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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Jane Austen and Women's Emancipation


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1.- What degrees of emancipation and/or conservative reinforcement of 18th-century family values does Elizabeth Bennett's marriage to Mr. Darcy support?
In those times, women would usually marry people of a high class instead of a mid-class, they were very influenced about this, and the main goal for a women would be getting married, but she was proud of herself and lived the way she wanted, not the way everyone else wanted.

2.-What attitudes to marriage does Pride and Prejudice convey? What other options did Elizabeth Bennett have?
For a woman, the most important thing is to get married, it is the women identity and professional ideal. She had two options, to marry the one he loved or to marry another man of a higher class.




3.- How does this introduction affect your reading and approach to the novel?
It helps us understand the context of the novel, its setting and the main themes.

4.- How could the social circumstances and contexts of Pride and Prejudice apply to different cultures and contexts today?
I think that Pride and Prejudice has and will always been present in human life.

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