Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice written in the early 19th century is a classic novel that can be well dissected and understand by considering the values and attitudes in which people performed in that context. Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, written in the late 20th century has enhanced this understanding through the intensive facts in which she has provided in her text about Jane Austen’s context. Both being a successful female writer, audiences are able to see the similarities in which both authors has made about the world of women. This similarity is established through the numerous values in which both texts have used to allow audiences to compare the lives of women in the two completely different contexts. These values include: marriage, self-actualisation.
The novel Jane Eyre is an autobiographical account including elements of a fairy tale, gothic mystery and is Bildungsroman, as it follows the characters internal development. This essay will focus on Jane’s controversial standing in her autobiography, where she searches to be independent and of a higher social standing. The way in which Charlotte Bronte imposes the style of writing in describing scenes and passages containing letters sets the content of the novel and leads to the climax of the text and inevitably the ending of the novel. From the opening paragraph which creates the scene for the narrators essential traits, to the letters perceived throughout, provide the context for the plot. Jane Eyre is an autobiography in which she tells of her journey through life, imposing her need of achieving independence and social stature to be at last happy and fulfilled.
“Studying a pair of texts provides insights into the values of different contexts.” To what extent is this true of the two texts you have studied? Amy Heckerling has managed to creatively transform her 1995 teen film ‘Clueless’ into one of Jane Austen’s classic novels, ‘Emma’ (1815) by sustaining the same significant and important values and elements despite living in different contexts. This is depicted through the contrasting of cinematic techniques and narrative structure. The progress of the importance of social hierarchies and the revolution of self-realization is produced to be invariable. ‘Emma’ exposes the impacts of social hierarchies in the way people interact and behave with each other.
How does your visual representation explore the connections between the two texts studied in class? Through the use of visual techniques, analogous themes and similar ideas between two texts, we are able to explore and identify the connections that are seen as either deteriorating or growing stronger as context changes. Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen and Letters to Alice, Fay Weldon, share a relationship of related concepts, which the composers establish either in the form of a novel (Jane Austen) or an epistolary (Fay Weldon). Concepts of marriage, love and social status are interrogated in these texts throughout, displaying the differences in views as well as sharing the resemblances of them in Pride and Prejudice, published in the early 19th century, an era of repression and Letters to Alice, published in the late 20th century, an era of mass consumerism. The theme of Family is widely acknowledged in both texts and the importance of having one as well as the feel of togetherness associated with this is seen as being fragmented as the two eras are contrasted with one another.
The following essay will be concerned with Jane Austen’s coming-of-age novel Northanger Abbey. The modeled social order and how Austen’s protagonist Catherine Morland finds her place in society will be described in detail by analyzing the generic traditions and the narrative strategies. In reference to this, lucky and rather unfortunate events, experiences and Catherine’s acquaintances will be studied in detail. For this purpose, the motif of reading will be the most important argument. In Northanger Abbey there are two kinds of reading: reading books or letters respectively and reading people.
Hawthorne uses the story of Hester Prynne to exemplify this. An ambiguous woman, who accepts and rejects at the same time the cruel and strict character of puritanism. . The book, from the start to the very end, presents us a sequence of symbols. The use of those symbols gives to the novel a fanciful style, transforming characters or simple objects on a figurative representation to understand the context and the author’s view point.
Compare and contrast how strong feelings are shown in Jane Austen's 'Emma' and William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'? Jane Austen's "Emma" is compressed with strong emotions. From the opening lines of the novel, we can identify the protagonist, Emma Woodhouse's, feelings of joy towards her life, as a high society lady in 19th century England; the time of Britain's rise in global power. Although this seems like a momentous time, Austen uses her literature to depict emotions that would not have been noticed at the time of her writing. She portrays strong feeling regarding the social class system of the time, the view towards women and marriage, and the complexities friendship and compassion held in the 19th century.
For us as readers, to look at the wimples is to read the authoritarian practice of Gilead which attempts to control women, and to permit only one view of reality. By decoding Atwood's framing texts, we can read the frame itself as well as reading through it. Such a reading may in fact expand our view, for it adds layers of inference and possibility. Many critics 57 Atwood have discussed one of the framing texts, the Historical Notes section at the end. Indeed, this topic is the focal point of articles by Arnold E. Davidson and Patrick D. Murphy.
This novel uses the emotions of the narrator, the actions and events in the story and the way that they connect with and clearly stem from society at the time that the novel was written, to make the novel easy to relate to for a reader and allows them to take on board the lessons and themes of The Handmaid's Tale in a more personal and meaningful way. A fictional novel can be made to feel real to a reader by use of details. If a book uses a lot of small details and intricacies it creates a world around the novel that can feel convincing and suck the reader in. Often books that invent a world tend to play off the world that already exists around them and then alter things so that the reader has a way 'in' to the plot and a level to connect with it on and then can open their mind to what the author chooses to add. Some famous series that do this include Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkein and Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre reveals this idea by the development of the protagonist. Through a series of character foils, Bronte expresses her idea of self-development and growth of the human spirit by contrasting passion with reason. In the novel, Bronte suggests that in one's lifetime, they will encounter a number of people and experiences that will arouse enough emotion in them to have the power to change their direction in life. St. John Rivers plays one of these life determining foils to Jane Eyre. His confidence, devotion, and reason intrigue Jane almost enough to silence her inner passionate spirit, but it is the forces of nature that prove to be stronger than human will.