novel analysis

ENG 1120AA/Fiamengo

Term Essay

Due: Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Length: 1800-2000 words (7-8 double-spaced pages)

MLA format, with numbered pages, stapled, an original title, and a Works Cited list

Directions: in a unified and coherent essay, address one of the following essay topics. You will be graded on the quality of your insights and your ability to marshal evidence to support an argumentative thesis, as well as on the clarity and correctness of your writing at the sentence and paragraph level. Be sure to construct your discussion in the present tenses, write clearly and accurately, and integrate quotations grammatically into your sentences.

Please choose the following topic to write an essay for 2000 words The novel mentioned is Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

#2. What do Jane Austen’s letters to her niece Fanny (Appendix C of Persuasion) reveal about her ideal of marriage? What qualities matter in a mate, and what sentiments should accompany an engagement, according to Austen? How are these qualities and attitudes towards marriage manifest (or not manifest) in the various couples we meet in Persuasion?