Pemberley

“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John…

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by the English author Jane Austen. It was first published in 1813 and is thought to be one of the most popular novels in English literature. The story focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the Bennet family, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, her love interest. Following the plot, the reader can see how these two manage to overcome all the obstacles and achieve romantic happiness. An interesting – but not very known- fact about the book is that it was…

A Comparison of Mr. Rochester’s and St. John Rivers’ relationships towards Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre provides two masculine characters who show an interest in taking Jane to wife. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers are the two men in Jane Eyre’s life when it comes to courtship and marriage. Both are interesting and different in their approach. In the process of meeting and getting to know the both men, Jane goes through a mental process of getting to know herself and her…

“Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

It is important for a young woman, especially one of Lydia's uncertain future, to marry decently; in the Bennet household, marriage is held as the uttermost goal by the lady of the house, if not her husband. And Mr. Bennet, if he has any true qualms about Lydia's behavior, does nothing to stop it. When Elizabeth confronts him later in the novel about his cultivation of Lydia's alleged frivolity by allowing her to go to Brighton, Mr. Bennet brushes her concerns off by saying, "Lydia will never be…

Elizabeth Bennet, an at first young and vulnerable woman, is soon perceived to be the dire opposite of vulnerable, as her characteristics materialize throughout the novel. She is first revealed to be uncommonly modest regarding her personality, and later displays bravery as she is true to her personality, even when doing so may lead to criticism from the women surrounding her. Criticism may also come from her refusal to conform to the ideas of marriage, a decision validated by denying a proposal…

True love never lies, and it never fails. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the Bennet family and Mrs. Bennet’s quest to get her 5 daughters married. The opening chapter begins with Mrs. Bennet telling her daughters about Mr. Bingley, a new upper class and wealthy neighbor. Mr. Bennet, the polar opposite of his wife, refuses to follow the social norm of going to meet the bachelor first before any of the women. While Mr. Bennet eventually does this anyway, it is not before he…

Villains are always seen as horrifying, eerie creatures, however that is not always accurate. In regards to literature, a villain is anybody that prevents the protagonist from achieving what they need or want. The book Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen in 1813, has many villains appear within the plot that are not necessarily depicted as scary. Pride and Prejudice is about a high societal gentleman named Mr. Darcy that falls in love with a woman named Elizabeth whose family is of a…

Both The Importance of Being Earnest and A Midsummer's Night Dream use the dramatic convention of forbidden love through most of the play. With the characters having to overcome the wishes of their parents and the forbidden love, to achieve what they want this was normally done through trickery or luck. For instance, in A Midsummer's Night Dream, Egeus bans the relationship between Hermia and Demetrius and is instead supportive of the relationship between Hermia and Lysander. In The Importance…

In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, woman of the gentry class are trapped in a society where appearance and status reign and the only possibility of achieving happiness is through marriage to a like-minded individual. The aspects of women’s lives were limited to gossiping, home-making, mingling and child-rearing. The only possibility for happiness lied in the prospect of marrying out of love and not out of obligation. The novel offers a spectrum of perspectives, both male and female, from…