Pride And Prejudice : Essay

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Write an essay trying to answer the following question. You should try and quote the book and/or the movie to support your point.

Elizabeth Bennet is a modern heroine in an obsolete society. To what extend do you agree with this statement?

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[...] * A contemporary of Jane Austen, the French author Stendhal said, about Molière : « Ce grand peintre de l'homme tel qu'il est ». We could quite say the same about J. Austen and the way she depicted the english women of her time, adding though that she went further in her vision, since she not only perfectly described women in the highly coded, hierarchised and archaic british society, but she also highlighted modern rebels as the heroines of a society which, to her, needed to move forward. [...]

[...] Thus, an heroine is infinitely quixotic, and such a definition fits very well with Elizabeth Bennet. She is a woman full of dreams and energy, who is not obsessed by the fact of getting married, and actually prefers to remain single rather than marry someone she doesn't truly love. And here lies her modern dimension as an heroine, for she doesn't mind being the only woman in her family claiming to be a free woman, or even a rebel. Although she is surrounded by women who comply with their parents' will, or with the society's rules, she behaves the way she wants and will never let anybody impose her anything. [...]

[...] Pride And Prejudice. « It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ». This is how the book Pride And Prejudice starts, and we understand from the very beginning that Jane Austen is going to tackle one of her favorite subjects : the relationships between men and women in England's early nineteeth century. With five daughters fit for marriage, Mr and Mrs Bennet hope that one of them will appeal to their new neighbour, the rich Mr Bingley. [...]