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    My Favourite Book

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    My favourite book «Pride and prejudice» Jane Austen Made by Khodjimukhamedova Dayana 06-12 group I like reading very much. Books are the history and tastes of each era. Some of them hopelessly lost its charm‚ others - are relevant and are read with interest today. Every writer wanted to write for ages‚ but could he or no; it turns out in subsequent generations. I can say that I love all kinds of books. I have a lot of them‚ they are different‚ some imaginative‚ other fantastic. «Pride of woman

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    http://www.pemberley.com http://voices.yahoo.com http://www.bookrags.com www.spartacus.schoolnet.co Marriage :- Marriage(also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses‚ between the spouses and their children‚ and between the spouses and their in-laws.The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures. It takes a considerable leap of the imagination for a woman

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    be in want of a wife" (Austen 1). Jane Austen started her novel Pride and Prejudice this way because it clearly states that marriage is going to be a theme. The line also implies that men who are financially stable must want to get married. We come to find that in some cases this is true‚ mainly because they must produce an heir. The most frequent circumstance though is that a female without money or beneficial family will be in search of a husband. In fact in Jane Austen ’s Pride and Prejudice

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    Jane Austen’s 1813 novel‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Fay Weldon’s 1984 epistolary text‚ ‘Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen’ (Letters to Alice) are written regarding their individual contexts. A parallel study of these two didactic texts‚ composed in different centuries‚ develops a deeper understanding of the opposing values in relation to their own society. When read as a pair the obvious connection of societies failure to accommodate women’s happiness as a worthwhile moral project highlights

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    Weldon’s Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (Letters to Alice) is an epistolary novel containing a series of letters from Aunt Fay to her niece Alice who is currently studying English Literature at college. Alice has been told to read Jane Austen but thinks that Austen is “boring‚ petty and irrelevant” (Letters to Alice‚ Page 7). Aunt Fay attempts to convince Alice to read Jane Austen by talking about the life and work of Jane Austen‚ and tries to explain Literature to Alice. She encourages

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    gentleman is typically seen as a strong symbol of masculinity and elegance‚ it’s hard to not fall for their charm with the English female being the submissive housewife with utter beauty‚ but never her own opinion. In Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen‚ this is certainly not the case. First published in 1813‚ the story is about the romance between the young heroine Elizabeth Bennet‚ the prejudiced middle class daughter and the proud‚ wealthy eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy as they both overcome

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    Jane Austen’s regency novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a novel that is already appreciated by society but in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the novel‚ context must be explored. Letters to Alice: on First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon evokes a deep appreciation of Austen’s social conventions and incorporates her own context so the reader can appreciate and understand the progression of social values. By reading Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice‚ an enriched holistic appreciation

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    Raymond Williams

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    Raymond Williams The twenty months between 1847 and 1848 were decisive for the English Novel. These months marked a new kind of consciousness‚ related to the ‘new and unprecedented civilisation in which it took shape.’ Williams attributes this consciousness to certain major changes which were taking place at this time. He lists the ever expanding influence of the Industrial Revolution‚ the struggle for democracy‚ the growth of cities and towns and Chartism (political and social reforms in the mid

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    PRIMOGENITURE

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    Christina Hernandez Senior Seminar Essay No. 1 Primogeniture Distorts the Idea of Marriage According to Merriam-Webster’s on-line dictionary‚ marriage is‚ “the state of being united to a person in a consensual contractual relationship recognized by law.” This definition never mentions love even though most people who decide to marry one another determine that the reason they enter into marriage is because they love one another. Primogeniture however changes the idea that one should love the

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    Pride and Prejudice

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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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