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    Ayres Honors World Literature 0 2 May 2014 Pride and Prejudice: First Impressions Pride and Prejudice‚ a love story that has many obstacles in the way‚ first impressions being one of those obstacles. According to psychology‚ a first impression is the mental image that one creates of the person they encountered for the first time. Throughout the novel‚ first impressions‚ good or bad‚ are being introduced with all kinds of characters‚ but the characters who impacts the plot and relations the most

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    Our honorable instructor‚ Professor Tang assigned us to read three novels in our National Day Vacation: Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ and A Woman On a Roof by Doris Lessing. Of these three‚ I favored Pride and Prejudice most‚ as apparently‚ neither the simple story of the sun-bathing woman in A Woman On a Roof was easier enough for me to understand its “representative of modern women figures”‚ nor the ugly face of the man who persuaded his girlfriend

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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen I have read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775‚ and died on the 18th of July in 1817 at an age of 41 years. She was brought up in wealthy family in the lower fringe of the landed gentry. She wrote romantic fiction and her works include novels such as Sense and Sensibility‚ Persuasion and Mansfield Park. She didn’t reach much public success during her lifetime‚ but has since then been critically approved

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    Distortion Within Pride and Prejudice In Classical Literature‚ there are few works which can boast having a huge societal impact upon their publication‚ yet still cause a modern reader to sit at the edge of their seat turning the page in anticipation of what happens next. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of these evident pieces. In Pride and Prejudice‚ the life as a middle-class English woman in the 19th Century was portrayed so astutely that the world around her was forever

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    "universal truth" is nothing more than a social truth. When claiming that a single man "must be in want of a wife"‚ Jane Austen reveals that the reverse in also true; a single woman is in‚ perhaps desperate‚ want of a husband. In nineteenth century Britain‚ what people did and their behaviour was very much governed by the social class they were born into. Class distinction in Jane Austen’s time was in fact very rigid. The land-owning aristocracy belonged to the highest rank of the social ladder

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    Assignment 1 Character Sketch in Pride & Prejudice Elizbeth Bennet The character of Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the most important female characters in the Victorian age. In this essay I am going to discuss and analyze Elizabeth’s personality in order to show how wonderfully Jane Austen created that special character in a way that the nature of changing human attitudes and emotions are all brilliantly illustrated. Initially‚ Elizabeth Bennet is a twenty

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    consequences. In the book Pride and Prejudice‚ by Jane Austen many first impressions are made and are often proved wrong. Austen illustrates that first impressions can be misleading using her character Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a positive character‚ something Austen uses to influence the reader and lead them to believe her initial impressions are accurate. Austen proves that judgements made quickly aren’t always reliable through Elizabeth’s encounters with the characters of Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham

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    Does Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice follow the conventions of a romantic novel? A conventionally romantic novel usually focuses on the relationship between a physically attractive man and woman. The hero and heroine usually meet early in the story and fall in love at first sight. The two lovers may‚ more often than not‚ have to overcome obstacles in order to be together‚ but in the end‚ it seems that love conquers all. Pride and Prejudice does fall into this ’romance’ category; it’s often considered

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    someone that I have to live the rest of my life with. In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ life is the total opposite of what it is today. Instead of you getting to choose who you want to be with‚ that person is chosen for you. Sounds like an awful time. The mother would have to pick the spouse and all she cared about was finding the wealthiest man. Two of the main characters that I want to talk about is Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. From what I have read of the book so far‚ all these two

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    hegemony. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written much earlier‚ however even then class expectations restricted the English society. The novel is a critique of society through social satire by the means of social caricatures embodied in Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine de Burgh. The plot of the text largely centers on the idea of class. Not only does the novel concern itself with the class of various characters‚ but also describes their mode of production and by what means each character gained

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