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    Pride and Prejudice In the novel of Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen‚ the title of the novel itself bears significance to the themes pride and prejudice. Pride is defined as a feeling of honour and self-respect‚ satisfaction or pleasure taken in one ’s own or another ’s success or achievements (Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2000)‚ while‚ prejudice is defined as the act or state of holding unreasonable inflexible judgments or convictions especially towards other people (Houghton Mifflin Company

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    Jane Austen outlines her idea of the ideal marriage though Elizabeth and Darcy’s union in Pride and Prejudice. Their marriage is based on love and intellectual stimulation rather than lust or push of social pressure that is displayed in Lydia and Charlotte’s. Marriage is highly regarded in Austen’s world in reference to permanence. Many marriages are described in Pride and Prejudice‚ but three unions that are born within the story line of the novel strongly express Austen’s ideas and beliefs of marriage

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    In the novel‚ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ Elizabeth finds herself. She judges people the wrong way and overall contradicts everything she had previously thought. The number one thing she contradicted in the novel‚ was her happiness. She first claims to be happier than Jane but then says‚ “If you were to give me forty such men‚ I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition‚ your goodness‚ I never can have your happiness.” (Jane 424) By saying this it is assumed that Elizabeth

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    The name of the book: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Plot summary: Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the late 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets had 5 daughters: the beautiful Jane‚ the clever Elizabeth‚ the bookish Mary‚ the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately for the Bennets‚ if Mr. Bennet dies their

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    Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice 18th Century Domestic Novel Jane Austen - was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction‚ set among the landed gentry‚ earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. She experimented with various literary forms‚ including the epistolary novel which she abandoned‚ and wroted 3 major novels and began a 4. From 1811 until

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    Pride and Prejudice   Out of the many Movies that are out these days‚ we see many similar themes and ideas that go throughout the story. Yet‚ out of all these movies‚ one particularly came into my sight‚ Pride and Prejudice. This is a story following back all the way to the 19th century and beside the fact that there are many great celebrities there to make this movie much better‚ what makes this a great movie is that it tells a wonderful love story of a skeptical girl and a arrogant man that eventually

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    Pride and Prejudice Paper Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a satiric English novel written by Jane Austen. Satire is a work that blends a censorious attitude with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity. Darcy and Lady Catherine are wealthy people who treat the poor differently than people of the same class as them. Mr. Collins is a middle class man who is a cousin of the Bennet girls. Pride and Prejudice should be considered a satiric novel because Jane Austen

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    Elizabeth and Juliet both reject their parents’ choice of husband. How are strong feeling presented by the writers in these extracts? In Act 3 Scene 5 strong feelings are portrayed through out the scene. One example of this is at the start of the scene Juliet shows strong feelings of grief towards Romeo’s departure. “Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.” This shows that she misses Romeo although he has only just left. The word ‘loss’ gives off the impressing Juliet feels she will never see

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    Marriage is classified as a formal union between a man and a woman. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ this formal union is a prevalent factor in the relationships between many characters‚ whether the marriage is for love‚ or for financial security. There are developing relationships‚ relationships that begin at first sight‚ and relationships based solely on desperation. While all the women depicted in this novel improve their social situations through marriage‚ it is not always intentional‚ and

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    Theme of love and marriage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The intricate nexus of marriage‚ money and love in Jane Austen’s society is unfolded through the development of plots and characters of her novel Pride and Prejudice. In the nineteenth century’s rural England‚ marriage was a woman’s chief aim‚ both financially and socially. Financially because of women’s dependent position marriage was the "only honourable position"‚ infinitely preferable to the dependence of precarious shabby-genteel

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