pride and prejudice

             Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written, critics consider Pride
             and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book;
             in it's character descriptions, imagery, but mostly in it's conversations
             between characters. Her novels were not only her way of entertaining people but
             it was also a way to express her opinions and views on what surrounded her and
             affected her. Her novels were like editorials. Austen uses a variety of comic
             techniques to express her own view on characters, both in her book and in her
             society that she lived in. We, the readers are often the object of her ridicule,
             and Austen makes the readers view themselves in a way which makes it easy for
             the reader to laugh at themselves. She introduces caricatures and character
             foils to further show how ridiculous a character may be. Pride and Prejudice
             has many character foils to exaggerate a characters faults or traits. Austen
             also uses irony quite often to inform the readers on her own personal opinions.
             The comic techniques caricatures, irony, and satire, not only helped to provide
             humor for Austen's readers, but they also helped Austen to give her own personal
             When an action is exaggerated on stage by an actor, it becomes all the
             more noticeable to the audience. An author can exaggerate a character in order
             to make fun of them. Austen exaggerates many of her characters and therefore
             makes caricatures of them in order to emphasize their ridiculousness. Mrs.
             Bennet is such a character. Her extremely unpleasant manner and reactions
             causes readers to delight in the situations which Mrs. Bennet places herself
             into. Mrs. Bennet's harsh tongue and simple mind causes the reader to laugh,
             because it is so exaggerated that the reader thinks that such a person cannot
             exist. Mr. Collins is another exaggerated character in the novel. But would
             such characters seem humorous without some...

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