Essays on Jane Austen

In a novel overflowing with misconstrued romance, “Emma” by Jane Austen succeeds in misleading the readers, as well as the actual characters on the matter of who is really in love with whom. Although it is teeming with romantic dialogue, the characters have a tendency to misunderstand confessions of love, as well as comments made…

Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, edited by Devoney Looser, is a collection of original essays designed to take the measure of current feminist thinking about Austen and to establish, as it were, a kind of feminist context for that thinking. In “Privacy, Privilege, and ‘Poaching’ in Mansfield Park,” the penultimate essay, Ellen Gardiner observes…

AuthorJane AustenTitleEmmaPublisherEveryman’s Library Cop. London. 1991First published in 1816MottoThe book does not have a motto. I chose this book because I read Pride and Prejudice and I absolutely loved it. My mother told me Jane Austen wrote another book like it called Emma’, and I decided to try it. I expected the story to be…

According to Ugo Betti, “’Mad’ is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.” Everyone is obsessed with something, and that one thing can control someone’s thoughts and actions; whether it’s a new song on the radio, the newest style of clothing, or their favorite celebrity….

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”-Jane Austen. Jane Austen has the power to say this because she is known as one of the best-loved English novelists (World Book). If a person does not find enjoyment from reading one of her books, they…

Abstract Jane Austen is known the world over for her novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.  She died many years ago yet she remains to be one of the most popular authors to date, and her books are still being studied in literature classes around the world.  What is it about…

In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, a central theme of her novel involves how the system of social class determines whether a loving couple can marry. Persuasion focuses on Anne’s struggle to marry Captain Wentworth after rejecting him eight years ago. The conflict of the novel stems from the event where Lady Russell persuades Anne to turn…

Jane Austen’s best selling novel, Pride and Prejudice, was written between 1796 and 1797 and is set in the nineteenth century. To a reader, the title ‘Pride and Prejudice’ may give the impression that the novel is just about pride and prejudice, but in fact, the novel is about much more. It’s about matters of…

In Jane Student’s Pride and Prejudice, the theme of appearance versus reality Is recurrent. Austin seeks to prove that often one’s appearance hides one’s true character. This thematic concept Is clearly evident In the case of Mr.. Dairy and Mr.. Hickman and how they appear to Elizabeth Bennett. From her first impressions of both Mr…..

Irony Is the art of expressing two meanings simultaneously; the obvious surface meaning the majority will regard as the only meaning and on a deeper profounder meaning which Lies behind the obvious. The tension created by this ambivalence can be and has been put to a variety of uses. Ironies abound in Shakespeare, so do…