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...

Long has the concept of female friendship confounded researchers, philosophers, scientists, and novelists alike. Friendships among women often confuse, and even intimidate, cultures built on hierarchies of power that center around men’s logical...

The French philosopher Jacques Rousseau had a great influence upon Romantic writers with his radical yet traditional views on education; where he believed that women’s education was considerably different to that of a man. He famously said; ‘the...

In Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, the concept of gender remains a key aspect throughout both of the narratives in regard to plot development and characterization. Whilst Lady Susan was thought to be...

As a character that is “consigned to eternal narrative silence” (Salih, p336) Sanditon’s Miss Lambe is an object of interest. This interest is furthered by the fact that is “Austen’s only ‘brown’ character” (Salih, p330). Alone, this silence and...