... type of cunning that she will exercise throughout the novel. Although Lucy is disingenuous with everyone, her manipulation of Robert Ferrars is the most striking example of her shrewdness. Following Mrs. Ferrars' disinheritance of Edward after the revelation of their secret engagement, Lucy must face the prospect of marriage to a man with little money and even fewer prospects. Despite this ... their engagement, he considers his promise to her as irrevocable. He carries on with the engagement despite his mother's assurance that his future holds little more than a life of poverty. Mrs. Fer...

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... countryside of England set probably in 1790s' (the book may have been set during 1810's at its time of publication, but many critiques argue otherwise)3 Mrs. Bennet, a rudimentary and base woman, living a robust life with five daughters, has only one concern- the marriage of her daughters. Mr. Bennet ... time) and satire is his preferred way of confronting with the reality. Austen makes a point to show the readers the difference between Mr. & Mrs. Bennet- the product of a common Augustan marriage. "Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed ... ...

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... he actually danced with her twice; and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time!? (Page 15) In contrast, Mrs Bennett's first impression of Mr Darcy was that he is cold, abrupt, and proud. This is established because of his manner and behaviour. The narrator ... describes Darcy's behaviour in chapter 1; ?Mr Darcy danced only once with Mrs Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady and spent the rest of the evening walking about the room speaking ... the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he wo...

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... at heart. Because of the way that other characters in the novel speak about Emma, it is easy to see how the author truly feels. Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley are two very influential characters in this novel and the reader is persuaded to like Emma by observing their feelings for her ... knows that she is an extremely intelligent girl, and he does not want her to limit herself by being friends with a girl as nave as Harriet. Mrs. Weston admits that Emma is not perfect, but she still disagrees with Mr. Knightley. She sees that this friendship is making Emma happy, because without it ... ...

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... . She is always critical of characters who break the rules and pry into family affairs. She presents them in the garb of comic roles. For example Mrs Jennings and Lady Catherine. Whereas Sir John and Mrs Collins represent the other side of the coin as they adhere to socially acceptable behavior and good manners to a ridiculous extent. By displaying the two extremes ... in "Pride and Prejudice", and Elinor in "Sense and Sensibility". All kinds of matrimonial relationships are discussed to see the different dimensions of marriage. In "Pride and Prejudice" Mr and Mrs Benette, Charlotte and ...

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... marrying made love to be considered irrelevant. The importance of marriage extended beyond the couple and had a great impact on the entire family. Mrs Bennet was obsessive with marrying off her daughters. The business of her life was to get her daughters married. Her daughters finding husbands was ... of this would ensure her financial security, it was impossible for Elizabeth to accept because she did not love Mr Collins. Also, when Mrs Gardiner warns her of becoming attached to Wickham due to his poor financial circumstances, Elizabeth can make no promises because her reason for marryin...

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... relationships of other characters to contrast the relationship of Darcy and Elizabeth. The author uses the relationships of Charlotte and Mr. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and Wickham and Lydia to differentiate against Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship. The worst relationship throughout the novel is the relationship of Wickham and Lydia ... be in love with Charlotte Lucas, because less than a week ago he claimed to love Elizabeth. Although Austen values getting married for love, Mrs. Lucas marries Mr. Collins to attain financial and social security. She is felt pressured by society to ...

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... tend to refer to their spouse by their first names and/or pet names. However, during the Regency a husband and wife address each other as Mr. and Mrs.. Jane Austen is pointing out that during this period the rules made it so even a married couple didn't show each other affection. When referring to a person ... using proper titles, how close can one expect them to be? For an illustration of this, one can look to the Palmers. Mr. Palmer totally disregards anything Mrs. Palmer asks or says to him, "Mr. Palmer made her no answer and did not even raise his eyes from the newspaper" (94). If ...

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... wife easily persuades him that they should use the money for their son. It is he, John, and his family that move into Norland estate. Mrs. Dashwood's cousin, John, saves the Dashwoods from further humiliation. He offers them a new home, Barton Cottage, on his estate in Devonshire. Before ... to touch on often. A number of characters in the novel embody this trait to varying degrees; John and Fanny, Lady Middleton, the Steele girls, Mrs. Ferrars, and Robert, among others, tend to display hypocritical, self-serving flattery, vanity, and professing opinions they do not believe in for self-...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would turn him down and is quite astonished when she does (Wright 108). Elizabeth travels the northern countryside with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. Traveling in northern England during the summer was quite popular during the time period in which the novel was written, 1790-1800 (British Writers ... servant of Mr. Darcy would love him so much (Austen 157). Her ideas of Mr. Darcy would have him be a mean-spirited and distant with his staff. Mrs. Reynolds, Mr. Darcy's housekeeper, directly contradicts Elizabeth's pre-conceived ideas when she says, "I have never had a cross w...

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... rules and requirements for the wealthier class; thus, women could not buy property, have jobs, marry whomever they choose, etcetera. Even when meeting new people, Mrs. Bennet and her daughters could not go without Mr. Bennet, as Mrs. Bennet explains, "It will be no use to us; if twenty [people] should come, since you will not visit them." (Austen 4). Even ... , and security. Although the Bennet women have the same last name as the owner of their estate, it is given to a distant male cousin. As Austen points out, "... and [Mrs. Bennet] was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to ...

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... opening paragraph the reader is given the impression of what the two main themes could possibly be and also the significance money may hold over love. Mrs. Bennet plays a major link between love and money, this is particularly evident when her purpose is set out within the opening chapter as the ... novel, "The business of her life was to get her daughters married". (P5) But Mrs. Bennet's intentions for who her daughters may marry where to be someone of a higher social class, "A single man of large fortune; four or five ... thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls". (P4) This ex...

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... is a bit naive because of her good nature, especially when it comes to recognizing the wickedness of others. This leaves her vulnerable to injury from insincere friends like Caroline Bingley. Mrs. Bennet Mrs. Bennet is a foolish woman. She doesn't have any sense of propriety and neglects to provide her daughters with a proper education. Instead, she remains concerned solely with securing them profitable ... alike. Mr. Bennet An intelligent man, Mr. Bennet displays an unfortunate disinterest in most of his family, besides Elizabeth. He seems weary after spending many decades married to t...

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... a woman who struggles to come to grips with how her own pride prejudiced her. When Charles Bingley, a rich single man, moves to the neighborhood, residents are thrilled. Especially thrilled is Mrs. Bennet, who hopes to marry one of her five daughters to him. When the Bennet daughters meet him at a local ball, they are impressed by his outgoing personality and friendly ... seem to signify one thing and are later revealed to signify something else. Dialogue also plays an important role in the novel. The novel opens with a talk between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. The pieces of dialogue are consis...

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After the affair with Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet is still stuck with five unmarried daughters. Jane is still getting aquatinted with Mr. Bingley, a rich suitor, Elizabeth still has no prospects, and two her ... When Darcy returns to Netherfield with Bingley she almost does not know how to act now that she knows the truth. Jane and Bingley resume their relationship once again. Mrs. Bennet says she wants nothing to do with him, but once she hears he wants to see Jane, she quickly changes her mind. Even worse, Darcy becomes a ... target of Mrs. Bennet's rude, piercing comments at the dinner table...

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... marry. Edward is finally free to propose. Not long after that proposal Marianne and Colonel Brandon become engaged. In Pride and Prejudice, the Bennet family has five unmarried girls, and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to marry them off. After some time Mr. Darcy becomes increasingly more attracted to Elizabeth. When Elizabeth and Jane return home they find Mr. Collins there, he ... the evident with the marriage of Lydia to Wickham. Another reason the reader is lead to believe that is a top priority is because of the lack of love shown towards Mrs. Bennet by Mr. Bennet. In one way or another ...

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... guided tour of his Pemberley estate. As she is guided around the estate in wonder, Elizabeth is enlightened upon many areas of Darcy's life through his house-servant Mrs. Reynolds, who when told she was lucky to have such a master, answers, "Yes, Sir, I know I am. If I was to go through ... 238-239). Immediately after hearing this, the splendors of Pemberley mixed with this characterization of Darcy together greatly adapt Elizabeth's perception of Darcy. Also, Mrs. Reynolds" description of Darcy holds true to Austen's characteristics of a good husband in that he is kind, generous and ador...

• Word Count: 1964
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... because of his wealth and his single status. He soon becomes a "target" for women that are looking for a perfect husband. The reaction of Mrs. Bennet's urge desire to know Mr. Bingley and hope to wed her daughter to this mysterious gentleman, showed us how social status and wealth ... actual personality "A single man of large fortune what a fine thing for out girls." (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Page 5). Despite the fact that Mrs. Bennet hardly knows anything about Mr. Bingley but she is willing to arrange the marriage just to assure her daughter's social statues and financial stabi...

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... brings forth her emotional outbursts. Even the friendly Bessie is limited both in understanding and sympathy. John Reed bullies Jane physically. Mrs. Reed exercises her tyrannical authority over her. Jane's situation and character drive her to lonely introspection. "You are passionate, Jane, that you must allow ... ,"" Mrs. Reed points out. Lowood is also a place of severe cold. It is a place where Jane learns, at the fireside of Miss Temple ... to curb her emotions. Inspired by Helen Burns and her saintliness, Jane learns to endure her life at Lowood with patience. Mr. Brocklehurst, mis...

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The first two chapters of the novel illustrate Jane's troubled beginnings as a young girl trapped in Gateshead with Mrs Reed-her uncle's widow, and her three children - Eliza, Georgiana and John. Charlotte Bronte, the author of the novel, uses a wide choice of language features to create sympathy for Jane ... in the chapter, Jane is being punished for starting a fight with John and is being dragged into the Red Room by Mrs Reed. This is obviously a terrible penalty to inflict upon a little girl who is clearly desperate and very afraid, however, Mrs Reed has no sympathy for her. " I resisted ...

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... on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl, Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick's History of British Birds. Jane's aunt, Mrs Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana, and the bullying John. John Reed goes looking for Jane and finds her sitting at the window seat ... predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort. I don't very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me "Rat! Rat!" and bellowed out aloud- (Bronte, p5). Mrs. Reed holds Jane responsible for the scuffle and ...

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... , the society of Emma places no importance on self-image, as the only description we receive of Emma is that she is "handsome, clever, rich" but they do value etiquette. Mrs Elton lacks etiquette, even though she is somewhat attractive and accomplished, her "self importance, presuming, familiar, ignorance, and ill bred" nature counteract her good qualities and is disliked by the ... Harriet, she would be very unfortunate if she did not marry Robert Martin, as her education would not have allowed her to even become a governess. The education she attained at Mrs Goddard's school is where "...

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... up to their own and others expectations. Jane, for example, reasons as a child, "I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child -though equally dependent and friendless - Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently" (Brontë, 643). Jane does not follow the idea of how a girl should be and she often gets punished for it ... , Anne would have seemed to be an outspoken woman. Also, Jane repeatedly regrets her bluntness as shown on page 659 in Jane Eyre. Jane have just declared her hatred towards Mrs. Reed when she states, "silence an...

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... that the novel is not feminist because the goal of all the women in the novel is to get married. To support this argument they may present the quote of Mrs. Bennet from chapter one of the novel, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife"" (Austen 1) These arguments, which ... the novel. The readers witness the similarity in the traits of Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet from the very start of the novel, such as during chapter two when Elizabeth counters Mrs. Bennet's need to be formally introduced to Bingley by saying they ...

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... and kind man, though rather weak willed. Darcy, Elizabeth's partner, is a good, interesting and very strong willed man, making this the perfect, fairy-tale marriage. Pride and Prejudice begins with Mrs Bennet, the mother of Jane and Elizabeth talking about how excellent it would be if one of them were to marry the most eligible bachelor in the area. This seems ... drawn towards her. Elizabeth is also a very beautiful woman, but not to the same extent as Jane, her mother says she is not half so handsome as Jane, and although Mrs Bennet is not the trustworthiest character it is an indicat...

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• Grade Level: High School