Power, Fantasy, And Subversion In Judith Lowder Newton's Pride And Prejudice

In the article "Pride and Prejudice": Power, Fantasy, and Subversion in Jane Austen of Judith Lowder Newton, Judith Lowder Newton determines the comparison between the socioeconomic factors of men and women in the novel and in the eighteenth century of the English society.

She first begins with the introduction of Jane Austen’s life circumstances, how small amount of money she had with her mother and her sister and the better life circumstances of her five brother whilst they had got access to work that was paid, inheritance and preference and also the right for independence, personal power that is prosperous and masculinity.

She still supports her view by arguing that in the novel, there is a critical emphasis on the difference between the economic privilege of middle-class women and that of middle-class men, where the first two sentences of Pride and Prejudice make a significant indication of shaping the female life and the male life.

Besides, she highlights that indirection, deviousness, evasion are traditionally covers for femininity and also the meaning of disguising aggression against things they are and she suggest through these attitudes, a woman expresses discomposure about, and subtly subverts, the traditional lots, the classical and traditional powerlessness and the function and power of women and men.

What she wanted to aim actually, is to clarify that men are dominated in the society both economic and social privilege and freedom.

According to Newton, a man's social and economic privilege and freedom confer more extreme power upon a woman, where a woman nonetheless emerges as the more powerful figures, no matter how wealthy or rich she is.

Furthermore, she underlines some points about the need of marriage for young w...

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...ut also due to it has got a fluent language that can be also understood easily.

If you like novels are written and reflecting the past, you should read this book because it plays in the eighteenth century and while you read this book, you do not notice how the time is going on fast.

It is not typical for a love romance, but a love story travelling along which is still so romantic today that someone forgets everything with the charm of the time then around himself like the typical old books. The obstinate Elizabeth, at first, does not like the impressive and arrogant Mr. Darcy particularly despite the efforts and rejects her first. But a deep love discovers her to him at the end.

Pride and Prejudice was written enormous beautiful. I highly recommend this great novel to anyone who is interested in stories from the eighteenth century and for confusing love stories.