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    may so express it‚ he has a right to be proud."(Pg15). She believes that he has the right to think himself higher than everyone else because he is socially higher than everyone. Elizabeth responds that she could have forgiven him for his sense of pride‚ if he hadn’t mortified hers. Austen notifies the readers that Mr. Darcy secretly admired Elizabeth‚ “ But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face‚ than he began to find it was rendered

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    British Literature Hinkley 8 Dec. 2012 Personal Response Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ is a great representation of how life in the 1800s would have been. Placement in society played a major role and most of her characters only did what society permitted them to do. The people who you were surrounded around either broke you or made you an influence on the town. The women seemed to look only for someone to marry them‚ not for someone to love them. The women in this novel‚ searched

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    since I could first remember‚ my parents have always bestowed in me the responsibility of taking pride in your work and keeping your mouth shut unless you know what you’re talking about. I first I do not understand why this was so important‚ and I figured that it was just something that my parents said to keep me out of trouble. Later on in life within the first 10 years of my life‚ I learned that these things are put in place to help me in growing up. The older I got the more stricter this these

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    Elizabeth. As stated by Joann Morse in her afterword to the novel‚ Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth move past the roles fixed for them to become full human beings with insight and understanding rather than flat figures of pride and prejudice . Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy do still experience some pride and some prejudice ‚ but unlike others‚ they are able to overcome that with some insight and understanding. ELIZABETH is described as having a defect to "willfully misunderstand everybody" (prejudice ). When

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    Being alienated in Pride and Prejudice In the novel Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is about families facing the challenges of alienation through clashing classes. Elizabeth‚ the elder alienated sister‚ is constantly up against society in the novel due to her differing views on how she should act. A recurrence shown through the novel is how society traps people into the usual gender and class role‚ by looking down on those who try to break out of such norms. Throughout the novel‚ Elizabeth

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    Rebellion and Pride Life always presents people with challenges. We are all provided rights from birth just because we are born human. A person is also born with challenges that he or she will have to overcome as a part of growing or maturing into an adult. We may try as human to ignore these natural barriers of life‚ but it doesn’ t change the fact that they are present. Today‚ we are going to discuss and talk about overcoming barriers and challenges in life such as pride‚ rebellion and

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    Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice had a long and varied life before it finally saw publication on January 28‚ 1813. Austen began the book‚ originally titled First Impressions‚ in 1796. Economic concerns are all over the place in this novel. One of the things that Austen does so well is to poke fun of the whole social class mentality of England during that time. In the novel‚ the social and economic classes are drawn very clearly. For example‚ the Bennets are middle class and they are made to know

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    individuals Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy (more widely known as Mr. Darcy) in Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. Carl R. Rogers‚ author of the book Psychology: A Study of a Science‚ zooms in on the character and effects of interpersonal relationships. Rogers notes the implications of broken relationships as well as the elements that cause a relationship to mend. In the movie‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ when Elisabeth hears about Mr. Darcy‚ a rich man who will stay in her country town for the

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    DOMESTIC CHRONOTOPE IN “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE” The Russian philologist and literary philosopher Mikhail Mikhailvoch Bakhtin (1895-1975) uses the term “Chronotope” to designate the Spatio-Temporal matrix‚ which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as “Time-Space”. The term is developed in Bakhtin’s essay‚ “Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel”. Bakhtin in his essay says that “a literary work’s artistic unity

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    Analysis of Feminism in Pride and Prejudice Name: 胡晓君 Maggie Student Number: 12011043 Analysis of Feminism in Pride and Prejudice Abstract:Pride and Prejudice is a marvellous novel of Jane Austen. Although in her age‚ women are regarded as emotional‚ weak‚ nurturing‚ and submissive‚ Austen depicts her heroine‚ Elizabeth as a woman who has her own perspectives‚ feelings‚ and opinions. This paper analyses feminism in Pride and Prejudice from its progressive

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