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

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
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.

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

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-19
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
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.

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

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
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 reveal 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

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Barry
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice

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.

scholarly journals A literary work as self-reflection of the author: Why and how it is manifested

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Idha Nurhamidah ◽  
Sugeng Purwanto ◽  
Nur Ekaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Time Reading

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.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Pride and Prejudice from Structuralist Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Jinhua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Structure ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Structuralist Approach ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
Language Content

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.

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

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Nuria Dhotul Janah ◽  
Siti Tarwiyah
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Functional Expression ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Data Collection Technique

<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

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Nijhawan
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The One ◽  
Gurinder Chadha

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.

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

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Ivoneide Soares dos Santos de Jesus ◽  
Vinícius Carvalho Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Artistic Collaboration

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.

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

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Andrea Putri ◽  
Syamsul Bahri ◽  
Rita Suswati
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

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

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veerle Van Steenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
The Republic

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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