Bridget Sullivan

Pride and Prejudice is a representative of the realistic novel. It undeniably plays a significant role in the history of British literature. The author, Jane Austen is one of the greatest women writers in the world. The novel shows vivid and complicated relationships between characters and reflect the importance of marriage for women in the early nineteenth century. Austen mainly depicts two disparate marriage attitudes between Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas. The story is set in a society…

Jane Austen uses Elizabeth’s wit, aptitude, and humor to show the contrast between her and Women in the Regency era, It was important for Jane Austen to do this because the literary world had never seen something like this before. Austen writes Elizabeth as a character who is cunning and smart. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” She possesses beliefs that were not commonly seen…

In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the relationships between characters show different views on how and why partnerships are developed in the 1800’s. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy’s relationship is established on honesty and love while the bond between Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley is built on love and companionship. In contrast, the marriage of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins is one created by societal pressures. Based on the three relationships discussed, I believe Jane Austen saw Elizabeth…

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by the English author Jane Austen. It was first published in 1813 and is thought to be one of the most popular novels in English literature. The story focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the Bennet family, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, her love interest. Following the plot, the reader can see how these two manage to overcome all the obstacles and achieve romantic happiness. An interesting – but not very known- fact about the book is that it was…

A Comparison of Mr. Rochester’s and St. John Rivers’ relationships towards Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre provides two masculine characters who show an interest in taking Jane to wife. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers are the two men in Jane Eyre’s life when it comes to courtship and marriage. Both are interesting and different in their approach. In the process of meeting and getting to know the both men, Jane goes through a mental process of getting to know herself and her…

“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” (Fitzgerald.) This is one of many examples of how women are treated with manipulation in, ‘The Great Gatsby.’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel, written in 1925, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This historical fiction takes place in 1922, following characters that live in New York. ‘The Great Gatsby’ movie was released in 2013, as a romantic drama, and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. It contains the same…

“Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

It is important for a young woman, especially one of Lydia's uncertain future, to marry decently; in the Bennet household, marriage is held as the uttermost goal by the lady of the house, if not her husband. And Mr. Bennet, if he has any true qualms about Lydia's behavior, does nothing to stop it. When Elizabeth confronts him later in the novel about his cultivation of Lydia's alleged frivolity by allowing her to go to Brighton, Mr. Bennet brushes her concerns off by saying, "Lydia will never be…

Elizabeth Bennet, an at first young and vulnerable woman, is soon perceived to be the dire opposite of vulnerable, as her characteristics materialize throughout the novel. She is first revealed to be uncommonly modest regarding her personality, and later displays bravery as she is true to her personality, even when doing so may lead to criticism from the women surrounding her. Criticism may also come from her refusal to conform to the ideas of marriage, a decision validated by denying a proposal…

True love never lies, and it never fails. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the Bennet family and Mrs. Bennet’s quest to get her 5 daughters married. The opening chapter begins with Mrs. Bennet telling her daughters about Mr. Bingley, a new upper class and wealthy neighbor. Mr. Bennet, the polar opposite of his wife, refuses to follow the social norm of going to meet the bachelor first before any of the women. While Mr. Bennet eventually does this anyway, it is not before he…