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Pride And Prejudice Analysis
Pride And Prejudice Analysis
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Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the main characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, hate each other upon their first meeting but by the end of the novel are happily married. Elizabeth Bennet, protagonist, is developed through her interactions with antithetical characters: sisters and mother. Mr. Darcy is developed through events in the novel, his friends, and the Bennet family. Societies view creates irony and further contrasts which help to bring the novel to its climatic ending.
Jane Austen is a very reclusive writer. Who is known for covering up her work if interrupted, because she did not want anyone to know she was a novelist. She also did not want anyone to see her work until it was completed (“Jane” 232). Jane Austen never married, believed by historians to be because of a broken heart, yet her books are romance novels. Her inspiration for her novels like Pride and Prejudice came from everyday life. She wrote in the family sitting room while life happened around her; thus, her novels do not depict fantasy or utopian family but an everyday family. Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty- one, but struggled to find a publisher. Because it was one of the first novels to deal with an entire family (Anderson 233), it was sixteen years before it was published. Her family helped her edit and refine Pride and Prejudice; they would read it aloud every weeknight and then read part of another book. Through the other books she saw how to improve her own writings such as adding “a ‘said he’ or a ‘said she’ would sometimes make the Dialogue more immediately clear” (Copeland 49-50). A major change she made to the book was the title, which was originally First Impressions. First Impressions underwent revi...
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