Jane Austen’s regency novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a novel that is already appreciated by society but in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the novel‚ context must be explored. Letters to Alice: on First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon evokes a deep appreciation of Austen’s social conventions and incorporates her own context so the reader can appreciate and understand the progression of social values. By reading Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice‚ an enriched holistic appreciation
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Pride and Prejudice Both Texts Letters to Alice Connections/Comments about texts Context (prompts‚ purpose‚ shapes‚ values) Personal context and social‚ political and historical context Austen is covert and implicit because she is female “if you turned out to be barren‚ that was a terrible disaster‚ not just personally but socially” “breaking through the thin walls between idea and experience” – reality poking into your life and preventing artists notions A teacher Cold war reference
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to do so than their older counterparts. These young women are much more likely to seek out clothing that is super trendy‚ or easily transitions from the office to nighttime. 18-24s are also less concerned with “no iron” or “tumble dry” on the label (Fay). Younger women are more cares about style and fashion‚ and mid age women focus more on its quality (Refer to Figure.1). • Men and Boys Overwhelmingly‚ men dress for comfort. Some 85% of men surveyed say this best describes their personal style
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William Wegman is an artist particularly known for the photography of his dogs‚ Man Ray and Fay Ray. Fay Ray was purchased after the death of Man Ray‚ Fay Ray then gave birth to a litter of puppies‚ Battina‚ Crooky and Chundo. Wegman as well kept Battina’s off spring‚ Chip. Then Chip’s son Bobbin‚ then Candy and Chip’s puppy Penny. All dogs Weimaraner breed‚ all dogs featured in Wegmans artwork. In this piece in particular is Penny. In Red Toy the subject of this work is a large grey dog covered
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Prejudice are creatively reshaped in Letters to Alice. The two texts‚ Letters to Alice and Pride and Prejudice‚ mirror and contrast the central values shared and explored by evaluating them; presenting them 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
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Charlie Gordon‚ a mentally retarded thirty-two-year-old man‚ is chosen by a team of scientists to undergo an experimental surgery designed to boost his intelligence. Alice Kinnian‚ Charlie’s teacher at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults‚ has recommended Charlie for the experiment because of his exceptional eagerness to learn. The directors of the experiment‚ Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur‚ ask Charlie to keep a journal. The entire narrative of Flowers for Algernon is composed of the
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The female figures in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Queen Guinevere‚ Lady Bertilak‚ and Morgan le Fay‚ play an important role in the shaping of Sir Gawain’s destiny on his quest of his own beheading. This essay will discuss the most powerful female figure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Lady Bertilak‚ and how her role in Sir Gawain’s quest to find the Green Knight shaped his destiny. Lady Bertilak isn’t introduced in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight until Sir Gawain is already on his quest
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Church of Sainte-Fey Conques‚ France 1050-1120 Monastic (monks) church turned pilgrimage center Conques is a major pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela Contained relics of 4th century child-martyr St Fay Reliquary Statue of St Fay‚ Abbey Church of Conques France‚ Silver gilt over wooden core Skull reliquary Spolia She had converted to Christianity before it was legal‚ so she was sentenced to death by burning alive. They shackled
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understanding in the pairs of texts set for study. To what extent is this made evident in the texts you have studied? (Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice) Through exploring the connections between Jane Austen’s canonical Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen readers gain a better understanding of the ways the values explored in the former are reshaped to contextually fit the latter. Although Austen and Weldon voice their perceptions and criticisms of
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Despite the vast change in context‚ purpose and audience‚ both Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice (1984) address universal and timeless issues within society in order to challenge perspectives and understandings of them. Each explore the values and attitudes ascribed to marriage and women‚ and through an intertextual reading of both Austen and Weldon‚ a contextualisation of both constructs grows. The exploration of the construction of values regarding marriage
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