Francis Austen

It was once said by an English novelist, Jane Austen: “A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself”. Some might think this is true, and others might think education is the road to life. Today’s student do not learn to appreciate the beauty of language, and instead find learning about others’ lives and applying them to their own rather more compelling. Reading fiction allows readers to compare their experiences with the experiences of characters to make a point.…

Amy Heckerling portrays Jane Austen 's novel Emma by directing Clueless, a film that reflects the Regency England into the 20th century world. Although Heckerling updates her audiences from the small town of Highbury into Beverly Hill, she closely imitates the plot and characterization. From the beginning of the novel and film, the similarities between the two heroines are obvious. Both Emma Woodhouse and Cher are spoiled, high class teenagers whose superficial and pretentious attitude throws…

Throughout history women have been looked at as the weaker gender of the two. Males are the breadwinners while females are meant to sit pretty and be entertainment at private get togethers. In the book Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen shows how women have been treated not only in her time period but in ours. She shows that women in society are dehumanized while men are put on a pedestal. Their purpose is for entertaining, for breeding the heirs, and for making the men in their life happy. Women…

Can a prideful and judgmental person cause a major effect upon their own self? It is considered natural among many people to be conceited or to have a critical point of view of someone without getting to know them better. These two characteristics can bring consequences which can make people avoid them based on their attitude, which can result in not finding their true friend or in this case love. In Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy have very set ideas…

Being a satirical novel, Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice is filled with scenes depicting the social norms and standards of the 19th century and how ridiculous some of them were, the majority prodding at the conditions of their social class structure or genders. Once scene critiquing both of these aspects is Mr Collins ' proposal to Elizabeth. Analyzing the standards of women only marrying for superficial purposes, women being told that they 're worth relied on them being married to men in…

Above all else, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility teaches us that nothing is sacrosanct. With such a heavy emphasis on the importance of marriage for young women of the eighteenth century, the novel suggests that there is an unspoken agreement that their romantic relationships are open to speculation and scrutiny among family and friends due to an interest in having a say in such marriages. Especially in the romantic relationships between Marianne and Willoughby, Elinor and Edward, and Lucy…

In Emma Austen uses narrative perspective to shape the reader 's experience and interactions with the novel. Although most of the novel is narrated from Emma 's point of view, Mr. Knightley perspective is presented to the reader through dialogue and free indirect discourse. Though we the reader get other view points besides that of Emma 's and Mr. Knightley 's it is usually that of an omniscient narrator. The narrator while critical of Emma is not the novel 's voice of reason though that…

Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Virginia Woolf were three female writers who published their opinions on the societal view of women 's rights during the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s. Respectively, a few of their most famed pieces were A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Pride and Prejudice, and A Room Of One 's Own. Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Women contains her personal opinions about women 's rights directed to a politically active revered located nearby herself.…

Elizabeth running away, flaunting her independence, Jane Austen’s message would be lost. The original audience of the novel, mostly upper class women, would view Elizabeth’s actions as foolish and without reward. Through Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage, Austen argues that a woman can go against societal norms and still…

Jane Bennet is a very calm and put together woman that doesn’t find ill in the world. Her mother almost prefers her because of her appearance. It is Jane that catches the eye of Mr.Bingley who is a well earning man that Mrs. Bingley would be ecstatic to see take her daughters hand. The length that go into setting this marriage up are extreme as far as Mrs. Bennet sending her daughter into a coming storm so she will have to stay in Mr. Bingley’s estate. As desperate as this sounds it is not…