The individual and society is a course, which describes the struggle of individuals against social conformity. It discovers the lives of many individuals in our prescribed texts, Pride and Prejudice and A Doll's House. These texts were written in the 19th century, when authors found themselves at odd with their society, becoming questioners rather than critics and satirists. The dominant ways of thinking of the time, in which the texts were composed both reflected and challenge these ideas through the use of beliefs of different characters.
             Context is defined as the external influences which affected a writer during the time, which the text was written. During the 19th century there were immense changes in agriculture, economic management, industrialisation and most importantly, ways of thinking. These changes in the time period, included industrialisation, which led to improved living conditions which then facilitated development of new ideas. Individuals in working classes now began to have a vote. Also due to a diminishing social class gap, the middle class were now the source of values. This period was distinguished by England's growth as an industrial and imperial giant and an increasingly conservatism in society. These new ideas changed the fabric of society. Therefore authors are reacting to a society, which is in itself rapidly changing.
             Simon Langton's 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is representative of England in the nineteenth century, but also of the way in which modern western society interprets Jane Austen's world. The text is primarily concerned with recreating the world as Austen saw it through her novels, however inevitably this representation is coloured by the historical and literary perspectives of the mid 1990's. In this sense what the text chooses to challenge or criticis and what aspects of society it represents in various ways is as much a result of the id...