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This 3 page paper discusses the compression which exists between what the characters do and what they feel inside. This duel nature is exampled from three specific quotes from Austen's Pride and Prejudice utilizing Ghent's critique of the English novel. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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them seriously. However, critics keep writers honest, it must be said; they often see with the emotional distance that the reader and author lack. And given this, the critic often
makes the author a better writer. Dorothy Van Ghent published a book called Form and Function. In it she critiqued many novels which have since become classics. Jane Austens Pride
and Prejudice is one of them. Her analysis seems to capture that mixture of surface and sub-surface themes. A brief summary of the book shows an ambitious mother seeking
to make worthy matches for her unmarried daughters in a town just outside of London. Through a series of events her oldest daughter, Elizabeth finds true love. At the same
time, Austen exposes many of the trappings of her day and plays within the context of her medium, with the notions of marriage, life, love, and of womens rights.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"(Austen, li. 1). Elizabeth utters this when she
realizes that her mother is scheming to send her and her sisters to the home of Mr. Bingley, in hopes that he will marry one of them. Elizabeth on the
surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that they are being paraded about like bat for
an animal to gnaw on. Then, the one man that she finds interesting to speak to, snubs her all together. This comment about a rich man being in want
of a good wife can be read in many ways. First, ironically, it can be read as many take it: the man is rich and as such is an eligible
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