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    The story Pride and Prejudice is about Elizabeth Bennet –the protagonist- her four sisters‚ her mother and her father live in England in Harfordshire. Mr. Bingley a handsome‚ rich young man goes and visits where the Bennet’ s live and Mrs. Bennet tries to get one of her daughters married as soon as she sees the opportunity. Mrs. Bennet missing no time gets Jane Bennet (Elizabeth’s sister) to counter with Mr. Bingley- who she later marries- and falls in love but‚ Mr. Darcy separates them because 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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    |Relationships of Reality | |[An analysis of marriages present in Jane Austen’s Pride and | |Prejudice] | | | | | |

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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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    Austen‚ Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Bantam Books‚ New York‚ 1813-1981. Pride and prejudice is romantic novel and was written during a time of war in Britain where Austen grew up. This book is very interesting and it might rise a lot of question in it’s readers mind. This book is also the book I‘m doing my research on and though it has little comparison to history but it reflects a lot of values. The book talks mostly about marriage and reflects social issues. This novel shows us that love can overwhelm

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    Justin Johnson Hr 3 Literary Criticism Essay Pride and Prejudice The late 1700’s weren’t exactly a friendly time period for women and Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice affirms this. You were born into the life you live‚ so there wasn’t much independence for women who weren’t brought into wealth. The way to gain wealth or social status was through marriage if not already had. Wealth was key in many relationships between men and women and created a bond in which they thought was true happiness

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    does not have to be made of metal; often times it also consists of flesh. In the days‚of Jane Austen and the birth of Pride and Prejudice‚ wives were just prizes for men to adorn much akin to a medal. But has marriage seen evolution since then? Does there exist a palpable deviation? The social hierarchy and the unspoken requirements still remain against the ebb and flow of time. Social status‚ a long list of accomplishments‚ and a considerable collection of wealth are still sought for in matrimony despite

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    Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen 1) In Pride and Prejudice‚ a wealthy and powerful Mr. Darcy falls in love with a poor girl of a peculiar family with no background named Elizabeth‚ and although she rejects him at first with cold civility‚ throughout the book‚ both their character changes as they learn more about each other‚ and amidst many transitions‚ finally reach conjugal felicity in the end. 2) One of the themes in Pride and Prejudice is what a hasty first

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    society is driven by money and economy. All the social‚ historical changes that take place in a society are guided by changes in modes of production and class struggle. Marx also stated that the ruling class not only dominates the material sources of society‚ but also controls the intellectual modes of production. The ruling class circulates its ideas as the only rational‚ ideal‚ universal ideas‚ to maintain their hegemony. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written much earlier‚ however even then

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