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    Pride and Prejudice Movie Review Pride and Prejudice came to life on the big screen in 2005. The movie was based on Jane Austin’s novel of the same name. The novel‚ being considered one of the most beloved books and one of the most popular in English literature‚ had high expectations. Director‚ Joe Wright‚ took on the task. Fortunately‚ he did not disappoint. The movie is effective at communicating the plot‚ setting‚ and characters to audience. First of all‚ this romantic period drama starts

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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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    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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    Jane Austen and Shakespeare present strong feelings in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Shakespeare and Jane Austen both present strong feeling of love‚ revenge‚ hatred and friendship. They are two different types of stories‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a novel and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a play so therefore they both have different ways of presenting strong feelings but they do have some similarities. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’ strong feelings are presented by: 1. The Narrator

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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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    for teens to read. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are commonly known as novels read in high school. Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennett as she tries to follow her heart during the Regency Period; Romeo and Juliet follows two lovers from two feuding families. Pride and Prejudice is relevant to teens and is valuable to today’s education system‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ on the other hand‚ is not. The themes of Pride and Prejudice provide a relevant

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    Jane Austen ’s _Pride and Prejudice_ Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist‚ who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life and whose works have set her among the most widely read writes in English Literature. Daughter of a Church rector‚ she lived most of her life in the enclosed circle of the country middle-class‚ which constituted the main source of inspiration for her work. She created the comedy of manners which is

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    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 class expectations restricted the English society. The novel is a critique of society through social satire by the means of social caricatures embodied in Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine de Burgh. The

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    adaptations to Austen have decided to downplay these themes‚ however‚ in exchange for playing up the romance. These films reveal the 20th century emphasis on romance at the cost of excluding the already established importance of self-knowledge. Pride and Prejudice‚ Austen ’s first written but later published novel‚ is a commentary on the importance in society of inheritance and achievement. Austen obviously valued one ’s achieved virtues over inherited status‚ a revolutionary notion for a female of the

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