Composers are connected in their desire to express their personal values within a changing world The comparative study of Fay Weldon’s non fiction text Letters to Alice and Jane Austen’s comedy of manners narrative Pride and Prejudice reveal connections between the authors in their desire to express their personal values and beliefs through the vehicle of their fictional characters. Exploration of connections such as the value of literature and the lives of women in different societies presented
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Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen Letters to Alice- Fay Weldon An examination of Jane Austen’s 1813 social satire Pride and Prejudice‚ and the reading of Fay Weldon’s 1984 epistolary text Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen‚ allows understanding of Austen’s novel to be moulded and then shifted. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners‚ focusing on marriage‚ Pride‚ Prejudice and Social Class which are projected through the characters‚ gentry-class setting and Austen’s authorial comment
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being imperative to a 19th century woman’s life evokes an appreciation within the modern audience for the time they live in‚ re-altering Austen’s writing to be relevant to modern child. Supported by Weldon. “Child you don’t know how lucky you are”. This notion that to “marry was a great prize”(Weldon) for any ‘successful’ woman‚ is an unfamiliar and irrelevant concept to the modern child. * As a modern child the contrasting values between Austen’s context and today‚ prompt the appreciation the
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ESSAY “The life and loves of a she-devil” Fay Weldon 1. AUTHOR Fay Weldon (born on 22 September 1931) is an English author‚ essayist and playwright‚ whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction‚ Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society. Weldon was born in Birmingham‚ England‚ to a literary family. Weldon spent her early years in Auckland‚ New Zealand
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delving into the Georgian-England era by Jane Austen‚ and Fay Weldon’s epistolary novel‚ ‘Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen’ (1984)‚ responders mend the contextual gap by reflecting on the evolution of ideals‚ as it gives the opportunity to evaluate and amend previous social norms to fit today’s context. The comparative study explicitly illuminates Austen and Weldon’s shared purpose to denote how
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the values explored in Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice? Fay Weldon’s non fiction text‚ Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen‚ uses Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ to create connections between the values of the modern world and that of Austen’s. Through a range of literary techniques‚ Weldon is able to compare the values of the 20th century to that of regency England in the 19th century. The values that Weldon draws upon include‚ marriage‚ the social hierarchy and the importance
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against Jane Austen’s context and that of Fay Weldon. Mirroring Austen’s novel‚ Weldon presents the central values for women such as the social values of moral behaviour‚ independence‚ and‚ literary values of reading and writing‚ from Pride and Prejudice and adapts them to a 20th Century context. Weldon’s novel’s subtitle‚ On First Reading Jane Austen‚ suggests that the novel should serve as a filter to assist readers. The implication of this is that Weldon enables her readers to identify more fully
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landscape has developed into a more independent one. Identity and what constitutes an individual’s identity has altered drastically with more focus on education as opposed to wealth and status. Connections made between Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen and Fay Weldon’s non-fiction text Letters to Alice allow development of a deeper understanding of these values‚ utilising a range of literary techniques to enhance meaning. Through the connections made between PP and LA‚ responders gain a deeper understanding
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Prejudice’ and ‘Letters to Alice’ Fay Weldon’s ‘Letters to Alice on First reading Jane Austen’‚ through the didactic literary form of an epistolic novel‚ serves to encourage a heightened understanding of the role of women in Jane Austen’s social‚ cultural and historical context‚ and also aims to present the parallels of women in both texts. In doing so‚ it inspires the modern responder to adopt a more sincere appreciation for the perspectives of Austen and Weldon of women inherent in both ‘Pride and
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and Prejudice and Fay Weldon in Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen conflict with and challenge the values of their contemporary society and serve to offer moral perspectives opposing to those of their respective societies. Connections can be made between the role of the writer and their purpose in both texts and‚ particularly through consideration of Weldon’s contextualisation and form‚ the reader’s perspective of both texts is reshaped and enhanced. Furthermore‚ Weldon perceives and forges
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