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    above him. On the other hand‚ an individual with too little pride has an attitude of mediocrity and this hinders self-realization. Disproportionate pride blinds moral judgment‚ creates intolerance and deters relationships. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin is a novel that portrays individual characters who demonstrate a lack of balance in the way they perceive themselves and as a result they create ruin. Pride and Prejudice tells the most cherished love stories that take place in the

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    Gender Roles and Feminism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Throughout the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ Gender roles and feminism play a key role. The strong theme of Gender roles makes the smaller amount of feminism stand out. The themes of Gender Roles and Feminism help express the true nature of the characters in Pride and Prejudice. The theme of Gender roles throughout Pride and Prejudice shows the expectations and the reality of a British woman in the 1800’s. For most women of

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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen I have read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775‚ and died on the 18th of July in 1817 at an age of 41 years. She was brought up in wealthy family in the lower fringe of the landed gentry. She wrote romantic fiction and her works include novels such as Sense and Sensibility‚ Persuasion and Mansfield Park. She didn’t reach much public success during her lifetime‚ but has since then been critically approved

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    The Subtle Humor of Pride and Prejudice Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written‚ critics consider Pride and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book; in it’s character descriptions‚ imagery‚ but mostly in it’s conversations between characters. Her novels were not only her way of entertaining people but it was also a way to express her opinions and views on what surrounded her and affected her. Her novels were like editorials. Austen uses a variety

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    Pride and prejudice Based on the novel by Jane Austin Directed by Joe Wright [pic] How do you take a classic of Jane Austen and adapt it to the big screen- without missing the subtle details and innuendoes found in her novels? The movie “Pride and Prejudice” is not to be used as a substitute for her novels; rather it is a visually stimulating insight into the life of one of the world’s greatest romance heroines- enhanced by the extraordinary settings‚ vibrancy of costume‚ expressiveness

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    Book Report on Pride and Prejudice The author of Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen who was born in Steventon‚ Hampshire‚ in the south of England‚ in 1775 and died at the age of 41. She began writing at the age of fourteen as entertainment for her family. Austen’s early writing often made gentle fun of popular fiction of the time. Love and Friendship‚ her first book (completed in 1790)‚ was not very kind to those writers who scorned emotional self-control. Northanger Abbey was written at the

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    can be easily understood. Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice conveys various messages that pertains mainly about marriage and love. Most individual correlate marriage with love. However‚ in this novel‚ Jane Austen conveys the readers a totally different perspective of how marriage truly viewed as in her era. Prejudice among individuals due to class and status is one of the main theme the author mainly tried to convey throughout the story. Prejudices which are formed about people based on first

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    of “Pride & Prejudice”. Before Darcy’s proposal‚ Elizabeth main preoccupation with Darcy centres around dislike‚ but after it‚ we are able to detect a budding love towards him. However‚ Elizabeth’s attitude towards him corresponds to her perceived judgment of him‚ the supposed role he played in disinheriting Wickham and his admitted role in disrupting the romance between Jane‚ and Bingley (without listening to his side of story). As Elizabeth yields to her prejudices‚ Darcy allows his pride to take

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    CLASS AND GENDER IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written in the Regency period‚ during which England witnessed a decisive change in its hierarchical set-up. At that time gender and class expectations controlled and restricted the lives of people abiding them‚ particularly the women and the middle class. Each class was governed by a separate and distinct set of values and expectations that were strictly adhered to. The middle and the upper class were controlled by the

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    Feedback The correct answer is: mounting‚ shrinking Question 2 Partially correct Mark 0.50 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The poem “The Weary Blues‚” by Langston Hughes‚ focuses on all but the following elements of modernism:  Select one or more: a. fragmentary nature of thought b. erasing the disctinction between high and low art  c. using the first person voice  d. subjectivity  Feedback The correct answer is: fragmentary nature of thought‚ subjectivity Question 3 Correct Mark

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