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    AP English Literature 10/14/13 Pride and Prejudice: Socialization Social class has a monumental impact on a person’s social behavior; their impressions on other individuals and society as a whole are greatly influenced by their social class/position. These “first impressions” can have disastrous effects to both the person forming the impressions and the person/people to whom they are directed towards‚ often because these perceptions blind people from their own personal faults and foibles.

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    Joelle Gabbard  English 12  P & P Dialect.  12.26.14    Entry 1 ­ Page 1  “This truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families‚ that he is considered as  the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.”    The author is saying that this is sad truth that’s around our society of men owning women‚  or feeling a sense of women belong to men. This is sick to me. Women are just as strong  and just as good of people as men‚ and nobody owns anybody. Every person on this earth 

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    English Book Report Name: Ngai Hi Lin Class: 5CW Group: 5EN01 Name of book: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Black Cat Publishing Introduction of the author: Jane Austen was an English novelist of romantic fiction‚ which always set among the landed gentry. She wrote six novels in total‚ including Sense and Sensibility‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Mansfield Park‚ Emma‚ Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. We can usually see biting irony and social commentary in her books‚ and the plots

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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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    universal ideas explored in a literary work. Love Pride and Prejudice contains one of the most cherished love stories in English literature: the courtship between Darcy and Elizabeth. As in any good love story‚ the lovers must elude and overcome numerous stumbling blocks‚ beginning with the tensions caused by the lovers’ own personal qualities. Elizabeth’s pride makes her misjudge Darcy on the basis of a poor first impression‚ while Darcy’s prejudice against Elizabeth’s poor social standing blinds

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    Pride and Prejudice’s Negative Character Traits In Jane Austen’s unique 19th century love story‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Austen shows negative aspects in a good amount of her characters to make heavy conflict arise throughout the novel. “Austen explains that someone’s actions explain how their morals are” (Bloom 1). Some characters put up facades and try to hide their feelings from others within the story‚ while other characters wear their hearts on their sleeves and always show what they feel inside

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    Pride and Prejudice Analysis First impressions powerfully influence perceptions of people. Elizabeth’s initial judgment of Darcy keeps her from acknowledging the chemistry they have‚ creating an internal struggle between attraction and prejudice. The social class barriers that separate her and Darcy bind Elizabeth to her social status. Therefore‚ she becomes unwilling to recognize the attraction she has for him due to an inability to act on it. This internal struggle between attraction and prejudice

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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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    Jane Austin uses the novel Pride and Prejudice to comment on both class and gender expectations within a fixed society. She questions both the class stratification of the time‚ and the unreasonable expectations placed on gender‚ and the inequality between males and females. Written in 1796‚ Austin lived during the regency period‚ in which the novel is based and understood both the issues she was commenting on. Austin used setting‚ and descriptions of the estates to give information on the characters

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    Summer Reading Assignment English Language AP Dialectical Journals Passage/Quotes from Text Page #/¶ Response 1. "The priest was blessed with a long‚ incriminating finger‚ which he used to point out sinners in public‚ and tongue schooled in arousing emotions." Pg 2 /¶2 (C) As I continued reading on how the priest was to spot the sins his fellow community has committed‚ it kind of surprised me. My priest could probably tell the people who sin from the guilt that appears in their face but the

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