The Function Of Elizabeth-Elizabeth And Donald Farfrae

Fitting with the common theme between the two novels of the judgment of others, each heroine falls victim to a horrible misjudgment of the character of another. After discovering that the engagement between her brother and her friend Isabella has been broken, Catherine finds she has grossly misjudged her friend’s character, and thinks, “She was ashamed of Isabella, ashamed of ever having loved her” (Northanger 150). Elizabeth, on the other hand, finds her attachment the Wickham wholly inappropriate after receiving her letter from Mr. Darcy. After digesting the shocking contents of the letter, Elizabeth “grew absolutely ashamed of herself.—Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd” (Pride 156). And indeed, as suggested by Elizabeth’s mention of Darcy, this misjudgment goes on to affect each girl’s attachment to her future husband.

Continuing her uncertainty of her sister’s judgement, Elizabeth concurs with Jane’s perception of Bingley while questioning “And so, you like this man’s sisters too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his” (11). Austen included this statement to show Elizabeth’s obsession with people’s manners and acknowledge society’s rules about manners, which Elizabeth has plentiful thoughts about. Simultaneously, Elizabeth ridicules the Bingley sisters’ manners and compliments Mr. Bingley’s. By asking if Jane likes the sisters, Elizabeth’s skeptical and scornful attitude towards people with poor manners is captured. Similarly, Austen demonstrates Elizabeth’s rejection of society’s idea about wealth and being a good person. While she acknowledges that this circumstance is true for Mr. Bingley, Elizabeth uses the Bingley sisters to prove this standard wrong. Without Elizabeth’s pessimism towards the Bingley sisters, the novel would lose

Power—one’s influence on society—is coveted by many. What has been sympathy in the past, has become greed for more control, strength, and reverence from others. People have began to focus on being all knowing and dominating, rather than being just a friend. The conquest to gain more power has become a major influence on a person’s actions; however, these actions are usually self destructive, leading to a person’s downfall. Power is what drives people’s actions, and eat people inside and out on their way to this ultimate goal. In the competition for power, only the people who best comprehend their environment and adapt appropriately can ultimately succeed.. The Mayor of Casterbridge follows multiple different characters in a prison-like society. In this society, there is a constant thirst for power, and a fight for this control. Each character tries to quench this desire in a different way, and ultimately many characters fail to reach this ideal situation. The characters in the novel are very driven in their ways that there is a limited change in the fight for power. Many argue that in order to have possession of all this power, one must be familiar about all aspects of society, rather than being distant. In his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy argues this belief. Through the character of Farfrae, the goldfinch, and the isolated death of Henchard, Hardy advocates that innocence results in an expansion of power and self control.

Madame Elisabeth was born May 3, 1764 and died May 10,1794. Madame Elisabeth was born to Louis Dauphin and Maria Josepha. Madame was a French princess and the youngest sister of King Louis XVI. At the age of three she was orphaned, but she received an excellent education and revealed considerable talents in math and science. Madame Elisabeth also had considerable talents in drawing, embroidery, and a tuneless singer. From a very young age she showed to have an ambiguous personality combined with great devotion with a pacific eccentricity and dissipation. As she got older she developed a very strong bond with her older brother King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette to which she remained loyal to throughout her life, refusing notably to

Marriage is a crucial stage in a person’s life, but it played an even bigger role in Austen’s’ time, especially for women. Wickham is a disliked character in the novel because of the way he takes advantage of a situation. Charlotte is an obedient wife who does not miss a marriage proposal. Elizabeth on the other hand, does not mind taking her time to find a husband. Therefore, she would be considered the most independent character in the story. Austen is occupied trying to cover the different aspects of marriage.

Jane is taught at a young age to look down on people not of her caste, and to oppress them the same way that she herself is oppressed as a female orphan. Though Jane is not influenced directly by social status at all times, it is still a constant factor which Brontë makes evident. In Victorian England, a female must either be born or married into her social class, and this is what defines her. The character of Jane served to undercut the popular female stereotypes of fiction: the angel of the house, the invalid, or the whore (Brackett, 2000). Brontë creates Jane as her own force, in which she is neither the angel, invalid or whore, but a young lady who is intelligent and has pride and dignity. In this Victorian society, her unsubmissiveness and independence is her social fault, which Brontë pokes fun at (Brackett, 2000). Male Victorian writers cast women during this time as social, finagling creatures whose goals are to obtain as many friends as possible and throw the most elaborate parties. Brontë opposes this by creating Jane as an opposite of these “defining” characteristics, by making Jane a female who could are less about how many people adore her, a female who would actually enjoy a life with few companions. As mentioned before, Jane’s sense of dignity is evident. As Jane became Rochester’s governess, she is faced with the

Elizabeth was born in West Memphis, Arkansas, but raised in Memphis, Tennessee. While being raised in Memphis, she attended public schools. Elizabeth was a very outgoing person, who could be easily influenced by her peers. As she got older she became an out of control teen, getting into all kinds of trouble, which caused her to drop out of high school in the eight grade. When her mother tried to put her back in school, she continued to skip and miss days on a regular basis. After several people talked to her, she decided that she wanted to go back, but it was too late because at that time, she was too old and wasn’t permitted to go back, because of the trouble she’d cause. When other children of her peers attended school, Elizabeth was running wild and lose with the wrong

He believes novelist William Thackeray’s humor to “[have] escaped the intellect of many.” In contrast, he believes Dickens to have, “[drawn] his lines so broadly, so that all should see the colour.” To many though, the value of a character lies in his or her ability to form a connection and identify with the reader. Regardless, Anthony Trollope’s criticism of Dickens’ failure to create a “human” character is inapplicable to Hardy’s creation of character in the novel Far from the Madding Crowd. Although, at times, the characters succumb to the stereotypical notions brought to mind by their names, Hardy creates authentically passionate and dynamic characters through his use of vivid description, regionalist dialogue, and explorations into human psychology that sharply contrast the pastoral setting of the

Here, the rigidity of classes is presented to the responder through Elizabeth’s advice to Mr Collins; “[that the] honour must belong to My Darcy, the superior in consequence, to begin the acquaintance”, as he attempts to introduce himself to Mr Darcy. However, Weldon prompts that whilst the characters of the novel conform to this intrinsic value for class centred society, Austen also hints at the disruption of class systems through Mr Darcy’s autonomy; “marrying where he loved and not where he ought”. Here, Weldon asserts that “Jane Austen likes to see the division between nobility and gentry broken down”, in which “Elizabeth Bennet brought neither land nor money to Mr Darcy- but intelligence, vigour and honesty”. Weldon advocates this kind of autonomy in which Elizabeth’s bildungsroman; “till this moment, I never knew myself” highlights her ability to self-reflect and grow. This is compared to the caricature of Mary, who constantly “copies out extracts” from the books she reads, yet ironically, at times “had not the words” to add to a discussion, where Weldon’s notion of “primitive creature” who “knows more and understands less” is highlighted.

Living almost a century apart, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy each explore similar themes of love through strong female characters. While society strove to keep women’s value directly tied to their marital status, Austen and Hardy wrote the stories of characters who defied these expectations. Bathsheba Everdene of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd is a fiery young woman who inherits a farm, and Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is an educated woman who prides herself on speaking her mind regardless of the consequences. Both women are of marrying age, and both novels feature their romantic exploits. Besides their differing socio-economic and temporal settings, Bathsheba’s and Elizabeth’s behaviors indicate that they are facing similar feelings and conflicts when it comes to issues of love and marriage. Bathsheba goes to greater lengths to defy societal pressures than Elizabeth does, but Bathsheba’s circumstances warrant the effort. The real difference between these characters is the way in which they are written. One could not know how similar Bathsheba’s thoughts and feelings are to Elizabeth’s, because the reader rarely sees through Ms. Everdene’s eyes. Bathsheba Everdene is the greater feminist heroine when taken alongside Elizabeth Bennet; however, Hardy writes her story almost exclusively from the perspective of his male characters, leaving her represented as two-dimensional in comparison to

Lucetta falls ill and dies, and now Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane are planning on getting married. Even though Farfrae’s now Henchard’s enemy, he’s willing to overlook his own emotions first, and put his daughter’s first. Henchard leaves town of their wedding day, but once Elizabeth-Jane hears that he has left, she immediately goes looking for him and finds him at a friends house, near death. Henchard passes and his daughter takes his will, only to read that “Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve.” (242) Hardy’s use of diction here is important because Henchard says “Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae” which implies that he has learned to put his past rivalry with Farfrae aside and accept their love. He also feels that he has caused enough pain in her life that she does not deserve any more. He’s somewhat guilty for all the things he has put her through. The will continues to say “that no man remembers me.” and Hardy’s use of tone signifies that Henchard’s not doing this for pity, he’s true in his words (242). This is a huge change in Henchard’s character because, previously, all he wanted was to be accepted and thought highly of by everyone, and now he asks that no one remembers him. After reading her father’s will, Elizabeth-Jane comes to the realization that he has truly had a change of heart and that “the man who wrote them [the words on the will] meant what he said.” (243). Elizabeth-Jane’s tone in this sentence suggest that she forgives him for all the pain he has caused her, and she’s willing to move forward. Through Henchard’s acceptance of her marriage, he’s truly a different person, because before, he would have only thought of how the situation applied to him but now he’s finally thinking of other people. Henchard’s cognizance allowed him to realize that his pride was doing nothing but hurting his relationships with

At the beginning of the excerpt Elizabeth’s father, Henchard is first introduced not as a fond, warm-hearted man; he is presented as an “enigma.” Elizabeth views her

Indeed, our heroine is seemingly destined to remain in some sort of ‘no-man 's land’ between the upper- and servant classes and Mrs. Reed’s cruelty exacerbates the protagonist 's increasing isolation, “she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little

Jane’s foster family, the Reeds, restrict her rights, refusing to treat her as an equal to the other members of the family. Jane, at a mere eight years old, is chastised by Mrs. Abbott, the nanny, who asserts, “you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep” (Bronte 11). When Rochester imprisons Antoinette in England, he deprives her of any sense of humanity. The people in their lives who yielded power over them unjustly repressed both women.

The Mayor of Casterbridge is an English novel written by Thomas Hardy in 1886 and is an exploration into the values of common people, and the reliance on status to achieve happiness. Michael Henchard is not unlike most men. He is tempered and blind often by selfish wants and gains, but maintains a human aspect of misery that is relatable. Man's inherent need and want of more transcend to other aspects such and relationships(whether romantic or of friendship) and the disparity of man with a need of want, and dissatisfaction. It is based upon character whether the man’s wants will help him and others or become his downfall. Henchard needs to want and achieve more to feel complete and without it he feels like nothing. The Mayor of Casterbridge truly examines life as one of confusion and emptiness,but there is more to be seen.