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    reason or emotion be the guide of their love life and if a balance between the two could be maintained. In Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen creates her protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ to be a strikingly unconventional female with respect to her time. Mr. Darcy is described to be the archetype of an aloof romantic hero‚ an aristocrat‚ a comparable Prince Charming. Austen ’s influential novel "Pride and Prejudice"‚ written in 1813 portrays the underlying satirized themes of women and femininity‚ love

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    in which Jane Austen wrote of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen deliberately confines her description to the small tranquil world of the English landed gentry of her time‚ and takes love and marriage as her constant subject matter (Gast‚ 8-12). As a writer with sharp insight‚ she acts not as a romantic matchmaker‚ but as a realistic painter who presents a picture of her society and her class with light and her class with light and shade in right proportion. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is about

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    In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Bennet fulfills the role of a confidante for her younger sister and heroine of the novel‚ Elizabeth Bennet. She is the compassionate friend in a family full of drama and mishaps. Aside from being the shoulder in the family‚ Jane’s role serves to contrast that of Elizabeth; she is more of a conformist while Elizabeth plays the rebellious role in the family. She succeeds in displaying the part of a gentle‚ sweet girl to further prove Jane Austen’s satirical

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    http://www.biography.com/people/jane-austen-9192819#synopsis&awesm=~oErUoMS5bEp9C9 The seventh child and second daughter of Cassandra and George AustenJane Austen was born on December 16‚ 1775‚ in Steventon‚ Hampshire‚ England. Jane’s parents were well-respected community members. Her father served as the Oxford-educated rector for a nearby Anglican parish. The family was close and the children grew up in an environment that stressed learning and creative thinking. When Jane was young‚ she and her siblings

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    to live their own lives and earn for themselves. Jane Austen uses marriage almost as a way of entrapment for women during this period as they either marry or they live a life of poverty and disgrace their family name. "Jane Austen

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    be of less importance when discussing it along with money‚ this is shown within the opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice: “ It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. (Austen‚ 2006‚ P3) Austen’s use of the words ‘good fortune’ projects the importance of money within a relationship between men and women. By mentioning both marriage and money within the opening paragraph the reader is given the impression of what the two

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    Marriage As A Social Contract In Jane Austen’s ‘Pride And Prejudice’ “.It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife”. With these famous words‚ Jane Austen launched into what has come to be regarded by many as the greatest romance novel of all time. Written in late 1790’s England‚ in a time of radical social upheaval and political change‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ presents a mixed bag of social ideas relating to marriage‚ the

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    “Northanger Abbey” Austen crafts from start to finish a perfect paradigm of her own satirical wit and burlesqued humour‚ which go to all lengths imaginable to disguise and embed her novel’s transformations. These demonstrate her great skill as a satirist in making the reader dig for their own enjoyment. Her meaning is drenched in multiple interpretations causing even complete opposites like the transformed and unchanged to blur together‚ leaving as Fuller says‚ “The joke on everyone except Austen”; whose sophisticated

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    Cypress Ranch High School Ms. Piotrowsky 3rd Period English K/Dual First “Misleading” Impression In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the most common and concurrent theme is probably the theme of first impression. The entire novel‚ from beginning to end‚ travels around conclusions made from first impressions and how‚ in cases‚ they are wrong. In fact‚ the first proposition for the title of the novel was First Impressions not Pride and Prejudice. As the theme of the novel progresses‚ characters

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    Darian Campbell Mrs. Anderson AP Language and Composition Block 3 October 6‚ 2012 Literary Analysis of Northanger Abbey Jane Austen’s novel‚ Northanger Abbey‚ uses vivid diction and a distinct tone to portray each character in the novel. Austen begins the novel with a nonchalant tone and ends it with a more serious tone. She uses these tones of the novel‚ along with descriptive word choices to develop mental images of each character in the mind of her audience. In the opening paragraph

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