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    through the characters. Throughout the novel‚ the characters’ marry because of love or societal pressure. The author also portrays the class and reputation throughout her characters. In the book‚ there are three main marriages the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy‚ Lydia and Mr. Wickham‚ and Jane and Mr. Bingley. In the 18th centurywomen were very dependent on their spouse. Many thought financial and social support was through marriage. Women required men from higher class to have

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    Married Women ’s Property Acts in 19th century America Ojeda‚ Joselyn Married Women ’s Property Acts in 19th century America was a push forward for women to be individuals and not have to rely on their husbands. Period.1 March 15‚ 2014 Process Paper 1. How and why you selected your topic. The first few weeks before black history day started we had to select a topic what was in a list and when skimming through the list Married Woman’s Property Acts of 19th Century America

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    Pride and Prejudice Book Review Pride and Prejudice‚ a classic novel by Jane Austen‚ tells the story of a complicated love that develops between what was thought to be two very different personalities. The protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ misjudges a man upon rumor and appearance‚ but finds out she is extraordinarily wrong. The novel explains how difficult it is to fully understand someone after settling upon assumptions and being under the influence of the authorities around them. However this

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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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    Pride and Prejudice Themes and MotifsTHEMES Class Class is the target of much of the novel’s criticism of society in general. Austen makes it clear that people like Lady Catherine‚ who are overly invested in their social position‚ are guilty of judging that a person’s social rights are strictly defined by their class. Other characters‚ like the stuck-up Mr. Collins and the scheming Caroline‚ are depicted as thoroughly empty‚ their opinions and motivations completely defined by the dictates of the

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    pass‚ it lives on through their many novels or poems. In Julia Prewitt Brown’s article she explains how Jane Austen’s voice is heard throughout Pride and Prejudice within the narrator’s voice. Austen’s life is portrayed in subtle yet impactful ways in the way that she writes as well as what she writes. Julia Prewitt Brown states in “A Narrator’s Voice” that Pride and Prejudice can be viewed in a variety of ways: “ The discourse of the rest of Pride and Prejudice… falls into two broad categories‚ narrative

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    In Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen opens the novel with the line‚ “It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife” (Austen 3). In this line‚ Austen is mocking what was considered to be a societal norm in the nineteenth century: the trophy wife. In this particular line‚ the voice that makes this proclamation is feminine. Furthermore‚ the voice is not only feminine but it also seems to be annoyed by this particular societal norm

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    Originally written in the late 1700s‚ Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice satirically depicts the universal ideals in Regency England‚ primarily regarding social class. Austen follows the development of an outspoken‚ middle-class British woman‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ as she encounters and overcomes the many social barriers that separate her from her aristocratic neighbors. Throughout the novel‚ Lizzie must face society’s class-consciousness‚ particularly with her family’s growing relationship with the wellborn

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    Meaghan 4.25.2013 Period-3 Summary * In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is about the Bennett family meeting the Bingleys who have just moved into a home for the time being. As Mrs.Bennett hears of the news she tells the girls to get ready for the ball to meet the Bingleys. Well at the ball Jane‚ the eldest sister and Mrs.Bennett meet Mr.Bingley who already seems interested in Jane. As they are talking Mrs.Bennett asks about Bingley’s friend Mr.Darcy who is watching everyone dance and

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    In the nineteenth century‚ individuals‚ including Charlotte Bronte‚ were discriminated against because of their gender and role in society. Because she was woman who was succeeding in literature‚ she was judged. Bronte had to deal with the harsh society‚ just as Jane had to struggle with living with her rude family‚ the Reeds‚ and frustrating marriage with Rochester. Frank Magill confirms that‚ “One can imagine that the novel appealed to women then‚ and today‚ because it reflects the frustratingly

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