Pride and prejudice Essay

The essay is due April 29 before midnight.

Pride & Prejudice is considered as one of the best romantic fiction novels by the eighteenth-century English novelist Jane Austen.

Instructions:

 No 1st or 2nd person pronouns.

Please review the link below:

https://www.slideshare.net/gskeesee/writing-a-literary-analysis

Here are some approaches that you may take regarding the novel:

http://gullibletravel.tripod.com/CriticalApproachesLiterature.htm

Your essay should be 4 to 5 pages (not including your works cited page).

You will need to use the text as well as at least one outside resource.

You may pick from the topics below, or you may choose your own topic to write about regarding P&P, or you may combine topics from the examples below.

You do not have to include a works cited entry for the text, but you will need a works cited page for your outside source.

Your essay should be in MLA format.

You need to follow internal citation rules for MLA format: 

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/

You will be graded on the following:

· Paper set-up-MLA format

· You have a clear thesis statement.

· Your paragraphs have clear topic sentences.

· Your essay is organized and logical.

· You do more than summarize the story. https://writingcenter.appstate.edu/sites/writingcenter.appstate.edu/files/Tips%20for%20Writing%20a%20Lit%20Analysis.pdf

· Your conclusion is solid.

· You have at least one outside source and a works cited page.

Thematic Questions:

· Discuss how Austen addresses women's roles in her society, and decide whether she does something for women, or sentences them to the same fate as every male writer who has come before her.

· The author has frequently employed humor and irony in the story. Differentiate between the two with examples.

· Discuss the novel in terms of society and its impact on the individual.

· This book is Austen's attempt on portraying Elizabeth as a woman of the modern world. How so?

 

 

Text Questions:

· What do you have to say about Ms. Elizabeth's relationship with her family? Is she particularly close to them?

· Discuss Elizabeth's first impression of Mr. Darcy when she comes across him at the ball? Did it change as the story proceeded? If so, how?

· How is Elizabeth different from the rest of her sisters? Is it her outright liberal views and morals or her pride? Explain.

· Mr. Darcy and Caroline Bingley have a clear and rigid concept of what an accomplished woman and wife should be like. What is it?

· Why did Elizabeth reject Mr. Collins when he proposes marriage? Were her parents supportive of her decision? What were the implications of this refusal on their family?

· Throw some light on the Jane-Bingley, Bennet-Darcy relationships in the story.

· Why do you think Elizabeth was not very fond of Lady Catherine de Bourgh? How does Mr. Darcy fit into the picture?

· The author has portrayed Charlotte and Elizabeth as two completely different personalities. What is your perspective on this?