Emma Thompson

Generations of scholars and casual readers alike love the romance, comedy, and drama in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Austen’s use of letters in particular demonstrates a masterful storytelling technique, and the epistolary nature of the novel ends up being a device to further the plot and draw the novel to it’s resolution, particularly in the latter half. Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth and her reaction to it marks a pivotal change in Elizabeth’s opinion of Darcy. More importantly, however,…

Natalie C. Parker is the writer of the Beware the Wild series of novels that have become some of the most popular novels in the Southern Gothic subgenre. She is also the founder of the annual workshops and retreats organized for established and aspiring writers called Madcap Retreats. She was raise in a Navy family and hence having a life full of adventure was something as commonplace as having fairy tales read to you. She attended the University of Southern Mississippi from where she graduated…

the Novel Emma by Jane Austen, Emma and Jane both are seen as beautiful and knowledgeable, accomplished. However, they both grew up and have accustomed to the different lives they have. In Emma’s first encounter with Jane, she showed no sign of interest in getting to know her or being friendly. Comparing both these characters, Emma is shown less likeable in comparison to Jane Fairfax. Because Jane is a self-made woman, she is who she is because she persevered and was determined. Emma grew up…

Jane Austen’s is an influential, powerful writer and her unique style is one that is recognizable. Her two comedy of manners novels, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, reveal Austen’s personal views and opinions of the mid eighteenth century society while she makes the reader laugh at the witty truths in her writing. The styles of the novels reflect one another through the use of irony, characterization and theme. Jane Austen uses irony to get her point across in a comedic manner. The opening…

Calixta, the protagonist of Kate Chopin’s short stories entitled At the Cadian Ball and The Storm, is a young woman that lives her life according to what society believes is right. She comes from a lower-class family, but is also described as a beautiful woman and a “Spanish vixen” (216). Calixta has strong feelings for a “handsome young planter”, but those feelings are overshadowed by a “big, brown, good-natured man” that society believes she should be with because they are in the same class…

Rhetorical Strategies Used in E. B. Browning Letter In her letter to the French Emperor Napoleon III, Elizabeth Barrett Browning formulates a very convincing argument by the use of her rhetorical devices such as a pathos appeal to her subject, alliteration; a repetition of words, imperative sentences, asyndeton, and similes as methods of persuasion in order to convince Napoleon to pardon Victor Hugo. Browning attempts to undermine her own authority and lack of title, as a means to show…

The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen could not have been named better. This is because of the personalities that result in the actions of the two main characters, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. Elizabeth Bennett, or Lizzie, is one of the five Bennett daughters, but is nothing like her other sisters. She completely refutes society’s ideas about a woman’s purpose and marriage. This often leads to her having more pride than the average woman of the Regency Period. Elizabeth does…

Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice consists of many contrasting characters, which are foils of each other. For example, Jane is characterized as docile and reserved, never finding faults in others, while Elizabeth is initially portrayed as saturated with prejudice. Elizabeth does later overcome her initial prejudice after several discoveries. To relate Elizabeth's character development to Mary Wollstonecraft’s beliefs on the ideal women as she described in her classic feminist text The…

Composers often transform texts to adapt them in a way considered to be more suitable for a desired audience and to convey new meaning. Jane Austen’s 1815 novel, Emma, has been transformed in Amy Heckerling’s 1995 film, Clueless for a modern Western teenage audience. Emma and Clueless both stand as reflections of their time; that of Regency England and postmodern America respectively. While the general plot line remains, Heckerling has adapted the refined country setting of Highbury, England to…

The 72rd volume of “The Explicator”, a renowned source for literary criticism in the United Kingdom was published in the summer 2014. One of the most remarkable contributions, within the publication, titled “Caught in the act of greatness”, deeply analyzes Jane Austen’s renowned “Pride and prejudice”. The analysis takes an unconventional approach by strictly focusing on the syntax and writing style of the work in order to truly credit the genius of Jane Austen. However it is because of this…