Edmund Bertram

Jane Austen, most known for her novel Pride and Prejudice, is regarded in today’s literature as a classic novelist. She is famous for her heroine focused plots and themes that reflected the social struggles that she faced while she was alive. Born on the 16th day of December in 1775, Jane Austen was the 7th child of 8. She grew up in Hampshire along with her 6 brothers and older sister. Her father, George Austen, was a reverend for their town church. Jane and her sister, Cassandra, received a…

in the way Fanny speaks to Edmund is clear as Fanny calls Edmund a “friend” when saying, “You truly are the most understanding friend”, other than using flirtation language that is expected from someone who is in love with the person they are communicating with. On the other hand, the adjective “most” suggests that Edmund will always be a priority to Fanny. Fanny goes from being hopeful of the potential…

In her essay Jane Austen and John Keats: Negative capability, Romance and Reality, Beth Lau connects the two writers previously not commonly associated. Most comparisons of Austen and Romantic poets are with Wordsworth and Byron, as it is known she read their works. Alas, even without her reading works of John Keats, parallels between ideas in their works can be made (Lau, 2006). The fact remains that concepts of Romantic period, canon and ideology are based on the assumption of shared…