Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen A Novel in Three Volumes by the Author of "Sense and Sensibility" First published in 1813‚ Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day‚ and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things)
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Sense and Sensibility: An Ironic Exposé on the Economics of Marriage Sense and Sensibility is the second novel written by Jane Austen and the first to be pub- lished. It is full of satiric wit‚ and for this reason is often grouped with the Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey as an immature effort that Austen made before finding her true literary voice. Irony‚ however‚ makes it easier to pinpoint Austen’s feelings on social customs. In addition‚ her irony is entertaining‚ often making the first books
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Cassy Penning English 1010 Research Paper 12-17-10 “The person‚ be it gentleman or lady‚ who has not pleasure in a good novel‚ must be intolerably stupid”-Jane Austen. Jane Austen has the power to say this because she is known as one of the best-loved English novelists (World Book). If a person does not find enjoyment from reading one of her books‚ they must not truly have read and understood the novel thoroughly. Austen’s work only recently became popular due to reproductions of her work
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On Characterization in Emma by Jane Austen Introduction Jane Austen‚ one of the distinguished English novelists of the 19th century‚ is indeed so fine an artist and credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Born on December 16‚ 1775‚ the seventh of eight children-six boys and two girls‚ she had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a rector of Steventon in the county of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived
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Essay‚ Custom Research Paper: Marriage in Jane Austen’s Works Marriage in Austen’s works is far from being mere union of two hearts‚ and each character involved is more or less concerned about such factors as wealth and social status‚ since they are part of a middle-class community in which comfort and happiness largely depend on material conditions. Marriage‚ in this sense‚ is not the simple advanced relation between a man and a woman‚ but "means a complete engagement between the marrying couple
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Pride and Prejudice is nowadays regarded as Jane Austen’s most enduringly popular novel. It was first published in 1813 and is a rewritten version of her earlier work First Impressions which had been refused for publication in 1797.1 Jane Austen worked on this novel during her most productive time‚ the first two decades of the nineteenth century. The setting of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ falls also to the time she lived and therefore delivers a detailed depiction of the existing society. The novel
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Jane Austen and Her Feminism ---analyzing of feminism revealed in Pride and Prejudice Introduction It is universally acknowledged that Jane Austen was a major woman novelist in English; but it is also a truth that almost as universally ignored that Jane Austen was a feminist. By intensively reading her six novels (Sense and Sensibility‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Northanger Abbey‚ Mansfield Park‚ Emma and Persuasion) and studying feminism‚ I have found some significant and fresh things
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house is the reflection of one’s wealth and societal status. In her novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen creates the almost immediate judgment of social class by the estates of Rosings Park and Pemberley in order to develop her characters. However‚ Austen uses the estates to form a different idea of what social status symbolizes. While both Rosings Park and Pemberley are estates of similar class‚ Austen provides a different insight at each estate as to how the wealthy live. When Elizabeth and her
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MAHA DOSTMOHAMED Maha Dostmohamed Ms. Jalaluddin ENG3U1 September 16th‚ 2011 Behind the Success of Jane Austen “In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great‚ some achieve greatness‚ and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” (William Shakespeare). In this quote‚ William Shakespeare is talking about the different ways that one becomes great. To be born great‚ for example‚ is comparable to someone born into a royal family‚ one who did not have to
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Jane Austen’s Word: a reading of Jane Austen’s novels shows that her materials are extremely limited in themselves. Her subject matter is limited to the manners of a small section of country-gentry who apparently never have been worried about death or sex‚ hunger or war‚ guilt or God. Jane Austen herself referred to her work as “Two inches of ivory.” In a letter to her niece‚ Jane Austen wrote‚ “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.” Those three or four families
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