... lived in (O"Shaughnessy & Stadler 189). A society in which walking out for a minor shopping excursion was a major highlight. She aims to propose the values of the English society during the early nineteenth century. However, although she reflects these values she makes it clear that she does not always agree with them as demonstrated through her subtle satire. Values are reflected in changing contexts ... time they change. Some of the values reflected in Emma are marriage, manners, education and wealth. Throughout her novel, Austen shows various traits that her society valued. In the ea...

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... "to deserve the word" (39). Elizabeth Bennet's reply of "I never saw such a woman" highlights Austen's concern with the notion of the ideal woman within her nineteenth-century English context. Commonly regarded as a realist writer in her accurate portrayal of everyday, Regency era life, Austen was moreover "one of the great formative and founding influences on how ... Austen's satirical approach to the romance genre critiques "established forms and the attractive men who embody them."24 In this sense, Elizabeth's use of irony as a defence against nineteenth-century society replicates th...

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... of the character. This is the influence of Bollywood, but it also speaks to the broader difference between the two stories, one is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, where women were very repressed and controlled, while the other is set in contemporary India where women are still treated in this way, but they have also been exposed to ... 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because it seeks to present the story, which was originally intended to be for an early nineteenth century audience, to a mass contemporary audience. This pos...

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... faced with a similar threat. Consequently, there became a huge emphasis placed upon the importance of property and the need for good manners and morals' among the propertied class of late eighteenth century England. For Austen, was the belief that the fate of the landed classes depended on their ability to preserve the system of manners which buttressed their moral authority. Given that ... is this: when manners are the only signs that can be "safely judged by- they are, at the same time, the only signs that cannot be safely judged by. The nineteenth century generally perceived Austen's...

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... captivating." The interactions of various characters are a distinct feature of Pride and Prejudice, and give insight not only into individual characters, but also into the social customs of the early Nineteenth Century. This theme is central to Pride and Prejudice and the object of some scorn from Jane Austen. In showing Elizabeth's reaction to Charlotte Lucas marrying Mr Collins for financial security ... ...

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... were composed are very dissimilar from one another. Emma was written by Jane Austen in 1815, in a society where marriage and social standing were of great consequence. In the early nineteenth century, a woman married, above all, for financial security and social acceptability. Matrimony provided a woman with a higher social rank than a spinster and the most important factor in marriage was the social standing ... ...

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