Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austin was and English writer who wrote during the early 1800’s.
She was born and brought up in Seventon, Hampshire, Southern England.
She was born the fifth child to a family of seven and began writing
for family amusement as a child. Of her “six great novels”, four were
published anonymously and two were published under her signature after
her death. Her anonymous novels were “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride
and Prejudice”, Mansfield Park” and “Emma”. “Persuasion” and
“Northanger Abbey” were the two novels that were published after her
death.
“Pride and Prejudice” reflects the way society was in Jane Austin’s
day. It uses the way the characters are introduced, the way she uses
settings and many other details to describe the was the social classes
lie and also when she introduces dialogue to her characters she allows
for their social standings to affect the way they address the people
in their conversation in a way that reflects on their social standing.
In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austin tells about how one girl,
Elizabeth Bennett (the heroine of the book), helps her oldest sister
find love, she also helps her youngest sister and family through a
rough time when Lydia, the youngest sister, runs off with the
intentions of eloping; and then falls in love herself with a rich man
who at first she thought most disagreeable. She thinks that Mr Darcy
is disagreeable because of the way, in her prejudice, he seems proud.
The book is described by Margaret Drabble as being ‘In a wide range of
settings, love, vanity and recklessness are shown in this sparkling
novel…’
When Jane Austin first describes to you a character, she gives you an
idea of their temperament a...
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...going as far as boasting,
about the things that Elizabeth should and should not have in her life
and then going on about the way she should concentrate on unimportant
things and Lady Catherine also tries to convince Elizabeth to try and
get a master or even someone to show her how to do things in life.
In this novel I think that Jane Austin makes you believe that you are
in the story witnessing all of the events for yourself because she
writes in such an amount of detail and emotion that you might be
skipping from one character to the other. She also writes the novel
in such a way that as you re-read it you come to aspects of the plot
that you see differently or that you perhaps haven’t seen yet. I also
think that Jane Austin has described the main issues and main plot of
the story very well while intricately weaving other minor plots into
the main one.
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