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    about ordinary people in everyday life. Her books were satires of middle-class life in England at the time of her books. Her novels include Sense and Sensibility (published 1811), Pride and Prejudice (published 1813), Mansfield Park (published 1814), Emma (published 1815), along with Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (published after her death in

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    It is well known that young men and women are not the best judges of friends; this holds especially true when they have little experience with friendship, and few chances to truly understand people and how they act. When Jane Austen began editing her first novel, Northanger Abbey, in 1803, at the age of 28, she had gone through the same troubling period during adolescence, but once she was older, she had found her own set group of friends, and was especially close to Anne Lefroy and her sister Cassandra

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    Throughout the course of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, Austen creates numerous couples and presents them to the readers. With Jane Austen as the supernatural mastermind, Lydia and Mr. Wickham, act as counter agents to the main characters, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, and help to highlight the positive qualities that Austen crafts with throughout the novel. Jane Austen composes the main protagonist, Elizabeth, as a mature and haste thinker with the purpose of juxtaposing Lydia's brashness

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    Written and published in 1813, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is still read and thoroughly enjoyed all across the globe today, two-hundred-three years after its initial release. It's excellent ability to retain the interest of readers throughout history was obtained through Austen’s capability to bring forth themes in the story such as love, class, and reputation; themes that are relevant to any person at any point in time. Similar to this literary relic, the drama “A Raisin in the Sun” by

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    Emma gains her provincial ideals early on in her life. When she receives news at the convent that her mother has died, she weeps for several days as a show of how sad she is (or should be). When her father comes to see if she is okay, she is “...inwardly pleased to feel that she had so quickly attained that rare ideal of a pale, languid existence, beyond the reach of mediocre spirits...she was finally surprised to discover that she felt quite tranquil again and that she had no more sadness in her

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    What Are Emma's Flaws

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    Emma seems to regard the visit as a necessary annoyance; despite outward actions, she is, inside of herself, feeling annoyed and irritated at having to visit Mrs. Bates. She "determined" to talk to the Bates, but does not appear to want to. She also seems to avoid the house as much as possible, given that "the few" who saw faults in her knew she did not visit as much as she should. Her attitude towards the Bates is one of ascendency and polite dismissal. She appears to regard them almost as fools

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    Emma's Roles

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    to one another helped them conquer challenging times (Black, p. #). EMMA’S ROLES IN LEADING THE SCHOOL No matter the difference between Emma and Ashley’s personalities their Alva Ross Brown believed, “Through Emma’s heritage, training temperament, and personal devotion. Emma was more than suited enough to support Ashley’s kingdom service (Brown, p. 11). Emma possessed great character and left her influence on Johnson University as much as Ashely did (Brown, p. 11). They worked together well due

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    Pride and Prejudice is a novel with a romantic yet ironic story. This completes Jane Austen’s masterpiece. The novel is about women in society and marriage. Austen uses sarcasm as the tone of the novel to make the story ironic. The tone is sarcastic because of the way Elizabeth Bennet is portrayed, the relationship between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, and the situations her characters are in. Elizabeth Bennet is the main female character of Pride and Prejudice. Through Elizabeth’s character

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    their college graduation. Although Emma knew Dexter because of classes they shared, through an amusing act of fate, Dexter met Emma for the first time on that night. Left stranded at the graduation, Emma needed a ride home and Dexter was more than willing to help her. He drove her home and was invited into her appartment. Emma really liked Dexter so, to no surprise, her nerves got the best of her. After excusing herself, for a chance to calm down in private, Emma returned only to discover that him

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    Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a story of twisted relationships and romances, and set during the Elizabethan Era, is considered one of the best written novels of all time but is it, really? The book seems as though may never die. Although the book is commonly used throughout schools in Australia, many question its relevance to the contemporary era. The story consists of the prejudices of Elizabeth Bennet and the pride of William Darcy in one of the most typical love story scenarios, a hatred

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