Jane Austen Essays

On first impressions of the novel, my own prejudices clouded my judgement of the book and of what it might have consisted. Living in the 21st Century it is somewhat difficult to imagine anything remotely similar, interesting or slightly scandalous happening in a period in which rich men marry apparently …

‘Pride & Prejudice’ was written in the 18th century by a new author called Jane Austen. Her book can help us have a realistic insight to the social life of her time. It is generated around the Bennet household, a family who live in Meryton. The main theme narrows down …

Compare and contrast their proposals of marriage. Mr Collins is a clergyman who works for his patroness Lady Catherine de bourgh and who proposed to Elizabeth Bennet. The main reason why he wished to marry was to please Lady Catherine. The reasons for Mr Collins choice of one of the …

“Pride and Prejudice” was called “First Impressions” before it was finally published in 1813 under the title “Pride and Prejudice”. The novel was written in the early 19th century at a time when social class and status determined a person’s lifestyle and marriage partner. Marriage played the most important part …

Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 during the Regency period. From a woman’s point of view, marriage was seen as “the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune”. Marriage was seen as the only way of securing a home and a decent living. If a woman …

Jane Austen writing tends to be witty and romantic. Though her name never appeared on her published books during her life, Austin’s works rose to fame after her death in 1817. In fact, her popular books, such as Pride and Prejudice, have never gone out of print. She is now …

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist, who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life and whose works have set her among the most widely read writes in English Literature. Daughter of a Church rector, she lived most of her …

It is a mistake to see Austen as either a moralist or a realist? No, I think these are wholly appropriate and instructive ways of reading her work, as long as we keep in mind the fact that they do not exhaust the possibilities of meaning generated by a text …

The passages taken from Jane Austen’s and Charles Dickens’ novels show differences in marriage proposals. The type of rhetoric used by each man causes different effects . In the first excerpt taken from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the man reasons that he must set an example for all others …