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    the own family can be important for the choice of husband and wife. It is not appropriate for the daughter to choose whoever she likes for her husband‚ which she- if she wants a happy marriage- is not very likely to do. Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice presents five married couples. No two are alike. In the novel we see different reasons for marriage between the different matches made in the novel. Austen reveals many messages through her characters on her major theme‚ being marriage. Elizabeth

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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 Summary How it all starts‚ The movie Pride and Prejudice was first written in the early 19th century‚ in England‚ by Jane Austen. A woman who lacks fortune is in need of a wealthy man. So‚ basically any guy from a family with a good income would be the marriage hunt. Someone who is Rich but unintelligent‚ unattractive‚ boring men? Mrs. Bennet says‚ "Bring it on!” She has five daughters with no fortune. Only one day when a young wealthy man named Mr. Bingley moves into the

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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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    Meaghan 4.25.2013 Period-3 Summary * In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is about the Bennett family meeting the Bingleys who have just moved into a home for the time being. As Mrs.Bennett hears of the news she tells the girls to get ready for the ball to meet the Bingleys. Well at the ball Jane‚ the eldest sister and Mrs.Bennett meet Mr.Bingley who already seems interested in Jane. As they are talking Mrs.Bennett asks about Bingley’s friend Mr.Darcy who is watching everyone dance and

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    Jane Austin’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. These two texts are different in many ways. However‚ they convey certain aspects of society. They both show us Society’s view on love and marriage. But also it shows us how wealth gives certain people status. The two pieces are set in different areas and eras. ‘Much ado about nothing’ is set in Italy. The play was written in 1598‚ 200 years before ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was written. Pride and Prejudice is set in England

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    originally thinks Elizabeth is too ugly for him but grows to like her. CHAPTERS VII-XII/ 7 -12 What influences Elizabeth’s opinion of the Bingleys? When Jane becomes sick‚ she stars at Netherfield with her‚ and is influenced by how Mr Bingley shows great attention to Jane‚ subsequently disapproving of his mean sisters. What does Darcy consider an accomplished woman? What does this reveal about him? An accomplished woman would be a woman who can sing‚ draw‚ dance‚ speak languages‚ has proper manners

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    This paper intends to analyze and interpret the ironic features of the book Pride and Prejudice by using the relevance theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1986/1995) in order to prove that understanding verbal irony can lead to a better comprehension of the literature context. The author‚ Jane Austen‚ was an outstanding British woman novelist in 19th century. Her novels are highly prized not only for the humor or the depiction of the 18th and 19th century English country life‚ but also for the

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    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‚ PridePrejudice and Social Class which are projected through the characters‚ gentry-class setting and Austen’s authorial comment

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