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    Jane Austen’s love life was worse than Oedipus Rex’s. However, that did not hold Austen back. Without a husband, she had more time to write novels. She wrote three novels by the age of twenty five (Spark Note Editors). Jane Austen is now one of the most well-known authors in this world. One of her more known novels is Persuasion. Persuasion is a romantic novel written in the 1800’s. It is about a young woman named Anne Elliot. She is the protagonist in the story of Persuasion. Anne Elliot is a…

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    Jane austen died from tuberculosis when she was forty one years old. Tuberculosis is an infection bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules. Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 and passed away july 18, 1817.Jane was born in Steventon, Hampshire.. She was born a month later than expected. That following year the winter was really harsh, therefore Jane was not baptised till april 5, at the local church with only using her single name Jane. She was known for her six major…

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    "Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen writes about unequal rights of the poor in 1812, and the unequal rights of women. Poor people rarely married rich because that wasn’t the custom back then. In addition to that, women weren’t treated as well as they should have been. Through the characters of Lydia Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, and Mrs. Bennet, Jane Austen shows the different rights and customs of the time period. In the story “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen uses the character Lydia Bennet to…

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    a book written by the Gale Group, Jane Austen was born on December 16th of 1775 in Steventon, England (Gale, 1998). Throughout her childhood, she traveled and moved quite frequently, especially after her father passed and she had to move with only her mother and her siblings. But with tragedy comes a brighter outcome, for example, encouraging Austen to write and focus her energy towards her work. The book also mentions, in the 3rd paragraph, how 14-year-old Austen started her journey as an…

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    Jane Austen’s Representations of Women There is an old saying that literature is an epistemic way to know about any culture. Literature aims to study society and gives a realistic representation of life and people who live in that culture. This study will focus on the interpretation of English culture in the eighteenth century. Each literary work focuses on different issues and has hidden purposes from presenting these issues. As such, the significance of the literature results in…

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    a main driving force behind the actions and decisions of various characters throughout the book. After all, we are following the life of Elizabeth Bennet, who has to constantly navigate her way through troubles often caused by her sisters. You can see the profound impact sisterhood has throughout the book in the way Jane and Elizabeth act as each other 's confidants, the sisterly competition showcased throughout the book, and Jane 's relationship with her own sister Cassandra matched the events…

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    The speech I’m about to present to you will explore the intertextual connections between Pride and Prejudice, a prose fiction novel by Jane Austen published in 1831 and Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, an epistolary novel by Fay Weldon published in 1984. The initial connection is in the title; it becomes obvious that the related text is reliant on Jane Austen’s writing for purpose. Through comparing the two texts it is evident that both authors were influenced by cultural, social…

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    In Jane Austen’s novel, she embraced the attitudes and reasonings behind marriages of the Regency Era into Pride and Prejudice. At the time, women were expected to get married at a very young age compared to the standards of today’s society. It was unusual for any girl to be single past her twenties. Marriage reasoning at the time was much different than today’s society as well. Many women looked for suitors with money, respected family name and a title that is equal or above their own. Also, it…

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    Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is none of these. Pride and Prejudice is a prime example of a satirical book. With humor, irony, and exaggeration being a vast part of Jane Austen’s writing. She gives all the characters their own personalities, with some character’s personalities being overcome by a certain trait, such as pride; That certain trait is excessive. Jane Austen also makes the book a satire, through the interpretations of women in the book. Thus, Jane Austen displays ridicule for…

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    Why does Pride and Prejudice resonate with readers today? Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen created a spectrum of characters that resonates with society today. The novel reflects on a “male and female agenda” that engraved society’s minds. This agenda is what the typical male and female ought to be, which creates a series of molds for both genders. Throughout the novel, we see the Elizabeth Bennet breaking these stereotypes of what a woman “should be.” In which, she has an abnormal sensibility…

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