domingo, 28 de octubre de 2012


Jane Austen and women's emancipation

What this post will be about is basically some questions, about the already mentioned novel "Pride and prejudice", but more specifically, its relation with women's emancipation, as said in the title. The questions are the following ones:

1. What degrees of emancipation and/or conservative reinforcement of 18th-Century family values does Elizabeth Bennet's marriage to Mr. Darcy support?

2. What attitudes to marriage does 'Pride and Prejudice' convey? What other options did Elizabeth Bennet have?
3. How does the introduction made by Vivien Jones affect your reading and approach to the novel?
4. How could the social circumstances and contexts of 'Pride and Prejudice' apply to different cultures and contexts today?
Answers:
1-Emancipation in this case is showed by Elizabeth's attitude 
over this marriage. He wanted to live her life as a free person, just like men did.
2-As we already have been studying, women in that time where supossed to marry "their best choice", or in other words, a man who would be able to give her a wealthy life. The idea of the author is to show the opposite, that women can stand by themselves, with no need of an arranged marriage. Basically because it is written under a feminist point of view.

3- It tells you what the novel is about, the context, the themes that are covered, and somehow, it also shows you that what you are about to read is written under a feminist point of view.

4- As I mentioned it on a post before, everybody can feel identified with the problems that characters from the novel must encourage, because these ones are related with emotions and feelings that belong to humans.

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