Essay On Jane Austen Annotations

The short stories tell tales of two different marriage proposals, one of great love (Dickens) and one for social acceptance (Austen). Both situations are not ones of mutual love and commitment of two people, but are one sided and only fulfill the needs and dreams of the men in the stories. They are similar in the way that both are self-centered and the suitors only care about what is important to them. Both stories however, hint of social benefits to the women which would make the marriages advantageous for them also. Dickens's story is one of emotion and passion and Austen's story is one of selfishness and of a desire to impress others. However, because of the social stature that is implied for both women , the outcome will probably be the same. Both will probably result in an acceptance of

“To the woman who wishes to have children, we must give these answers to the question when not to have them.”. This was an eloquent quote from Margaret Sanger that she delivered in her book, Women and the New Race. Margaret was a very prominent feminist and she believed that women should be educated by knowing they have the right to control what happens with their body. This person is considered, by Time Magazine, to be one of the most influential individuals of the 20th century, mostly due to her role sex education, birth control activism, and also for her writings pertaining to those issues. This is why Margaret Sanger was such an important individual. She changed course for women’s rights by advocating the legalization of the use of contraceptives

Austen’s character, Mr.Collins, mainly focusses on himself when he is proposing, which causes him to come across as selfish and unemotional. Mr. Collins thinks that “It is the right thing” for him to get married to “set the example”(2). This suggests that Mr. Collins wants to be married because he feels he needs to set the example for his parish

The value given to marriage in the 18th century is examined by Jane Austen in pride and prejudice. These values are further explored and evaluated by Letters to Alice. Pride and Prejudice shows the urgency and importance placed on marriage as a vehicle for getting wealth, social status, and a home for women of the 18th century. Letters to Alice brings new insight into the context surrounding the motives of marriage in Pride and Prejudice, whilst also providing insight into the marriages of Weldon’s own era. Charlotte Lucas is characterised as a woman not ‘thinking higher either of men or matrimony,’ but she still marries Mr Collins

On February 26, 1861, the U.S Senate passed An Act to Organize the Territory of Nevada and it was finally established after ten years. If Nevada becomes a part of Arizona, gambling will not be established, since Arizona has a strict law on gambling. There’s not enough profit due to the strict laws on gambling and many people will become unemployed because the majority of Las Vegas consist of casino businesses. Nevada will probably take on an agricultural route instead of the gaming business. Nevada is a state that attracts many tourists due to the gambling industries and the entertainment in the casinos. I don’t think Las Vegas will become what it is today and instead it will be changed into something entirely.

The two passages written by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, spoken by two different men who are asking for a lady’s hand in marriage, have two very different motives for marriage. As the audience keeps reading and analyzing the passage rhetorical strategies the speaker’s intent becomes clear. The two men reasons for marriage are entirely different, as are there attitudes toward the objective at hand. In the paragraph written by Jane Austen, the speaker gives the woman three reasons to why he would like to marry. Firstly, he believes it will make happy to be married, secondly it’s a good example of matrimony, lastly his patroness Catharine DeBourgh advised him to get married as soon as possible. These reasons show the reader the speaker only

England has always had a rich history of interesting cultural traditions but arguably none as prevalent as marriage. Marriage, the union of two people with emotional ideals and expectations, are brought on by many different factors that include: for love, for money, for climbing social status, escapism, survival, etc. In Jane Austen’s novels, she focuses on the importance of marriage in her world because she wanted to emphasize how marriage is the most important life event of a woman as this would determine her place in society. Persuasion shows readers good and bad examples of marriage: the amiable Crofts and other couples such as Sir Walter & Lady Elliot and the Smiths. Jane Austen uses the Crofts to support the importance of marriage

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Marriage is like a chapter in a book, and the beginning of every chapter requires an effective transition. Marriage proposals should not correspond to Mr Collins’ selfish and business-like proposal. Instead, a proposal should express a man’s passion for his beloved which is what the suitor in Charles Dickens’ passage accomplishes. The woman receiving Collins’ lackluster proposal would reject it with disdain, whereas the woman in Dickens’ passage would wholeheartedly agree to the suitor’s passionate proposal.

Whereas Austen’s character sees marriage as a business deal; Dicken’s character sees marriage as a way to spend the rest of his life with someone he loves dearly and cannot live without. Through phrases such as “I love you,” and “I am fit for nothing…you could draw me to any good—every good—with equal force,” shows that Dicken’s character is in love with this woman and he feels that he is nothing without her and that she makes him a better person. The diction is powerful as well with words and phrases such as “love.” “all my heart,” and “you”. By using these words the character is able to show the women that she is the only one that can make him feel this way, that no other women on this earth will ever make him say, “I love you”. The character

In Pride and Prejudice Author Jane Austen claims that marriage should be between a man and women who love each other equally. Austen's disgust of Marriage and decorum in British culture is written through the eyes of main the main character in Pride and Prejudice, Miss Elizabeth Bennett. It is sad to think that marriage could be bought or in Elizabeth Bennett’s case not afforded. Marriage shouldn’t be the only measure of worth for women. Someone should not feel “repugnance” for a marriage due to situation.

The biased process and importance of marriage are introduced with the first line of the book. Jane Austen writes:

As Mr. Elton’s pride is greatly damaged, he decides to go to bath for a holiday, and returns with an offensive, vulgar woman, who will soon be his wife. Mrs. Elton is a rude, dull woman, but has a high social status, which is the reason Mr. Elton chose her. From this love-match, Austen shows us how wrong it is to marry for anything but love. Though it is a highly amusing situation, and Mrs. Elton herself is a very comical character, it in fact causes very serious and severe circumstances, in which these two people will be unhappily married for most probably the rest of their lives.

Through the use of literary devices, Pride and Prejudice reveals Jane Austen’s attitude towards the novel’s theme of true love through the actions of the suitors; the process of courtship in the 1800s articulates characterization, foreshadowing, and irony. The novel opens with the line, “it is a truth acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of wife,” (Austen 1) which foreshadows the conflict of finding a significant other . During the Victorian age, men and women courted others of the same education, wealth, and social status; it was considered uncommon for someone to marry beneath them or to marry for love. Jane Austen uses Elizabeth Bennett’s encounters with different characters of varying

During the time of Jane Austen the socio-economic status of a woman depended greatly on marriage. Perhaps it was Austen’s past life events that led her to constructing such a magnificent piece of writing like Emma. Austen herself was to be a witness of how a woman’s reputation could change with marriage, once she received a marriage proposal which she denied despite the fact that this man was “to inherit a sizeable amount of real estate” (Warren, 2). Emma by Jane Austen undoubtedly tells about the life of women whose one of the few ways of exercising any sort of power was by choosing whether they wanted to marry or not. Human speech has never been something easy to decipher, since people do not always say what they mean, regardless of time period. This is also reflected in Emma, where riddles and word games between the characters of the novel have different meanings for different people. These word games can be utilized by women in different ways as they can be easily misinterpreted, at the same time, such matters can drastically change the stature of a woman.