Explore How Austen Uses Form, Structure And Langua

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Explore how Austen uses form, structure and language to present marriage and society in the late 18th century. Three sisters were written by Jane Austen as a short story based on three different outlooks on marriage. . The short story is written in epistolary form showing a deep insight to the thoughts and feelings of the characters, modelling to Jane Austen’s niece how she wanted her to think and act and what was appropriate. Austen used this as a structural device to show the different perspectives of attitudes to marriage from Mary, Georgiana and Sophy. Ironically, Austen used the post script in the story to dedicate the story to her, she says although she is not yet old enough to marry she will one day be able to read it and use the advice. In the Georgian England society marriage was an expectation from women at a young age. This was generally because the man was expected to take a woman and keep her financially stable for their lifetime. Georgian England society was a formal society, men and women were always at tea parties during the day and balls at night. The way they would dress would always be very formal; women would be in big dresses and men in suits. The era was all round highly formal. Men were expected to have a good job resulting in a good income, having lots of money to keep a women economically secure. A good reputation was always wanted by a woman; they were expected to be able to do things such as horse riding and play polo also they were required to do such things as go hunting. A man was always looked upon to be respectable and gentlemanly and always take care of women, whether it is a female servant or his mother. Well educated was look for in a man also. Expectations of women were looked for also, being able to play the piano, speak French, sing and sow. During the day they would attend formal tea parties with their friends, they
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