Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Jane Austen’s Socially Unconventional Female Characters in “Emma,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility”. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 7 page paper which examines how Austen’s main female characters show resistance to the social mainstream through their actions, beliefs and behaviors. No additional sources are used.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGaustwom.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
of the feminine ideal that had existed in Great Britain since Medieval times were still, unfortunately, very much alive and well in the early nineteenth century. Women were little
more than property to be sold into marriage to a socially prominent suitor. Once married, these women were little more than adornments on their husbands arms, almost like pieces
of costume jewelry. Women had no identity of their own; they were merely male appendages whose only purpose in life was to look attractive, marry well, and bless the
patriarchy with many children. For Jane Austen, who remained happily unmarried throughout her life, nothing could have annoyed her more. Within the popular literary genre known as Romanticism,
she would satirize the stereotypical roles of women in society through defiant female characters. In three of her most successful novels, Emma (1816), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Sense
and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen would create strong female characters that were not only memorable, but also more than willing to depart from the tradition that had limited their attitudes
and choices. In Emma, the twenty-year-old protagonist Emma Woodhouse becomes Jane Austens strategically placed poison pen. As she sits pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks
and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her beloved society, are portrayed as shallow and transparent. She befriends orphaned Harriet Smith out
of a sense of obligation, but when Harriet decides to marry Robert Martin, a young man Emma describes as "a completely gross, vulgar farmer - totally inattentive to appearances, and
thinking of nothing but profit and loss" (Austen 29), her benefactor is mortified. Through Emmas attitudes about this apparent mismatch, Austen is able to explore how the social world
...