... , with all due respect to Jane Austen for her copyright (perhaps!), I now wish to begin my story from my pride of being an angel, prejudice against me and my ultimate phoenix-like rise from the ashes. To expand on the above highly compressed and encapsulated summary of this particular incident, a flashback of about ten months or so is necessary, to the month of March ... . There are court-jesters in every family, I was not one of them. I was the family's court-technical-gadget-handler-fiddler-all-in-one, and I have a very good (or perhaps bad, as seen from viewpoint) reputation at that. I...

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... Jane Austen This opening line of Pride and Prejudice could well describe the whole point of her book. With this single short statement, Jane Austen declares a couple of things essential to her novel. She declares one of her major themes: Money and Marriage. She establishes the fact that ... everyone is in the search for someone to marry; someone that reaches his or her standards economically and socially. It is the pursuit of a perfect husband or wife. The central theme of Pride and Prejudice ... is based on the concerns of people in early nineteenth-century country society. One of the...

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... of things in the Bennet household, mainly at the expense of his wife. Within the book Pride and Prejudice, there are three prime examples of Jane Austen's use of irony with Mr. Bennet, and these examples are his marriage to Mrs. Bennet, his indulgence of Lydia and the results thereof, and his failure to provide a secure financial future for his daughters. In his younger years, Mr ... , as Jane Austen puts it, "Her father captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humor, which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind...

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