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Compare and Contrast Elizabeth Bennet with Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel that is centered on the Bennet family and explores their relationships. I would like to talk about two characters of the Bennet family. These characters are Elizabeth Bennet and Mrs. Bennet. Elizabeth Bennet is one of the most well known female characters in English Literature. She is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice and she is the second…

historically is explored in both stories. The similar representation of female characters is shown to exist in both Emma and Hamlet because of the dialogue between characters and actions taken by them outlining the stereotypes and objectification of female characters…

within Jane Austen’s novel ‘Emma’ and Roman Polanski’s film ‘Tess’. Jane Austen and Roman Polanski compel their protagonists through a life of continual process of growth towards mature self-development exploring female gender roles in their respective contexts, hence revealing the codes of women in patriarchal societies. The journey of an individual from immaturity on our judgements and relationships to mature self-knowledge and character…

In her book, Molly Bawn, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford first says this common phrase as we know it today: “It’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (Bloomsbury International, 2014). But is this statement true? How can people decide what is beautiful if they are presented with images depicting what beauty should look like? These perceptions of beauty are created by what is shown to us through edited magazine photos, skinny models, and the sexualization of women which lead to unrealistic…

Goblin Market and its readings Christina Rossetti was born in London, in a family with a long history of incredibly gifted artists. Nowadays she is considered to be one of the most important female poets of the Victorian Era as well as to be somehow a feminist. Rossetti was a brilliant and beautiful woman, and she never got married. However, apart from her work as a poet, she devoted her time to work as a volunteer with former prostitutes in a refuge. Actually her most famous poem ‘Goblin…

Though shy in real life, Jane Austen’s personality and wit shines through her heroines in her novels. Her works provide an inside perspective of her world and her mind. Her last completed work, Persuasion, challenges and also defends the status quo of class structure in early nineteenth-century British society through the character of Anne Elliot. Anne Elliot provides the reader with a sense of pride concerning her birth and rank, which was expected from a woman of her standing at that time.…

In Jane Austen’s book, Persuasion, she eludes on her audience that class within society is of the greatest importance to those in Britain. She uses examples such as Sir Walter Elliott and his favorite daughter Elizabeth and their economic problems or aspirations as evidence toward this. The story starts off with Elliott reading his family ancestry to show nobility and significance of class and goes all the way to not calling a specific person “Gentleman” because of their wealth by the end of…

Harrish Bhela AP English Lit 3/16/18 Pride and Prejudice is a romantic narrative written by Jane Austen which presents Netherfield, England time period differing from our era. Austen uses the romantic life of his two main characters Elizabeth Bennet and an aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy to bring out his ideas perfectly to the readers. The novel is much more than a straightforward romantic book as it is a real critical reflection of the societies today and addresses several other themes apart…

Having arguments with your mother isn’t a rare thing, nor is living far away from her. There are many pieces of literature in which mothers and daughters don’t have the best relationship. In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s book Arranged Marriage there are two stories that stood out to me with this particular theme. In both “The Word Love” and “The Maid Servant’s Story” uneasy relationships between mother and daughter cause distance and pain for both. In the story “The Word Love” the narrator…

In Jane Austen’s Emma, the social world dominates. Each character has their own biased preconceptions which determine how they assess each other. Meanwhile, the reader is encouraged to judge the characters for their missteps and misconceptions. Austen creates irony in the novel by first setting up the characters for criticism of their dogmatic perspectives, and then setting up the reader to realize her own biased analysis of the characters. Austen accomplishes this effect through both the plot…