete makeover of Pride… with an Indian traditional style twist. The main characters in both films were Lizzie

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    McCabe 1 Emma McCabe Mrs. Forbush AP English 4 July 27‚ 2013 PridePrejudice‚ and Paradox It has been said: “Elizabeth’s own personality presents her with the greatest obstacles to her happiness. Her personality also presents her with the potential for extraordinary happiness.” Discuss this paradox. Elizabeth Bennet is a perfect example of such a woman that has a strong independent nature‚ and stands for the right for women to marry for love rather than for status or wealth. This

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    Pride and Prejudice Questions 1. Identify the speaker: “The more I see of the world‚ the more I am dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconstancy of all human characters‚ and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.” What does this person mean? The speaker of this quote is Elizabeth. When she says this quote she means that the way people act toward each other has cause her to be somewhat upset. She feels that the

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    Pride and Prejudice: Irony "It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife".(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty headed Mrs. Bennet‚ and her desire to find a good match for each of her five daughters from the middle-class young men of the family’s acquaintance: "The business

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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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    Georgiana’s Importance in Pride and Prejudice Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ Elizabeth‚ the main protagonist’s‚ character changes from being averse to having Mr. Darcy‚ the other protagonist’s‚ favor‚ to wanting to please him. Elizabeth’s character changes due to Darcy’s change in civility throughout the novel. Georgiana‚ Darcy’s sister‚ is the catalyst for Elizabeth’s change in character‚ as seen by Austen’s use of the word "pleasure." Because Georgiana greatly admires

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    Mr. Bennet: he lives in Longbourn‚ a village‚ with his five daughters. His favourite is Elizabeth. He considers his other daughters as silly and empty-headed and Lizzy‚ as he called Elizabeth‚ the cleverest. He has an odd character Mrs. Bennet: in her youth she was a beautiful woman but now that she has grow-up daughters she stops thinking in her own beauty and thinks of her daughter’s future. She has been married for almost twenty-three years but she never could understand her husband odd’s character

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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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    CHAPTERS I-II/ 1 –2 What is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? How does Austen convey the tone Mr. Bennet uses with his wife? Mr. Bennet is often annoyed with Mrs. Bennet. Mr and Mrs Bennet’s relationship is formal and she only wants him to do what she wants. Why is Mrs. Bennet so interested in the young man’s arrival? Her soul purpose in life is to wed her daughters off. The young man seems very suitable. CHAPTERS III-VI/ 3 -6 Despite Bingley’s appearance as a most eligible bachelor

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    individual character listed above; how they feel towards each other and how their opinions of each other has or has not changed since their last meeting. In this essay‚ we aim to explore the different themes in this chapter and each individual character analysis. In this chapter‚ we consider Darcy’s proposal to be the turning point of “Pride & Prejudice”. Before Darcy’s proposal‚ Elizabeth main preoccupation with Darcy centres around dislike‚ but after it‚ we are able to detect a budding love towards him

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