Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen Letters to Alice- Fay Weldon An examination of Jane Austen’s 1813 social satire Pride and Prejudice‚ and the reading of Fay Weldon’s 1984 epistolary text Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen‚ allows understanding of Austen’s novel to be moulded and then shifted. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners‚ focusing on marriage‚ Pride‚ Prejudice and Social Class which are projected through the characters‚ gentry-class setting and Austen’s authorial comment
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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. Furthermore‚ Weldon perceives
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Weldon’s Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (Letters to Alice) is an epistolary novel containing a series of letters from Aunt Fay to her niece Alice who is currently studying English Literature at college. Alice has been told to read Jane Austen but thinks that Austen is “boring‚ petty and irrelevant” (Letters to Alice‚ Page 7). Aunt Fay attempts to convince Alice to read Jane Austen by talking about the life and work of Jane Austen‚ and tries to explain Literature to Alice. She encourages
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authorial intrusion and didacticism she manipulates through Aunt Fay demonstrates her belief in female equality and independence. Although Weldon shares this value with Austen‚ Weldon believes that marriage is not only way to power. She draws a parallel with unsatisfactory marriages that Austen revealed and modern day marriages of ‘bought Asian brides‚’ that marriage ‘in order to survive’ is considered no better than slavery. Weldon downgrades the role Austen places on wealth in relationships‚ with
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portrayed in Pride and Prejudice are creatively reshaped in Letters to Alice. The two texts‚ Letters to Alice and Pride and Prejudice‚ mirror and contrast the central values shared and explored by evaluating them; presenting them against Jane Austen’s context and that of Fay Weldon. Mirroring Austen’s novel‚ Weldon presents the central values for women such as the social values of moral behaviour‚ independence‚ and‚ literary values of reading and writing‚ from Pride and Prejudice and adapts them
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of Women in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Letters to Alice’ Fay Weldon’s ‘Letters to Alice on First reading Jane Austen’‚ through the didactic literary form of an epistolic novel‚ serves to encourage a heightened understanding of the role of women in Jane Austen’s social‚ cultural and historical context‚ and also aims to present the parallels of women in both texts. In doing so‚ it inspires the modern responder to adopt a more sincere appreciation for the perspectives of Austen and Weldon of women inherent
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study. To what extent is this made evident in the texts you have studied? (Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice) Through exploring the connections between Jane Austen’s canonical Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen readers gain a better understanding of the ways the values explored in the former are reshaped to contextually fit the latter. Although Austen and Weldon voice their perceptions and criticisms of society in different ways‚ they both
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Despite the vast change in context‚ purpose and audience‚ both Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice (1984) address universal and timeless issues within society in order to challenge perspectives and understandings of them. Each explore the values and attitudes ascribed to marriage and women‚ and through an intertextual reading of both Austen and Weldon‚ a contextualisation of both constructs grows. The exploration of the construction of values regarding marriage
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“Pride and Prejudice” and “Letters to Alice” contains many similarities yet some obvious differences even when considering the fact that they were written hundreds of years apart. Both texts provide strong perspectives on a variety of issues and are very blunt in their approach. The key issue throughout both novels is the ideology of marriage in the sense of whether one should marry for love or financial stability and standing. Both novels are written in an epistolary format providing a different
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In what ways does Fay Welden in Letters to Alice reposition readers in terms of their understanding and appreciation of Pride and Prejudice. Reading Fay Welden’s letters to Alice repositions the readers understanding and appreciation of Pride and Prejudice‚ as Welden explains the context and values of the society in which the book is based. As the book is based in Austens society the Landed Gentry‚ in a small provincial village in the nineteenth century‚ the society values different things to
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