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    been if I accepted your grant to dance with me in the first place. Maybe if that happened‚ Jane would not be struggling with Mr. Bingley either. I hate the guilt I hold about shunning you. Since I met you‚ I was blinded about how you felt about me or anyone else. I questioned your actions towards me and whether they were genuine or you were doing it in a disrespectful manner. I cannot blame you anymore for Jane and Mr. Bingley not working

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    Scholarship concerning Jane Austen’s views and use of children within her novels has not received as much attention as other aspects of her writing in spite of the intense interest in all other aspects of her life and writing over the last two centuries. It was long assumed that‚ since she never married‚ she did not like children and that what she wrote about them shows children in a negative light. Scholarly investigations of her letters and family documentation concerning her life and times describing

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    In addition‚ firstly‚ fire and water imagery symbolize in Gateshead‚ when Jane is speaking of her loneliness in Gateshead’s famous red room where Mr. Reed died. Red room described its haunted atmosphere of fear by the description of the physical aspects of the room because of the Gothic status of this novel. But some critics argue that red room was a symbol of the womb for Jane in order to reborn as an obedient child‚ that is why she locked in the red room. The first stage of Jane’s life with Reed

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    irony. Thomas Love Peacocks "Headlong Hall"‚ "Nightmare Abbey’‚"Maid Marian" and so on are the vehicles of attacks on the cranks and the fads of his day.but very few writers have exploited all possible resources of irony as Jane Austen.It may not be an exaggeration to say that Jane Austen is nothing if not ironical.Irony is her very forte;it is in fact the very soul of her art. Pride and Prejudice‚ for instance‚ is steeped in irony.To put it in other words‚ it is an artistic blend of ironic and dramatic

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    readings by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens both prospective grooms know that having a wife will be a good thing for them. Each story illustrates its own actions and feelings that lead to marriage proposals‚ but both are set in different tones and are for different reasons. Austen’s emphasis is one of acumen‚ while Dickens’ resonance is one of amorousness. The ending result however of both proposals although for different reasons is what benefit’s the suitors. In the passages from Jane Austen’s

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    Do you really know what went on during the holocaust well Jane Yolen wrote a special book about how life was like in the concentration camps which later turned into a movie. There are many different things that go on in between the book and the movie like how there is a major age difference and how Rivka ends up being her cousin. That is some but there’s also many similarities like how Hanna still tells her stories to keep everybody together and how Hanna still sacrifices herself for Rivka. Well

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    Jane Austen’s‚ Sense and Sensibility‚ follows the journey of two young women as they search for a suitable husband. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood have many obstacles in their way as they try to develop relationships‚ and many of these obstacles come from society. During the Regency Era in England‚ there were many rules placed by society that affected courtship and dating. Society deemed what was the proper way to date and who was proper to date. Looking at the society’s expectations of dating in the

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    clearly) the idiosyncrasies of the various couples within the book‚ Austen parodies the use of marriage to obtain social advancement. Comparison and contrast enables readers to recognise that the Elton relationship is shallow‚ that of Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax‚ based largely on passion‚ while that of Emma and Mr Knightly is grounded on long standing regard‚ respect‚ and mutual affection. Love / Marriage Marriage is a central theme within the text‚ and shown through several different relationships

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    The passages taken from Jane Austen’s and Charles Dickens’ novels show differences in marriage proposals. The type of rhetoric used by each man causes different effects . In the first excerpt taken from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ the man reasons that he must set an example for all others in his parish by taking a wife. Not only will he have made use of the advice given him by his patroness‚ Lady Catherine de Bourgh‚ but this wife shall give him happiness. "First‚ that I think it a right

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    something the first time you hear something about a person or meet someone. The book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ which is about love‚ portrays that statement very well. In this book a gentleman named Mr. Darcy‚ whom the majority of the town hates at first. Mr. Darcy is in love with Elizabeth and tries to win her‚ even though she doesn’t want him based off of what she first learned about him. Jane Austen uses character development in order to illustrate how you shouldn’t always judge a person based

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