Pride and Prejudice is a novel that applies to many literary audiences of many centuries. This novel, in many ways, is a social commentary about manners. The emotion “pride” is one of the largest themes in this nineteenth-century novel. Austen...

Interpretations of literature will always fluctuate between authors, critics, and readers alike. Literature is a looking glass that reflects many different images, thoughts, and messages for the reader. The beauty of looking into this mirror is...

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen demonstrates a flexibility of genre in which realism and romanticism are balanced through the novel’s socioeconomic accuracy and the characterization of Mr. Darcy, along with Elizabeth Bennet’s idealistic...

With her signature insight, Jane Austen delves into the depths of the words which comprise of the title of the novel Pride and Prejudice. Each of the characters in the novel displays either pride or prejudice or both, in one way or another....

Jane, the eldest Bennet sister who so many adore, is revealed to readers in a different way than the other main characters. Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen typically reveals her characters’ personalities through their speech,...

Throughout the interactions between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses eye contact as a symbol for the literal blindness each has for the other regarding their true situation. This blindness regarding situational reality...

Christina Rossetti wrote “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.” Following the century of...

‘A blush overspread Anne’s cheeks. She could say nothing.’ (JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion)

‘There’s a blush for won’t, and a blush for shan’t— And a blush for having done it. There’s a blush for thought, and a blush for naught, And a blush for just...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a novel about characters overcoming hardships that are necessary for their happiness. Before Jane Austen decided on the final title, she chose the title First Impressions, which acknowledges that the main...

Literary movements of the early nineteenth century were undeniably, at least to some extent, defined by a backdrop of wartime context. It was a time period not only caught up in the midst of the Napoleonic War, but also still suffering from the...

Marriage is at the heart of every Jane Austen novel, or, at the very least, at the end of them, as every one of Austen’s heroines find themselves at ‘The End’ with a husband, a fortune and lifelong happiness. In reality, however, women often had...

Jane Austen’s social novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) from the patriarchal regency England employs free indirect speech to examine the notion that moral development can only be prompted by individual interactions and that individual felicity can...

The comparative study of texts and contexts demonstrates that composers write to reflect prevalent values and issues within their own society. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice exhibit connections in terms of the...

One may read between the lines to conclude the Bennets’ marriage in Pride and Prejudice was an act of convenience, lacking love. As a result of this incompatibility, their relationship is fraught with flaws. In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...

Profuse similarities between texts are often exposed by examining the way that authors react to their surrounding society. This notion is regularly expressed between Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’, (1813) and Fay Weldon’s text, ‘Letters...

In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the major external obstacle faced by Hermia and Lysander appears in the form of Hermia’s father, Egeus, who intends for his daughter to marry another man, Demetrius. Throughout the play, Shakespeare...

Lydia Bennet is a childish, oblivious, uncontrolled, impulsive, naïve character, but there is more to her than meets the eye. Rather, her specific character traits can be accounted for by the ways in which she has been brought up. But how this is...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the most iconic narratives of the marriage plot. There is a variety of discourse which surrounds the novel. Over the course of the text readers are introduced to many different characters, most of which...

Both Maurice by E.M Forster and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen are the stories of revolutionary love, capable of inspiring moral improvement and moral compromise within relationships. Specifically, it is the stories of Maurice and Alec and...

Although critics describe Bride and Prejudice as “a Bollywood-style version of Jane Austen’s novel” (Brockes, 2004), the film is much more than Pride and Prejudice “transplanted…to India” (Gritten, 2004). If the adaptation was simply a transplant...

The character of an individual is demonstrated by the way they handle power Generally, power is referred to the possession/ ability of control or influence over others, which is, in fact, subject to one’s characteristics. This assumption is both...

As a novel of manner, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ perfectly encapsulated the paradoxically frivolous yet ruthless zeitgeist of Regency England. Austen periodically manipulates the aura of gossip and secrecy that pervades the novel not only to...

"I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her suckling child". Jane Austen wrote these words about her novel, Sense and Sensibility, in a letter to her sister Cassandra in 1811. Such a maternal feeling in Austen is interesting to note,...

Female speech in Jane Austen's novels is heavily dictated by the whims of her male characters, and although "[f]emale speech is never entirely repressed in Austen's fiction, [it] is dictated so as to mirror or otherwise reassure masculine desire"...