Essays about: "Elizabeth Bennet"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the words Elizabeth Bennet.

  1. 11. Mary Bennet : The most contradictory girl in the neighbourhood

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Jehona Lajqi; [2008]
    Keywords : Pride and Prejudice; Mary Bennet; function; character; caricature; minor character.;

    Abstract : Critics of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice often tend to focus on the central characters but focus in this essay will be on the middle sister Mary Bennet. Author Alex Woloch claims in his book The One vs. the Many that Mary’s main function in the novel is to be a contrast to Elizabeth in order to fulfill her as a character. READ MORE

  3. 12. Eighteenth-Century Female Conduct in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – An Analysis of Elizabeth Bennet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Taavo; [2008]
    Keywords : conduct manuals; behaviour; eighteenth century; women in literature; virtue; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written in a time when courtesy literature was a highly popular literary genre. This genre embodied conduct manuals, which conveyed several viewpoints on what was to be regarded as the proper behaviour and manner of a sophisticated young woman. READ MORE

  4. 13. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Christina Lindsmyr; [2006]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; Elizabeth Bennet; Heroine;

    Abstract : Two hundred years later it still affects us .... READ MORE