Transcript of Jane Austen Day Jane Austen Jane Austen, one of the major novelists in English literature, was born...
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- Jane Austen Jane Austen, one of the major novelists in English
literature, was born on 16 December 1775 and she died on 18 July
1817. She was a graceful girl, who enjoyed the social life that her
small world provided. She soon developed the qualities of a careful
observer of human society: she had a great ability to read right
inside people.
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- With irony, she explored human emotion and behavior. She began
to devote to the writing in young age: she wrote novels of manners,
giving portraits of the provincial middle-class. The plots of her
novels are based on the traditional values of the land owners and
the high middle class (ownership, decorum, money and marriage). The
happy ending is a common element of her novels.
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- Her most important works are :
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- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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- Mansfield Park (1814)
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- Emma (1815)
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- Northanger Abbey (1818 posthumous)
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- Persuasion (1818 posthumous )
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- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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- Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice was written between
1796 and 1797, and published in 1813. It is the most famous novel
of Jane Austen.
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- Elizabeth, the heroine of the story, is one of five daughters
of Mr.Bennet, second in age only to the beautiful Jane. Although
the girls' life is comfortable enough as long as their father
lives, their long-term financial survival depends on their
marrying, because if they dont find husbands, the Bennet estate
will pass to a male relative.
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- The story revolves around Elizabeth, a girl with a strong
personality. When in the village arrive two rich gentlemen, Mr.
Bingley and Mr. Darcy, the calm life of the girls is shaken.
Bingley falls in love with Jane, and Darcy is attracted to
Elizabeth, even if he believes he is socially superior to her. This
makes Elizabeth angry, so she refuses his proposal of
marriage.
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- Only when they overcome their pride and prejudice they will be
ready for a marriage of love. The novel ends with happy marriages
of the two couples. In 2005 Joe Wright directed a film about this
story. It had a lot of success and received different Oscar
nominations.
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- Jane Austen has left us an inestimable inheritance, throwing a
witty look and never banal, but rather rich of irony and
perspicacity on a dark side of the society of the epoch, that of a
pure and sensitive femininity, but at the same time coerced by the
rigid rules of the run to the marriage.
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