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    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 in both ‘Pride and

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    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 and forges

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    Jane Austen’s regency novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a novel that is already appreciated by society but in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the novel‚ context must be explored. Letters to Alice: on First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon evokes a deep appreciation of Austen’s social conventions and incorporates her own context so the reader can appreciate and understand the progression of social values. By reading Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice‚ an enriched holistic appreciation

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    Pride and Prejudice Both Texts Letters to Alice Connections/Comments about texts Context (prompts‚ purpose‚ shapes‚ values) Personal context and social‚ political and historical context Austen is covert and implicit because she is female “if you turned out to be barren‚ that was a terrible disaster‚ not just personally but socially” “breaking through the thin walls between idea and experience” – reality poking into your life and preventing artists notions A teacher Cold war reference

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    ! Essay  2   Question  4   “Fay  Weldon’s  The  Lives  and  Loves  of  a  She  Devil  is  a  feminist  revenge   fantasy  run  riot  but  it  scarcely  opens  up  any  credible  and  liberating  spaces   for  the  re-­invention  of  female  identity.”  Discuss.   ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Fay  Weldon’s  The  Life  and  Loves  of  a  She-­Devil  [SD]  is  not  a  feminist  manifesto‚

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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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    the distinctive contexts of Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen? A comparative study of Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ and Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon accentuates their distinctive contexts through Weldon’s didactic assertions spoken through the fictional character Aunty Fay‚ encouraging a heightened understanding of the contemporary values and issues of Austen’s cultural context. In doing so‚ it inspires a reader to develop a more holistic appreciation for

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    and “Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen” by Fay Weldon stress the notion of how contexts can determine an individual’s understanding. Austen and Weldon criticise the class structure and privileges those who challenge authority‚ thus allowing readers to make their own conclusions on the concept of hierarchy based on their knowledge of their own context. Austen criticises women who marry to gain economic and social standing but Weldon emphasises the fact that in Austen’s context women were

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    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 explore women’s position and the expectations of women in society

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    Jane Austen’s 1813 novel‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Fay Weldon’s 1984 epistolary text‚ ‘Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen’ (Letters to Alice) are written regarding their individual contexts. A parallel study of these two didactic texts‚ composed in different centuries‚ develops a deeper understanding of the opposing values in relation to their own society. When read as a pair the obvious connection of societies failure to accommodate women’s happiness as a worthwhile moral project highlights

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