Jane Austen is of the famous authors of the 17th century. An English Novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the aristocrats earned a place as one of the most widely read writers in English Literature. Austen, a woman who expresses writing in a manner that bridges the gap between romance and realism. Her lifelong efforts remain in our possession and are well known across the globe. Austen reflects on her journey of life and peruses to express those events in the form of stories. From substantial marks of chivalry to subliminal messages in her dialogues, all are inspirations from Austen’s personal life. Jane Austen is thought to be a woman who lead a narrow, inhabited life and who rarely travelled. On the contrary, her modern expression
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In support, she is labelled as a fantasist and visionary by her brother Henry in Jane Austens Biography. This exemplifies that she draws on her experiences and her dreams for the future and integrates them in to her writing. Her Characters reflect the people around her but the protagonist of the novels reflects parts of herself the most. In sense and sensibility and Pride and prejudice, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and Elizabeth Bennet, all disclose aspects of Austen, her experiences and dreams could never be achieved.
Sense and sensibility, is a story of unlucky fate that becomes a hurdle for two hopelessly romantic sisters. Sense and sensibilities, Elinor Dashwood reflects Jane Austen’s strait-laced sense of propriety and how she was the strength behind her families’ emotional and financial stability. Jane “practical and sensible, and she did what she thought best” (Tomalin). This was clearly evident after her father passed away, …show more content…
Marianne is light and airy with a fickle personality. Her emotions dictated her actions. This fighty characteristic can be perceived when Jane Austen attended a ball given by the Lefroys at Manydown House when she was twenty. There she met a handsome young Irish man, Tom Lefroy. Jane waltzed and entranced him with her joyful gimmicks which was not considered very lady like as Austen herself stated in a letter to her sister “ … I am most afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man. I assure you.” Deeming through this, during her years of spinsterhood she looked back on the evening when she acted like Marianne, controlled solely by her emotions. She did not want the speculations of society dragging her down. Also, Austen uses Marianne to share her outlooks of feminism. She shapes her opinions through her characters. Marianne, when she hears the phrase about women “setting their cap” at men, responds by saying how she detested the term and its tendency was uncivilized and parochial and how its construction would never be reasoned clever. Very subtlety, Austen implants her own feminist views into the dialogues of her character and makes her female characters pro-woman and pro-women’s
In support, she is labelled as a fantasist and visionary by her brother Henry in Jane Austens Biography. This exemplifies that she draws on her experiences and her dreams for the future and integrates them in to her writing. Her Characters reflect the people around her but the protagonist of the novels reflects parts of herself the most. In sense and sensibility and Pride and prejudice, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and Elizabeth Bennet, all disclose aspects of Austen, her experiences and dreams could never be achieved.
Sense and sensibility, is a story of unlucky fate that becomes a hurdle for two hopelessly romantic sisters. Sense and sensibilities, Elinor Dashwood reflects Jane Austen’s strait-laced sense of propriety and how she was the strength behind her families’ emotional and financial stability. Jane “practical and sensible, and she did what she thought best” (Tomalin). This was clearly evident after her father passed away, …show more content…
Marianne is light and airy with a fickle personality. Her emotions dictated her actions. This fighty characteristic can be perceived when Jane Austen attended a ball given by the Lefroys at Manydown House when she was twenty. There she met a handsome young Irish man, Tom Lefroy. Jane waltzed and entranced him with her joyful gimmicks which was not considered very lady like as Austen herself stated in a letter to her sister “ … I am most afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man. I assure you.” Deeming through this, during her years of spinsterhood she looked back on the evening when she acted like Marianne, controlled solely by her emotions. She did not want the speculations of society dragging her down. Also, Austen uses Marianne to share her outlooks of feminism. She shapes her opinions through her characters. Marianne, when she hears the phrase about women “setting their cap” at men, responds by saying how she detested the term and its tendency was uncivilized and parochial and how its construction would never be reasoned clever. Very subtlety, Austen implants her own feminist views into the dialogues of her character and makes her female characters pro-woman and pro-women’s