The central plot of her novels:An eligible young man comes into a village and eventually secures the most suitable wife
• The central plot of her novels: An eligible young man comes into a village and eventually secures the most suitable wife
Austen reveals the historically specific gender issues of her time,particularly the patriarchal conditions of her historical moment and the way romantic conventions coded for power and wealth
• Austen reveals the historically specific gender issues of her time, particularly the patriarchal conditions of her historical moment and the way romantic conventions coded for power and wealth
By exploring the motive of loving and marrying for money and social position,Austen reveals her sharp insight into the very essence of the aristocratic bourgeois English society of her time- ---the primary importance of cash nexus. There is also the ever-present expose of the egotism and hypocrisy and other vices of the respectable English people
• By exploring the motive of loving and marrying for money and social position, Austen reveals her sharp insight into the very essence of the aristocratic bourgeois English society of her time- ---the primary importance of cash nexus. • There is also the ever-present expose of the egotism and hypocrisy and other vices of the respectable English people
Her young female characters,in search of the best prospect for marriage,end up marrying a country clergyman or a landed gentleman.The choices,the options are indicative:What Austen emphasizes is community in microcosm,the search for order in a world beset by chaos, threatened on all sides,not only by war,or class division,but by such human fears as loneliness, uncertainty and failure
• Her young female characters, in search of the best prospect for marriage, end up marrying a country clergyman or a landed gentleman. The choices, the options are indicative: What Austen emphasizes is community in microcosm, the search for order in a world beset by chaos, threatened on all sides, not only by war, or class division, but by such human fears as loneliness, uncertainty and failure
Jane Austen's achievement is to create in each novel a fully realized and populated world,strictly limited in scope----a group of characters whose emotions are recognizable,whose faults are human,and whose traits are familiar. The issues may be small-scale,but it is precisely the universality of the characters'preoccupations that makes these issues attractive in a lasting way to a great many readers
• Jane Austen’s achievement is to create in each novel a fully realized and populated world, strictly limited in scope----a group of characters whose emotions are recognizable, whose faults are human, and whose traits are familiar. • The issues may be small-scale, but it is precisely the universality of the characters’ preoccupations that makes these issues attractive in a lasting way to a great many readers