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    Jessica Fish Mrs. Sullivan English 9H Period 3 30 January 2017 Title Nineteenth century women were expected to be quiet and reserved‚ but there were some exceptions. Jane‚ of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre‚ is one of these exceptions. In her early life‚ Jane endures harsh treatment from her aunt and cousins‚ so she is sent away to boarding school in order to escape them. Later‚ she becomes a governess to a young girl‚ but leaves after romantic complications with her employer. Eventually

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    which characters we sympathize with. In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ Elizabeth Bennett is the focal character‚ which causes the reader to feel closest to her. The reader can relate more easily to her feelings and actions‚ and given that all of Elizabeth’s opinions on large issues are known and understood‚ the reader tends to side with her. By making the story from the point of view of Elizabeth‚ Austen is able to take advantage of the closeness between reader and character to

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    Bingley starts falling for Jane‚ but his sisters and friend don’t approve. An obstacle in the path of true love and familial happiness! Yes‚ this is conflict. To make matters worse‚ Darcy has developed a crush on Jane’s sister Elizabeth‚ and all the objections he has to Bingley marrying Jane (her lower class‚ crazy family) also apply to the prospect of him marrying Elizabeth. Complication Bingley’s sisters and Darcy succeed in dissuading Bingley from marrying Jane; Darcy sinks lower and lower

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    sarcastic‚ cynical sense of humour. Mrs. Bennet is a foolish noisy woman whose purpose in life is to see her daughters married. She wants a well situated man for them and doesn’t care at all what the girls think about her choice. She is very superficial. Jane Bennet‚ the oldest of the Bennet sisters. She is considered to be the most beautiful of them. She is tender‚ kind and never sees a fault in anybody else. She is quite reserved and that nearly was the reason for her loosing the love of Mr. Bingley.

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    continuous essay of no more than 1‚000 words‚ analyse the passage‚ discussing ways in which the narrative voice and dialogue are used. Throughout the passage‚ Jane Austen uses a variety of different narrative and dialogue techniques. The reader hears from three different people‚ an omniscient narrator‚ Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Bennet. Through these characters the technique of “showing” is used‚ which involved direct speech and “telling” where the narrator describes what is happening‚ what

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    brings forward. In the novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ author Jane Austen portrays her view of heroes‚ heroines‚ and villains in a satirically love story. Andrew H. Wright has written a literary criticism essay‚ titled “Heroines‚ Heroes‚ and Villains in Pride and Prejudice”‚ in which he states his opinion of Austen’s purpose. Although critic Andrew H. Wright states that some people are simply destined to be heroes‚ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen features characters that are capable of overcoming their

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    Elizabeth and Jane days after they received news about the departure of the Bingleys and Darcy. In this essay‚ I will explore the themes‚ the narrative techniques used and the tone of the involved characters. Austen’s dramatic form of writing is an attractive feature of Pride and Prejudice.The novel is ‘dialogic’ in nature; the dialogue between Jane and Elizabeth is a representation of their personalities and characters and Austen has purposefully juxtaposed Elizabeth opposite Jane to show the

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    The Social Evolution of Emma Woodhouse As the saying goes‚ one cannot judge a book by its cover. This is especially true in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. The novel pertains to this saying‚ but beyond that the characters do as well. Emma Woodhouse‚ the shallow heroine cannot see behind looks and what the reasoning is through people’s actions. She is so aloof to what is happening outside of her perspective that many people’s actions in the novel‚ which are predictable many times to the reader‚ end

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    Daguio c. Manuel Arguilla b. Francisco Arcellana d. Rony V. Diaz 5. Francisco Arcellana wrote the short story entitled _______. a. The Centipede c. The Mats b. How my brother Leon brought home a wife d. Wedding Dance READING COMPREHENSION Jane Austen is one of the most famous English novelists in the English literature. She was born in the south of England on 16th of December 1775. At age of 12‚ she started writing. She wrote plays‚ short stories and poems. She began her first novel ‘Sense and

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    The question asks us‚ “Explore the ways in which Jane Austen and Shakespeare present strong feelings in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Shakespeare and Jane Austen both present strong feeling of love‚ revenge‚ hatred and friendship. They are two different types of stories‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a novel and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a play so therefore they both have different ways of presenting strong feelings but they do have some similarities. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’

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