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An Analysis of Pride and Prejudice from Structuralist Perspective

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel from Jane Austen, a prominent female British writer, which has attracted considerable attention from the perspective of language, content, feminism, and marriage view but without the plot organization. Different from the previous study, this paper aims at the plot organization of the novel to see its structure and the deep meaning. This paper is devoted to analyzing the novel from the surface and deep structure, in which the structuralist approach is employed. The surface and deep structure theory is the main clue; besides, the structuralist narratological methods are applied to analyze the cases in the novel and explore the surface structure and deep structure respectively. The concepts of surface and deep structure and the structuralist narratological methods were applied to analyze Pride and Prejudice to see how the plots act to serve for the theme. The paper shows that the achievement of a novel is closely related to its complement of the structure. The clear hierarchies can effectively elaborate the story and the theme. To divide the plot into several parts can easily control and handle the development and interaction of the plots. The relative and oppositional relations of the different plots contribute to the demonstration of the theme and the comprehension of the readers.

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Satire and Realism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: an Interpretative Analysis

Jane Austen is acknowledged for the application of realism and satire in her novels. This paper focuses on the analysis of realism and satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; however, her entire oeuvre spotlights the features (of satire and realism) alongside robust feminism: typical of her literary taste and temperament, not necessarily of the Romantic Age which she lived in. Rigorous analysis and realistic observation reveals that the employment of realism and satire in Pride and Prejudice, are quite obvious, in all sorts of aspects including narrative, settings, themes and characters. Analysis of the novel under study leads to the observation that satire and realism go hand in hand in the said novel—intermittently—and thoughtfully. Conclusively, it is observed that Jane Austen’s literary life had a tremendous influence on how to subsume realism (primarily through matrimonies) of age and satire on a romantic society (whereby ideals collapse headlong), in Pride and Prejudice.

Inference of Personality Projected onto Fictional Characters Having an Author's First Name

Jane Austen projected some of her personality characteristics onto her fictional namesakes Jane Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice and Jane Fairfax in the novel Emma. Wishful fantasy seems satisfied by two attributes of both Janes. They are very beautiful, and they marry rich men they love. A feeling of inferiority was expressed by two attributes of both Janes, depicted as deficient in social communication and subordinate to the heroine of the novel.

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Anyone on earth may at one time or another reflects him or herself in a way he or she feels comfortable—be it as simple as writing up a phrase “Go to Hell with Communism!” on a wall of an old building. In this respect, he or she has reflected him or herself that he or she does not agree with the ideology of communism. The current study investigated to justify that literary works reflect the ‘selves’ of the authors in one or more possible ways. A poet may, to reflect him or herself, be characterized as employing particular styles or diction. A novelist may try to involve in one of the characters he or she has developed in order to reflect him or herself. In this study, a novel entitled “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (1813) was investigated to justify that the author (Austen) reflected herself in one of the characters in the novel. The findings reveal that Austen tried to manifest herself in one of the characters called ‘Elizabeth Bennet’ in three different ways: (1) how she behaved in her family (loving all family members, especially being close to her father), (2) how she spent most of the time—reading to broaden the horizon of thinking. As a result, she could (3) skillfully negotiate with other people through their positive sides. The study concludes that everyone, of whatever professions he or she has, will reflect him or herself in a way he or she may not realize.

Male and Female Speech in Pride and Prejudice Novel by Jane Austen and Its Implication in Teaching Speaking

<p>The study of gender is essential to the study of language. It is quite clear that male and female characters are different in many aspects. They not only different in their physical aspect but also in using a language. This research aimed to uncover the differences of a linguistic feature in the speech of male and female characters based on woman’s language theory revealed by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, linguistic features which are dominantly used by male and female characters and its implication in teaching speaking. Lakoff is<strong> </strong>a linguist who began the research of the feature of woman’s language. The data of this research were taken from conversations of male and female main characters in <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> novel by Jane Austen. Data collection technique used was documentation which was applied two steps they are reading the novel thoroughly and enlisting all speeches uttered by the main characters of the novel. The instrument of this research was Documentation Guideline. The researcher analyzed the data by using analysis technique according to Mile and Huberman, namely data reduction, data display, and verification. This research revealed that male and female character differs in their number of using of linguistic features. Female characters are stated use more lexical hedge, avoidance of strong swear word, rising intonation on declarative, empty adjective, intensifier, emphatic stress and super polite form than male do. Female characters use those features to show their uncertainty toward things; they tend to avoid strong swear word and use more superpolite form. Therefore, female expressions are considered more polite than male. Consequently, they can avoid friction in their conversation and build effective communication across gender. This result is in line with Lakoff theory. The researcher found that the feature which is dominantly used by male and female is an intensifier. Furthermore, the implication of this research in teaching speaking especially complimenting and interrupting expression as the functional expression is the student needs to exposed expressions of complimenting and interrupting appropriately.</p>

Of Snake Dances, Overseas Brides, and Miss World Pageants

InPride and Prejudice, author Jane Austen shows us nineteenth-century British class hierarchy. On one level, this hierarchy is established through wealth and means, but on another, it is through differences between characters created by breeding and manners. In the book, conversations and habits are signs of these differences, and therefore, signs of worth. InBride and Prejudice: A Bollywood Musical, using the basic narrative of the novel, director Gurinder Chadha gives us a colorful picture of global-political economics. Differences between countries like India, Britain, and the United States are established through signs of wealth and consumerism, but also through dance and body movements. A Bollywood staple of song-and-dance is deployed here as a marker of difference between India and others, and between an old India with stifling economic practices and a new one that welcomes its tourists, investors, and bridegrooms with open arms and legs. While on the one hand, Chadha seems to consciously point out the problems of global economic inequality and imperialism, in other ways, she seems complicit in the plot to attract India's others to get a little taste of India, by using female bodies to construct a modern, seductive picture of the country.

تحليل النموذج العاملي في رواية متاع في ضوء الدراسات الاجتماعية والنفسية للدكتورة : مريم حسن آل علي

تهدف الدراسة لتحليل النموذج العامليِّ في رواية متاع ؛ لرصد تفاعلها مع مثل هذه التحليلات ؛ لتعيين القوى الفاعلة التي تسهم في نسج الأحداث. والإشكالية هي أنّ التحليل العاملي يعد دراسة شكلية للنصوص ،لا تتوغل رأسياً إلى عمق النص ؛ لهذا ضمَّنتُ البحث تحليلاً للعوامل الاجتماعية والنفسية مع توظيف الرمز ، سعياً وراء الربط بين الشكل والمضمون . والتَزَمَتْ الدراسة بالمنهج التحليلي الذي يقوم على رصد القوى الفاعلة في النص ، وتصنيفها إلى علاقات ثم تحليلها وفق النموذج العاملي قبل توظيف المعطيات الاجتماعية والنفسية ؛ للكشف عن الأبعاد المتوارية لشخصيات النص . أما عن إسهام البحث في حقل الدراسات الأدبية ، فقد سعيتُ في دراستي للربط بين البنية السطحية المتمثلة في دراسة النموذج العاملي، وبين البنية العميقة من خلال الربط بين المستوى الشكلي مع الحقول المعرفية مثل : علم الاجتماع ، وعلم النفس ؛ لتسير الدراسة وفقاً لذلك في خطين متقاطعين ، يمثل النص نقطة التقائهما . The study objective is to analyze the factor pattern in the novel of Effects, in order to monitor its reactions with such analysis, to define effective powers which contribute in forming events. The problem is that factor analysis after study of texts form, is not axially penetrated in the text depth, therefore I implemented analysis of social and psychological factors with utilization of symbol, to obtain shape and content. The study committed to analytical method which is based on monitoring of active powers in the text, and categorized into relations, then analyze it according to factor pattern before use of social and psychological of data, to disclose hidden ranges of text characters. As for contribution of the research in literary studies filed, I have aimed in my study to link between surface structure represented in study of factor pattern and deep structure through connecting form level with knowledge field such as: sociology, psychology, for leading the study accordingly in crossed lines, text resembles the junction thereof.

Jane Austen e o fenômeno da autoria-zumbi em Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, is a literary mashup, the fragmentation procedure of a classic work to graft elements of contemporary pop culture. One of the main questions raised by the novel involves the game of palimpsest inherent to its authorship, since the work was produced through the writing of a dead author (Austen) and a living author (Grahame-Smith). However, it should be noted that the English novelist of the regency period had already experienced intricate dynamics for the attribution of authorship to her own works when it was first published. In this context, the present article analyzes the game between living author and dead letter (or between living work and dead writer), so remarkable in the artistic collaboration that generated Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

SOCIAL CLASS IN BRITISH SOCIETY IN JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

This study deals with social class in British society in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.  The objectives of this study were to find out the impacts of social class toward british society based on the novel Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and to describe  social class reflected toward british society in that novel. The study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were dialogues and narration in Pride and Prejudice novel. The analysis of this study was based on Marxist’s concept (1995:25). The findings of this study were (1) two impacts of social class toward british society found in Pride and Prejudice novel, they were pride and prejudice (2) three types of social classes which were reflected, such as power, wealth, and status. 

Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext

Building on recent findings in the field of fan fiction studies, I claim that Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman is indirectly influenced by three cultural phenomena which centre around Jane Austen and her work. Aidan’s fan fiction text stays close to the spirit of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice because she “reimagines” the novel according to the interpretive conventions of the Republic of Pemberley, a fan community. These conventions demand respect for Austen and her novels because they are shaped by the broader, cultural conventions of Janeitism and Austen criticism. Similarly, Aidan’s text is more individualistic and “Harlequinesque” than Austen’s novel, because the Republic allows writers to reproduce the cultural reading which underlies BBC / A&E’s adaptation of Austen’s novel.

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Feminism is Love: Structural, Romantic, and Marxist-Feminist Themes in Pride and Prejudice and Les Misérables

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Pride and Prejudice Marxist Theory

According to Marxist theory, money and the economy are the driving forces behind society. This theory suggests that changes in modes of production and class conflict influence all social and historical transformations within a society. Additionally, Marx believed that the ruling class not only controls society’s material resources but also dominates the intellectual means of production. They promote their ideas as the only rational, ideal, and universal beliefs in order to maintain their hegemony. Despite Jane Student writing Pride and Prejudice earlier, English society was still bound by class expectations during that period.

The text examines societal issues through social satire using social caricatures in the form of Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine De Burgh. Its plot is primarily focused on social class. In addition to delving into the class of different characters, the novel also explores their modes of production and the ways in which they attained their positions. Lady Catherine De Burgh and Mr. Dared belong to the landed aristocracy, while Mr. Collins and Mr. Phillips are part of the bourgeoisie class. The Gardners are mentioned as well among the characters.

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Bentley and The Lucas achieved their social standing through respectable professions. In the novel, Mrs. Bennett personifies Mar’s belief in social status and economic stability. Her main objective is to marry off her daughters to wealthy men from high class backgrounds. This is why Mr. Bentley’s visit to Netherworld causes her great excitement, leading her to continuously urge Mr. Bennett to invite him for dinner. Likewise, throughout the book, all the characters are obsessed with each other’s wealth and social standing. For example, Charlotte Lucas agrees to marry Mr.

The proposal made by Collins is influenced by his decent income and respectable status in society. Similarly, Elizabeth’s romantic feelings towards Dared are connected to his social power. Her admiration for Dared begins when she visits Pembroke and witnesses the extent of his social influence. Additionally, Mrs. Hurst chooses to marry a lazy man who only seeks pleasure in eating, drinking, and gambling because he represents a higher social position rather than financial wealth. Jane Austen also portrays the Marxist concept of the ruling class in this text.

Lady Catherine, a member of the aristocracy, holds firm to the belief in a social hierarchy that determines one’s fortune and destiny. She believes her position entitles her to have her desires met and expects “gratitude” from Elizabeth because she invited her to her house and was “kind” enough to meet her. Lady Catherine is taken aback when Elizabeth contradicts her. Lady Catherine’s snobbish, boastful, and haughty behavior, which is fitting for the aristocracy, causes Collins to act in a subservient manner towards her. He recognizes that she is of a much higher rank than him and feels obligated to act accordingly towards his superiors.

Later in the text, Lady Catherine is unable to accept Dared and Elizabeth’s relationship because she believes that Dared marrying someone of lower rank will diminish the prestige of her aristocratic lineage. This highlights the concept of class inequality and the perception of certain social classes being superior or inferior. When Mr. Dared is introduced, he is depicted as arrogant and distant, with his excessive pride stemming from his awareness of his social status.

As a member of a higher social class, Dared is supposed to be respected by lower-class families like the Bennetts, while Elizabeth is expected to show him proper honor, which she somewhat resists doing. Now, Elizabeth faces insolence from Lady Catherine, Miss Bentley, and Mrs. Hurst due to her social status and predetermined class beliefs. The concept of the ruling class’s control over society becomes clear through Mr. Dairy’s influence over Hickman regarding money in exchange for an agreement to marry Lydia.

Due to their upbringing in an upper-class society, the Bennett family possesses an illusion of power within their characters. They enjoy the freedom to make their own decisions and do as they please, with the exception of being controlled by higher authorities such as the Bentleys, Dared, and Lady Catherine. Jane Austen portrays class, economy, and social status as the key driving forces in her novel. Consequently, Pride and Prejudice revolves around patterns of behavior and thinking that align with Marx’s ideals.

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Feminism In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice

Men disdain women's position and ideas throughout history. Women in society are always oppressed by men as men have more power than women in every field of life. For example, in literature, men were the power in the eighteenth century also called Enlightenment age. This is because there was no equality between women and men. Women weren't supposed to write a novel because that was seen unfavorable, even women couldn't publish it. Rather than writing and publishing, women had no rights to vote, divorce, or child custody. Patriarchal society oppressed them. Men could earn money, but women couldn't. Male writers who held all the power dominated literary. Gender equality has been just a word for a patriarchal society. However, few things were changed at the end of the eighteenth century that directly affects gender equality by Mary Wollstonecraft's essay A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Feminism is the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. It is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy (Encyclopaedia Britannica). But in 1792 there was no term such as feminism. She wrote her essay because she was tired of man's oppression. On A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft mentioned: "To become worthy of respect, women must use their understandings; there is no other basis for independence of character." (35) shows she was against the patriarchal society and masculine culture. Hot2

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