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Bodily Currency: Money, Marriage and Beauty in Moll Flanders, Pride & Prejudice, & Jane Eyre Although the leading ladies of Moll Flanders, Pride & Prejudice, & Jane Eyre may seem very different at first, they do have one thing in common; these are women who understand the power of their beauty, whether it be physical or not. Having this understanding, and using it wisely, enables all three women to obtain the worldly goods, and marital partner(s) they desire. Starting with Moll, and moving in a…

Elizabeth Bennet, a character in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has a reputation as a beautiful girl who is intelligent and is raised from a family of five sisters. Her reputation comes from her family, in which she is mostly influenced on shaping her identity and who she really is. However, later in her life, her dignity and inherited reputation are changed by external influences. Fortunately, her change by external sources were positive. On the other hand, a celebrity, Britney Spears, had…

In Austen’s work, everyone wants to get married but there isn’t a lot of love. For sisters, Jane and Lizzy, there love with Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy is something short of a miracle because it didn’t happen very often back then. This is because the core of most marriages back in the late 18th and early 19th century as we can see from Pride and Prejudice, were economic necessity or…

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. The rationale for the study Jane Austen has long been a widely read author in English literature. Though she was famous merely for her works of romantic fiction, her perception of women and how they could have earned their positions in the society was far ahead of her time. Some might say this was because of her reactionary thoughts, which were true at some points considered that period of time was “an age characterized by gender inequality” for women (Hunter, 2014).…

Opposites Attract in Pride and Prejudice The story Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy and how they fell in love despite being opposites. This paper will look at how opposites attract and how Elizabeth’s feelings shifted from contempt to love, as well as Mr. Darcy’s initial feelings for Elizabeth. In the book the five Bennett sisters are looking for husbands. This is because the family is having financial problems and marrying men of standing and wealth…

Darcy is quick to decide that Jane does not reciprocate Bingley’s feelings (Rytting). Instead of taking the time to acquire more information or simply take the time to ask Jane, he jumps to conclusions. This results in the separation of Jane and Bingley and a broken heart on both ends. In addition, Darcy is prejudice towards Elizabeth, and is unwilling to see her as beautiful; “[Mr. Darcy] had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to…

CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Women during sixteen, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were not allowed to express their views. Women tried to speak and this became a major issue which gave attention to women, their modern thoughts at the end of the 18th century they were allowed to speak out against injustices. Though modern feminism was not there at that time but many women show their interest and tried to face the problems by using many interesting ideas and creative methods. In other words, we…

Novels commonly reflect the author’s time period and conflicts that the author had encountered to shape his/her view that is evident throughout the novel. Likewise, Jane Eyre, published in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë, reflects Brontë’s contradicting views with the values of her time period. While the novel presents Jane’s harsh life and her transformation, the novel mostly consists of Brontë’s challenge to what was deemed acceptable at the time; hence the subtitle An Autobiography. Brontë’s…

During the time of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, women were judged by the many different things that they did or didn’t do. One of the biggest things that came into play when determining the purity of a girl were her sexual relationships and if she was a promiscuous woman or not. In Much Ado about Nothing and Pride and Prejudice, we see that the promiscuity of male characters is treated differently and is seen as socially acceptable. Society has set and shaped standards causing women to have…

To what extent does marital status affect Austen’s writing of “Emma” and “Pride and Prejudice” in the 18th to early 19th century? Austen’s use of marital status is very significant in her books “Emma” and “Pride and Prejudice.” I found marital status worthy of study because it reflects the time periods used in Austen’s work. The two books show different yet accurate female perspectives of marriage at that time. With Austen’s use of Charlotte Lucas we are shown how an intelligent yet not…