Essays about: "Jane Austen"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 62 essays containing the words Jane Austen.

  1. 11. The Shameless Little Sister : A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Conduct of Lydia Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emilia Moberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Pride and Prejudice; Lydia Bennet; Psychoanalysis; Marriage; Pleasure Principle; Id; Ego; Super-Ego;

    Abstract : In Jane Austen’s renowned Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, the reader encounters love and marriage in the British middle-class during the nineteenth century. While the main focus of the novel is the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the reader also encounters the youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. READ MORE

  3. 12. Blinded by Angels, Monsters, Mad Women, or Mothers : The Struggling Break from Patriarchy in Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Satvinder Sue Munde; [2021]
    Keywords : Patriarchy; Hegemony; Misogynistic; Feminism; Gynocritics;

    Abstract : This study attempts to shed light on the psychological mindsets of two minor femalecharacters in two fictional stories, Lady Capulet, the mother in Romeo and Juliet (1597), and Mrs Bennet, the mother in Pride and Prejudice (1813). The stories are set centuries apart by two different English authors. READ MORE

  4. 13. FEMINISM AND ELIZABETH A Comparison Between Elizabeth Bennet and Secondary Characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jenny Malmborg; [2020-09-22]
    Keywords : feminism; women in literature;

    Abstract : While feminism in Pride and Prejudice has been a subject for discussion for many decades, in this essay I aim to show how Elizabeth Bennet’s feminism is shown through the comparison with three secondary characters. This essay will examine the characters with the help of a narratological approach that shows what main trait the characters have and how this is used to explain them further concerning feminism and Elizabeth. READ MORE

  5. 14. Vanity, Grief and Mary Musgrove : A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Jane Austen's Persuasion

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anneli Olsson Hagman; [2020]
    Keywords : Persuasion; Jane Austen; Mary Musgrove; psychoanalytic literary theory; grief; Freud; defence-mechanisms; repression; projection; unconsious;

    Abstract : The novel Persuasion by Jane Austen stands out from her canon partly due to the explicit reflection of society’s changing view of the British nobility in the early 19th century. The shallowness and alarming lack of responsibility displayed by the Elliot family is a representation of the growing opinion of the landed gentry being useless and not fit to lead the nation. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Gaze In Fantasy Literature : A critical analysis of the novel A Game of Thrones

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Henrik Oresten; [2020]
    Keywords : A Game of Thrones; Feminist criticism; Gaze theory;

    Abstract : Syftet med denna studie är att utforska den manliga och kvinnliga blicken i George R.R. Martins fantasinovell, A Game of Thrones (1996). Jag föreslår att skillnader i hur den manliga och kvinnliga blicken betraktar sitt objekt, kan avslöjas genom kritisk analys av kvinnliga huvudkaraktären Sansa Stark. READ MORE