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Pride and Prejudice
Yes, there absolutely is character development in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; in fact, the development of the two protagonists--Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy-- is arguably the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth is clearly a very bright and opinionated woman at the outset of the novel. Though she knows she must marry in order to provide a future for herself, she does not want to accept just any...
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Pride and Prejudice
First, as page numbers vary from edition to edition, and you do not specify which edition you are reading, an educator cannot give page numbers for the edition which you are assigned, but we can...
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Here is another good example of an instance in which Austen uses free indirect discourse to be misleading (it comes from Chapter of Book/Volume 1): Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by...
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Pride and Prejudice
It's hard not to love Elizabeth Bennet, heroine of a novel that Jane Austen jokingly referred to as too light and bright and sparkling. Elizabeth, bright and witty and with beautiful eyes,...
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Just prior to this statement, Mr. Darcy spoke and fairly explicitly explained why he would not wish to join the women in their stroll around the room. He says they likely know their figures appear...
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In many ways, domestic life is at the center of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, as it is a novel concerned with the home and the family. In general, it could be said that domestic life in the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Darcy and Bingley are from a different class than Elizabeth and Jane. Darcy is from the landed gentry, and Bingley is from the successful business class. Elizabeth and Jane, on the other hand, are...
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Pride and Prejudice
The main problem with this question is that Jane Austen is not a Romantic, and Pride and Prejudice is not Wuthering Heights or one of the Gothic novels. In fact, if one reads Northanger Abbey, one...
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Pride and Prejudice
Fortune and status play a major role in shaping many characters' attitudes toward marriage in this text. Consider Lady Catherine de Bourgh's high status and the way it affects her view of...
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Pride and Prejudice
This is a very important question because the notion of class is one of the most important themes in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Often, when people discuss the dynamic of class in the book,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books, but it's also a difficult read, so good for you for improving your English by reading such a challenging book! Here are a couple of...
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Pride and Prejudice
First, one should note that the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, was a woman. The work itself is a novel, not a polemical tract, and thus is not really intended to persuade anyone of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain persuades his readers to listen to their individual consciences and abide by their own moral codes instead of following a hypocritical society. He also encourages his audience to be...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Throughout the novel, Harper Lee portrays the importance of following one's conscience and standing up for what is right. The novel persuades the reader to follow Atticus' morally upright character...
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Pride and Prejudice
Lydia and Wickham's elopement generates much of the drama in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice because their relationship profoundly affects all the principal characters. Lydia's irresponsible...
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is an analysis and criticism of traditional class distinctions because Mr. Darcy, as a member of the upper class, is supposed to marry an upper-class woman, such as Caroline...
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice helps us to see that a society based on structures that privilege money over integrity and status over intelligence is a faulty one. Just because a woman is a lady of great...
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Jane Bennet feels the pressure most strongly. As the eldest daughter, and -- as her mother tells her often -- the most beautiful, her chances of making a good match are probably the best. When...
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Pride and Prejudice
Austen has employed negative and positive characterization to indicate which characters have views with which she disagrees and with whom she agrees. Elizabeth is obviously characterized in a...
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Pride and Prejudice
Certain characters like Mr. Collins, Caroline Bingley, and Mrs. Bennet help to make the novel comical. Mr. Collins is a prize idiot, something that everyone but Mrs. Bennet and Mary seem to...
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Pride and Prejudice
In general, let me suggest that you're not limited to writing about only the details included in the text of the novel. For instance, you might start by describing how the neighborhood families are...
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Pride and Prejudice
Authorial intrusion describes when an author sort of steps away from the story to address the audience directly. It has the effect of making the reader less of an outsider to the story and...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bennet isn't a particularly good anything, including father, husband, or man. While he's not a villain, he is lazy and not nearly as astute as he seems to believe. He is constantly putting...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet wishes for all five of her daughters to marry well. When Mr. Bennet dies, Mr. Collins will inherit almost everything the Bennets own. She wants her daughters to be cared for in...
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Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine's wealth and status entitle her, in her own opinion, to order others around and judge them as she pleases. When she learns of the rumored engagement between her nephew, Mr. Darcy,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Free indirect discourse refers to narration that technically originates with a third-person narrator; however, that speech sounds an awful lot like a particular character in the story. To put it...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Phillips is the name of Mrs Bennett's gossipy sister. Mrs Phillips lives close to the Bennett family, in nearby Meryton, with her husband, Mr Phillips, who is an...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bingley and Jane end the novel quite happily, and they purchase a home in a neighboring county so as to be close to Longbourn, but not too close. Kitty seems happy in the end, as she spends...
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Pride and Prejudice
Dancing is a central metaphor in Pride and Prejudice, as Azar Nafisi points out in her book Reading Lolita in Tehran. In particular, Nafasi teases out the particulars of eighteenth-century (and...
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Pride and Prejudice
Chapter 56 of Pride and Prejudice provides fertile ground for a Marxist reading. Marxist literary critics read literature through the lens of socialism. One of socialism's emphases is class...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth's attitude toward Mr. Darcy during her stay in Hunsford is really no different than it had been when she was at home. She still finds him to be proud and rude and irksome. When she...
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Pride and Prejudice
This novel is famous for three elements: irony, satire and psychological realism. The first line of the novel, that a man with a fortune must be in want of a wife, is a textbook example of irony,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Darcy is a wealthy man who plays a key role in the book Pride and Prejudice. When the book begins, his parents have died and he has a younger sister, Georgiana. He also has an aunt, the...
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Pride and Prejudice
An excellent example of Jane Austen's use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice occurs early in the first chapter (on the first page, in fact, and sourced from eNotes' superb online library): “My...
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Pride and Prejudice
Really, there is not much difference at all between the role of upper-class women in the early nineteenth century and the way Austen writes them. Austen has represented upper-class women as...
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Pride and Prejudice
The best option here is the last one, D. When Elizabeth hears from Darcy's housekeeper, who has known him since his early childhood, that he has never spoken an unkind word to her, Elizabeth...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth is on holiday with her aunt and uncle Gardiner in Derbyshire, the county where Mr. Darcy and his sister reside. Mr. Darcy has asked Elizabeth if he could introduce her to his sister,...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, the best marriages are based on the mutual esteem of the partners. As Mr. Bennet says to Elizabeth when she tells him of her engagement to Mr. Darcy, "I know you could be...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Bennet asks Mr. Bennet to go and introduce himself to the new neighbor, Mr. Bingley, for the express purpose of eventually prevailing upon him to marry one of their daughters. In short, "The...
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Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice, love and attraction are not necessary for a successful marriage in Austen's world. The marriage plot is based on the necessity of marriage for a woman's economic survival,...
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Pride and Prejudice
Lydia, Elizabeth's younger sister, "received an invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the regiment, to accompany her to Brighton." Elizabeth wholeheartedly opposed this trip,...
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Jane thinks that Elizabeth is being too critical of Mr. Collins and Charlotte's upcoming union. She reminds her younger sister that Charlotte has a "'steady, prudent character'" and that Mr....
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride can be both a fault and an asset. Consider how Mr. Darcy's pride, at first, renders him rude and disagreeable, turning against him the woman he grows to love. However, when Elizabeth wounds...
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Pride and Prejudice
Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth is ironic because he really doesn't want to be in love with her. He loves her and proposes marriage to her, as Elizabeth says, "'against [his] will, against [his]...
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth essentially takes responsibility for her own mediocre piano playing by saying she doesn't play the instrument as well as she would like, but believes this is because she does not take the...
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Pride and Prejudice
In this novel, Jane Austen explores the theme of how both pride and prejudice can blind people and lead them to draw the wrong conclusions. While we typically see Darcy as "pride" and Elizabeth as...
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Pride and Prejudice
The "prejudice" part of Pride and Prejudice has to do with false expectations. This is not simply a matter of being "prejudiced" against a person—Austen's theme has more to do with...
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is famous for its use of irony. In irony, the intended or literal meaning of words is different from their actual meaning. Pride and Prejudice's first line is often cited as the...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Collins seems to believe that, with Lady Catherine de Bourgh as his patroness, his position in society is somewhat higher than it actually is. Though he has some education, he is a silly man...