pride and prejudice: satire
Booth, Bradford A. Pride and Prejudice: Text, Background, Criticism. Harcourt, Brace and World Press: California, 1963. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Airmont Publishing Co., Inc: New York, Jane Austen is often noted by critics for her strong satirical angle towards upper-middle class ways of life in the late eighteenth century. Pride and Prejudice is no exception to this. In this particular work Austen attacks the society's condoning of marriage for money and social standing. Austen does this by magnifying the absurdness of heir attitude toward marriage and the customs they practice. Austen does this best when she sets up the first "gathering scene" in the novel as a ball. This gives Austen the chance to demonstrate some
Pride and Prejudice is unquestionably a social satire at its best. All that the Bennet sisters mother is concerned about is finding rich men to marry them. Bingley and is introduced to all the principal people in the room. She rambles on and on about Jane and how she danced with Mr. This makes the reader take him less serious and even laugh at how ridiculous he sounds. She is not in any of the dialogue, but after the ball she begins to talk to her husband about how wonderful the evening went. This first scene is in chapter three when a ball is held and all the young eligible bachelors and young, unmarried ladies are given the oppurtunity to interact with one another and perhaps even find their future wife or husband. The first character that Austen begins to look at satirically is Mr. and was looked at with great admiration" and not long after as "the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world".
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