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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice According to Dorothy Van Ghent

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

Chapter XXXIV of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dialogue and Narrative Voice

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Relationships

Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...

Introductions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flander

"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Feminist Analysis

This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...

Archetypes, Pride and Prejudice

This essay presents a discussion of the characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the standpoint of viewing them as ar...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

Chance in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In eight pages this paper analyzes how chance contributes to the characterization and plot of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. ...

Love Affairs in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplussed by what he considers to...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

English Social Class Hierarchy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses the English social class system as it is portrayed in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in con...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and Examples of Literary Christianity

Way" for Ian: forget college, provide for and rescue aging parents from the care of Lucys kids (ages six, three, and baby) and "se...

Chapters Thirty Four through Thirty Seven of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In six pages this paper discusses what human nature lesson heroine Elizabeth Bennet learns in these important chapters of Pride an...

Conflicting Marital Perspectives in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar befo...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Marriage

status. However, her best friend Charlotte Lucas was considerably less romantic and much more practical. In Chapter VI of Pride ...

Literary Comparison of Wallace McRae's 'Reincarnation,' Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

of point of view in the development of these respective works will be illustrated. Exposition is an exploration of the backgroun...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Marriage

in hopes that Jane will be forced to stay over at the estate and therefore seal the deal that she has been looking for her daughte...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

Money in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey

entire romance between Catherine and Henry is based on finances as far as the powers that be are concerned. "Catherine is invited ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Marriage

In five pages this paper discusses Pride and Prejudice in a consideration of how Jane Austen portrays relationship and marriages. ...

Virtue Defined in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...

Nineteenth Century Women in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, she wrote, "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern langua...

Unconventional Women in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma by Jane Austen

pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...

Jane Austen's Works and Character Development

an ideal society of the time. The primary focus of the novel is on romance as it involves two sisters. There is Marianne and El...

Ivan Turgenev and Jane Austen

contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...

Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": The Subversion of Victorian Stereotypes

Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...

Essential Elements of Great Literature and Writers

In five pages great works of literature written by esteemed authors are examined in order to reveal the crucial elements that cont...

Prejudices Women Face in the U.S.

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...