... Darcy and Elizabeth's realisation of a mutual and tender love for one another can be seen to imply that Austen views love as something independent of these social forces. Austen uses the character of Charlotte Lucas, who marries Mr. Collins for his money, to demonstrate that the heart does not always dictate marriage. With the central characters, Austen suggests that true love is a force ... sperate from society, and Love can conquer all' in the most difficult of times. Reputation Pride and Prejudice shows a ... helps to win her heart. The happy ending of Pride & Prejudice is certainly...

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... . She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement, and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her, immediately followed. He spoke well, but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority "of its ... being a degradation "of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were ... trait these two novels share. Celie, through her letters to God, is the narrator of The Color Purple. She is the pr...

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... , is pleased that Bingley remembers the exact day he last saw Jane, the 26th of November - so we can actually work out that about three months have passed since her angry refusal of Darcy's proposal. Thus Elizabeth's change of heart is not as sudden as it seems, for Austen has condensed the long period of May and June intervening between Elizabeth's trips to Hunsford and ... Pemberly. The effect of this condensing of ... time, however, is to emphasize the difference between her previous and current views of the master of Pemberly. III.ix-xii Commentary After Elizabeth ... ...

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