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    -Easy of temper -Found Jane B. attracted -Bonds with Jane a lot -Friend of Darcy -He has a large fortune -He is good looking and is a gentleman -Can be a slave to his friends (Darcy) Elizabeth B. -2nd oldest daughter of the Bennet family -Prejudice towards action and behavior -Uses her heart instead of her head in certain occasions for ex; -when Collins to her‚ she did not accept because she had no feeling towards him of any kind‚ she would rather marry for love. - Hates Darcy at

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    is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” The above quote encapsulates the message that is projected through Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice. It provides a detailed portrait of the social conventions of Austen’s time. The issues presented have been transformed to suit a modern audience in Sharon Macguire’s film‚ Bridget Jones’ Diary. These ideals are similar and include pridemarriage and class/reputation. Macguire

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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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    Pride and Prejudice: Irony "It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife".(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty headed Mrs. Bennet‚ and her desire to find a good match for each of her five daughters from the middle-class young men of the family’s acquaintance: "The business

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    mythology and epic heroes. However‚ to what extent can Robinson Crusoe be called the “first novel” and how is it different from all that have been done so far? Besides‚ what are the evolutions in the novel genre leading to Victorian novels‚ like Pride and Prejudice published almost one hundred years later (1813) in terms of style‚ themes and concerns? Augustan writers‚ before Daniel Defoe‚ were very protective of the status quo and their novels were philosophical and religious‚ based on a myth of the

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    "The Resplendent Quetzal"‚ by Margaret Atwood‚ is the story of Sarah and Edward‚ a disparaging husband and wife‚ who lost their child at birth and consequently lost their love for one another. This story focuses on the individual way that they dealt with the same tragedy and how it led them to become who they are today. Atwood uses symbolism and descriptive character analysis to show how far the degeneration of their relationship has gone. They both continue with their superficial relationship‚ unable

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    lonely. The individual has the option to continue climbing or return to their group. Even then that doesn’t account for hazards and changes in the path to the metaphorical summit. This metaphor sets up the remainder of the book brilliantly. Exile and Pride‚ following the mountain metaphor‚ is divided into two primary sections; home and bodies. Home is not exclusive to a place of residence but also a

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    even in front of his friends. 4. The positive qualities of being a team person is that everyone will listen and do what they say and the negative qualities is doing the wrong thing and not listening to what others have to say. 5. An example of prejudice and discrimination is the pub owner telling racist jokes and wouldn’t serve the aboriginals quick enough and the graffiti telling aboriginals to “piss

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    Name: Gary Dillon Professor: English 102 Date: April 24‚ 2013 Mr. Collins is a character in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. He is the cousin of Mr. Bennet and is the clergyman at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosing’s Park‚ the estate of his patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh. Because Mr. Bennet has no sons‚ Mr. Collins is the heir to the Bennet estate‚ Longbourn. Mr. Collins is twenty five years old and is described simply as being tall and heavy. An insensible man‚ he was raised

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    Compare and contrast how Shakespeare and Austen present the power of love in Othello and Pride and Prejudice. In order for love to be true it must come from both sides equally. Its power will not be strong enough to overcome all obstacles if its foundation is not pure. In Pride and Prejudice‚ Austen paints a portrait of the power of love as merely unbreakable whereas Shakespeare arguably portrays it as weak and vulnerable. Both Shakespeare and Austen use dialogue as a tool for the construction

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