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    Street‚ Kensington‚ 5065 September 10‚ 2013 Chawton Cottage Alton Hampshire GU34-1SD Dear Ms Austen I have recently studied two interpretations of your work Pride and Prejudice‚ Mr Darcy was my particular favourite because of his interesting combination in personality traits; arrogant however pleasantly thoughtful. Tall and handsome‚ Mr Darcy had pride in high places and was blind to call his future lover‚ Elizabeth barely tolerable and handsome enough. I was most certainly enchanted by Mr Darcy as he

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    discussing the most influential literature pieces of time. Today’s discussion will lead us back to the early 19th century‚ a time where women weren ’t treated as they are today. One of the most influential novels of that time was none other than Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen. Also‚ I am going to discuss one of her other novels Emma. During the 19th Century women were treated similar to slaves‚ being controlled by men their entire lives. They were controlled originally by their father‚ then

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    Jane Austen is often regarded as the greatest of English women novelists on the strength of her six completed novels. Noted particularly for their sparkling social comedy & accurate vision of human relationships‚ they are still as widely read today all over the world as they have ever been. It goes without saying that “Pride & Prejudice” is the most famous & ever-popular one. To begin with‚ I’d like to stress the point‚ that this particular novel is mainly about people’s relationships

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    Pride” and “Prejudice” Throughout her writing‚ Jane Austen portrays the social pressures and limitations that women were faced with in the early 1800’s. Austen can fit in with some of the struggles and characteristics of the characters in Pride and Prejudice. She sees herself in Elizabeth and that is the reason that Elizabeth is Austen’s favorite character. There are many different traits that are displayed in the novel. The traits “pride” and “prejudice” are the most portrayed throughout the

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    Pride and Prejudice Memory: The first main event is the ball at Meryton‚ where Jane Bennet meets Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth Bennet sees Mr. Darcy. Jane Bennet dances with Mr. Bingley twice and Elizabeth’s first impression of Mr. Darcy is that he is very proud. Almost a month later‚ Mr. Collins‚ who is a cousin to Mr. Bennet‚ visits the Bennet’s household and proposes to Elizabeth. Elizabeth declines his offer‚ though. Jane soon receives a letter from Miss. Bingley stating that their family

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    The name of the book: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Plot summary: Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the late 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets had 5 daughters: the beautiful Jane‚ the clever Elizabeth‚ the bookish Mary‚ the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately for the Bennets‚ if Mr. Bennet dies their

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    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jane Austen was born December 16‚ 1775‚ to Rev. George Austen and the former Cassandra Leigh in Steventon‚ Hampshire‚ the seventh of eight children. Like the central characters in most of her novels‚ the Austens were a large family of respectable lineage but no fortune; her father supplemented his "living" — his clergyman’s income — by farming. This lively and cheerful family frequently passed their evenings in novel-reading‚ charades and amateur theatrics

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    Pride and Prejudice: Mrs. Bennet really wants her five daughters to get married as soon as possible. When a rich man named Charles Bingley moves to their neighborhood‚ she is thrilled! When the Bennet daughters meet him at a ball‚ they are impressed by his outgoing personality and friendly disposition. They are pretty much disgusted by Bingley ’s friend‚ Fitzwilliam Darcy. Mr. Bingley and the oldest daughter‚ Jane‚ soon form a subtle relationship towards each other. Any serious relationship between

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    of the title‚ in the literary terms is that this is alliteration. Pride and Prejudice is an example of Jane Austen’s use of alliteration. In addition‚ the “prejudice” of the title is on Darcy’s part‚ believing that Elizabeth’s family is not good for him. The “pride” is on Elizabeth’s part refusing to agree to marry to Darcy because he ruined her sisters’ chance of happiness. There are a number of conflicts in pride and prejudice. One of the long drawn out ones is between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Their

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    Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen‚ first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners‚ upbringing‚ morality‚ education‚ and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire‚ near London. Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century‚ it retains

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