s of many other figures; the haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the fatuous Mr. Collins; the younger Bennet daughter, Lydia; and her lover, Wickham, with whom she scandalously elopes. It is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization an

Jane Austen's major weakness as a writer is related to her greatest strength. Her novels are important because they demonstrate the crude vigorous power of society which is not just of her day, but exists today, although somewhat adapted, and still exerts a powerful influence over social life. The weapon that Jane Austen employs against its suffocating effects is that of irony which is all the more telling for its gentle mockery. At a time when women had no political or financial individuality, she shows how the powerless can influence

de Bourgh, and Lydia Bennet conspicuously lack. What happens in Pride and Prejudice happens to nearly all of us, embarrassment at the foolishness of relatives, the unsteady feelings of falling in love, and the mortify of suddenly realizing a big mistake. The psychological realism of the novel is revealed in the quick recognition we have of how the characters feel, there is a very convincing view of how an intelligent, feeling person changes, the sensitiveness of how people do feel and act; as when Elizabeth and Darcy are angry at each other and how they completely change their minds with the passage of time.

Elizabeth's irony is lighthearted when Jane asks when she began to love Mr. Darcy: "It has been coming on so gradually that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberly" (pg.163). She can be bitterly cutting however in her remark on Darcy's role in separating Bingley and Jane: "Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him." (pg. 202) The author also independent of any character, uses' irony in the narrative parts for some of her sha

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