Review Of ' Pride And Prejudice '

At Lowood, a school which Jane is sent away to, she is again given the

Jane Austen’s heroines are women who grow into understanding themselves and their environments and are developed into fully realized characters. These heroines then fall in love and get married. Austen’s writing leads the reader into hoping that they do find love and their own enlightenment. When writing Pride and Prejudice, Austen specifically decides to write a character and a story that most readers would enjoy. Though with Emma, she explicitly says, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."

Jane was not only resented but also lacking any kind of love to balance her out. We know this right away when she is reading her book and she notes "there were certain introductory pages I could not pass quite as a blank. They were

In the early stages of Jane's life she was a very autonomous girl. She grew up in a hostile environment in the home of Mrs. Reed and her three children, John, Eliza, and Georgiana that is known as Gateshead. The Reed family showed no love or any sort of affection towards Jane in any way, shape, or form; for they all despised her. She spent most of her time out of contact of others. The most contact she had with someone was a

Her Aunt as well as her only cousins resent Jane. She is an outcast, but nevertheless at only the age of

Jane Austen’s ideas differed with the patriarchal system of her times. She elicited feminist concepts to contradict of the patriarchal structure; Emma’s first determined not to marry. When Harriet once asked why Emma never thought about marriage, she replied that most women were married because of insufficiently social ranking or money. She certainly had all of these privileges, so she won’t

Gaines through elements such as effective title choice, valid allusions, and strategic point- of-view made his book, The Autobiography of Jane Pittman believable. Toni Morrison says, “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” And Gaines, as a successful writer, wrote a type of book that has not been written

Jane Long was born on July 23, 1798. The tenth child in her family. She spent most of her childhood on her parents plantation in Charles County and was the tenth child in her family household. Jane had to learn how to grow up without a father. He died a little bit before she was about to turn 1 years old in 1799. At age 14 Jane had sadly become an orphan after her mother had passed away. She had grew up with her older sister, Barbara who was married to Alexander Calvit and lived in a plantation in Washington, Mississippi. Jane grew up there until she met James Long. Soon after he returned from the battle of New Orleans the couple gotten married on May 14, 1815 and had two kids of their own. James went on to study medicine four years later in at Port Gibson, he then became a merchant in Natchez. Jane grew tired of waiting so she left Mississippi to be with the love of her life. She left with both her two children and a slave named Kian. Now living in Alexandria, Louisiana Jane became very ill. She kept moving knowing nothing is going to stop her from being with the love of her life. She slowly became healthy and was all recovered before reaching to Nacogdoches in August. Soon Jane and along with other American families had to flee to sabine when Spanish troops were approaching the frontier. James had managed to meet Jane near the Sabine. But, when Jane had

Jane was said to be dishevelled by this decision, as she had to leave the place she'd always known as home. This caused a prolonged state of counter productivity, in terms of writing. She abandoned the drafts she had been working on. She didn't continue writing for roughly ten years, when she prepared Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice for publication. Soon after, she wrote Mansfield Parks, Persuasion, and Emma. She had begun writing Sandition, but stopped when an illness prevented her from further work. This illness was undiagnosed at the time, though she lacked energy and was eventually bedridden. Jane Austen died on 18 July, 1897, at the age of 41. It's assumed she died of Addison's disease or Hodgkin's

One would think that she would grow up to be unforgiving, but Jane explains that she “must resist those who punish [her] unjustly. It is as natural as that [she] should love those who show [her] affection, or submit to punishment when [she] feel it is deserved” (Bronte 119). Jane saying this to her young friend, Helen, exemplifies how Jane was beyond her years and how she grew into being a young woman of wisdom. Her development throughout the novel is shown by her beginning as an isolated orphan in her society, yet she ended as an heiress with a family of her own. Jane who creates her own family and happiness by being independent, remaining curious and maintaining self-respect.

            Left orphaned and under the care of extended family, Jane Eyre faced oppression from a young age.  Though strong-willed and independent with an unusual (and considered unnatural by some) brand of spunk, Jane worked hard to appease her aunt, Mrs. Reed, while at the same time representing everything that a young woman of the time should have shunned according to cultural practices; "I dared commit no fault: I strove to fulfill every duty; and I was termed naughty and tiresome, sullen and sneaking, from morning to noon, and from noon to night" (Brontë 14).  Hints from nursemaid Bessie were of no avail to Jane, "You should try to be useful and pleasant, then perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, Missis will send you away, I am sure" (12).  Bessie's words prophesized Jane's future departure, but ten year-old Jane did

10-year-old Jane lives under the custody of her Aunt Reed, who hates her. Jane resents her harsh treatment by her aunt and cousins so much that she has a severe temper outburst, which results in her aunt sending her to Lowood boarding school. At the end of the eight years, she has become a teacher at Lowood. At the age of eighteen she seeks independence and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall.

At the novel's opening, Jane is living with the cruel Mrs. Reed and her horrid three children, Eliza, Georgiana, and John. Mrs. Reed makes her distaste for Jane very evident in all of her actions. She forbids her to play with her (Mrs. Reed's) children (Jane's own cousins) and falsely accuses her of being a "liar" and of possessing a "mean spirit." Mrs. Reed's attitude is

This shows how influential her writing has become throughout the years. Austen’s writing opened the door for other writers to explore romantic literature. “J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, grew up reading Austen, who she described as ‘the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire’” (Redman). She inspires others, not only to write romance, but science fiction like Rowling has done. Her influence on the literature work is is astonishing considering she lived in the 1700’s. Many writers of that time are forgotten by most, but she has lived on way past her death. Austen is taught in high school and college English classes. She has been a huge inspiration for female writers as well. “Jane Austen is now thought of as one of the greatest English authors and considered by many as the first great woman novelist” (Jane Austen [b.1775-d. 1817]). Being considered as one of the first female novelist is a great accomplishment and a huge honor, it is a great shame the “creator” of romance did not get the recognition until after her death. She could have helped develop most extraordinary writers in her

After her father's death in January 1805, Jane, her mother, her sister Cassandra, and family friend Martha Lloyd, moved first to Clifton, and then, in autumn 1806, to Southampton