My glimpses of Jane Austen Essay

Inspite of my acquaintance with the works of many great writers, Austens cleans have fascinated me much more than the others .I feel greatly triumphant to note that the great Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson placed both the ogre of English Literature, William Shakespe are and Jane Austen on the same pedestal. What Shakespeare achieved through his 37 plays and 154 sonnets, Austen accomplished with her half dozen apologues Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, self-respect and Prejudice and some minor works same Lady Susan, The Watsons which is highly commendable. Less consider of novels she wrote but great was her proceeding is what one can say most Jane Austen. What is so especial(a) about Austen that she topped the list of writers of her sequence? What makes her different from her contemporaries ? What are the special features of her novels and what makes them remarkable are some of the general queries . This paper will set out f orth some of my views with special emphasis on her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice.Having been groomed in a scholarly family Austens success as a writer may not seem phenomenal . numerous may label Austens achievement as mere mountain or good spate . however there is much that contributes to the prodigious reputation of the writer . Unlike her predecessors or contemporaries who tried their hand in various leaps of literature it is noteworthy that Austen prospered through the sole literary form the novel .As one browses through her six novels one will emphatic aloney note some striking aspects which are coherent in all of them. Austen might have chosen for her subject the restricted amicable invigoration she had and thus all the six novels share similar features. Yet never do the novels cause boredom and each one of them is interesting in its own way .In fact she has a tremendous capacity to protract the interest of the reader from the beginning till the end. Apropos the less number of novels she wrote, it is more of a question of quality vs quantity.SOME ASPECTS OF HER NOVELS* Austen is the exponent of the social life of the sophisticated society of her age. Her novels chiefly depict the social life of the early decades of nineteenth century.* Austen wrote essentially domestic fiction. Hence domestic face-to-face business form the heart and soul of her novels.* Women occupy a truly alpha position in her novels . Austens novels are famous for their vivacious heroines who come through more prominence than the heroes .She lays bare before us the feminine point with great precision.* The themes of mania ,courtship, marriage , elopement, and love for propertykeep recurring. Ballrooms surface the way for courtship. Matchmaking was the birth right of every arrest. Falling in love was considered a gateway to marriage. Attachment was essentially artificial, bound by self-centered motives. Only males inherited property and so women had to marry to gain fiscal security. In a family where there was no male to inherit ,the soil was to be transferred to the ladys husband . A man was judged merely through his social status. Thus a man lacking fortune always preferred to marry a lady with good fortune. These are some of the ideas, which form the backbone for Austens novels.* Austens style is easy and lucid, but appeals to the intellect. Henry Austen in his Biographical Notice wrote Everything came immerseed from her penitentiary for on all subjects she had ideas as clear as her expressions were well chosen * As said earlier Austen dealt with similar subjects in her novels but had individualist approach towards each of them. She made use of embellishments much(prenominal) as wit, wit and irony which give her novels a brilliant effect.* Austen aimed at perfect finish as far as characterization was c at a timerned . While pointing at the meritorious qualities of her protagonists Austen doesnt fail to expose the follies of th e men and women who posed to choke to the elegant class of the society . She artistically handled the affectation and hypocrisy of the speed class . People faced problems due to their own shortcomings.* Another big aspect of her novels is the opening lines which set the tone of the novel .It is a law universally acknowledged that a single man in will power of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife -The opening line of Pride and Prejudice hints the witty and dry tone of the novel.PRIDE AND PREJUDICEPride and Prejudice is Austens shell loved book, as she claimed it to be brilliant and light. The novel is at once satirical , witty , ironical and humorous .It was originally titled archetypical Impressions for the novel centers around the impressions of the people about each other at their first meeting which turn out to be wrong and facile . However Austen later chose the title Pride and Prejudice, more appropriate, for the novel overly deals with the consequence of the cha racters impressions, that is their rob or prejudice.Though Austen wrote quintet other good novels, this particular one is considered her chef doeuvre. The novel gained high gear because it penetrates deep into the military man mind. All the characters in the novel are higher up ground and their prototypes can even be found in the coeval society . Austens skilful handling of the character sketches alone makes it an wondrous work of art.MY NOTES ON PRIDE AND PREJUDICEIn my perspective Austens genius lies in her endeavour to infuse the principles of life in her novels. Her novels overcome the barriers of time, tradition and culture. Subjects relating to real life appeal every one of us, for we diagnose ourselves with the characters and the happenings in the novel. Pride and Prejudice is primarily based on human motives and the conflicts involved in human life. As I turn the pages of the novel everything appears real to me. There is nothing illusory or melodramatic .The charac ters of the novel seem to be my acquaintances in life. It is a marvel that Austen at the age of twenty-one mirrored with exactness the philosophy of life, seeking refuge in common themes like love and marriage. This sole novel is an evidence for Austens fully developed intellect and her matured personality.Human tendency is such that we initiate trouble and end solving it ourselves. Attitude plays an indispensable division in life. Negative and positive attitudes bring results accordingly. Reversal of wrong attitudes and visualisation of things in the correct perspective alone pave way for a happy living. This forms the basis of the novel.Attitudes precede outcomes. Elizabeth dislikes Darcy in their first meeting itself. She is disfavor against him for his pride. Above all Elizabeths aversion is due to a personal rift for she says, I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not check mine and this attitude of hers prevents her from comprehending Darcys true nature. This is ve ry common in life. We hate people and deny acknowledging their good qualities just because they offend us in one way or the other. Elizabeths bad opinion about Darcy creates such circumstances that she is always against him until she reverses her attitude. When Elizabeth changes her mind, Darcy also transforms which does her good.As Elizabeth notes, Darcy is very proud of his wealth, status and everything else .His money made him look good. But his pride swal gloomyed his good qualities. Darcy mingles only with inferior people to proclaim his superiority. Thats why he chooses Elizabeth, who is beneath him as his prospective wife and not the rich, gorgeous Miss Bingley. However Darcy loves Elizabeth only for her personality. His snobbish attitude creates trouble for him. The aftermath he realizes his mistake and stoops to conquer his lover everything turns alright.Mrs. bennet is another such character whose attitude plays an important role in her life. Mrs. Bennets desire to get h er five daughters married is nothing wrong. Every mother has the wish to see her daughter well settled in life. But Mrs. Bennets approach and attitude turns things wrong for her. She devises cheap plans to acquire husbands for her daughters. While machinating to bring Jane and Bingley together, she forces Jane to go on a horse on a rainy day (when the carriage is available) to Mr. Bingleys house so that she may get wet, fall ill and stay with the Bingleys for a duplicate of days. Mrs. Bennet thought that she was creating an opportunity for Jane but it results in the Bingley sisters thinking low of her family. Though they like Jane they reject her because of her mothers uncouth doings .Mrs. Bennet foils her own daughters prospects of getting married because of her thoughtlessness. Hoping to come through the army officers for her daughters, Mrs. Bennet gives Lydia and Kitty too much freedom. This results in Lydia runnel away with the rogue called Wickham .It is not Lydias elopeme nt, which hurts Mrs. Bennet but the consequences. Mrs. Bennet finds Lydias running away distressing but her marriage pleasing. She just realizes that Lydia is her parallel and she has a share in her daughters unashamed conduct. Never does she accept her follies unlike her husband. On the other hand she blames others unnecessarily. in the end Mrs. Bennet gets three of her daughters married which may be due to her persistent attempts.Manner and behavior is something purely external of an individual. It is attitude, which counts as far as moulding of ones character is concerned, is what I feel is the put across conveyed by Austen in her novel.