... we should have. Austen gives great examples of how society controlled behavior in the 18th century through Sir Walter and Elizabeth. Both of them are consumed by their position and their looks. "Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of baronetcy" (Persuasion 6). However, Anne, though ... liked by everyone, was " nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way; --she was only Anne" (7). Anne was considered a "nobody" because she was not...

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