Jane Austen (1775-1817)

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Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Evaluation of her art

• Seldom has the novel been conceived with such
  deliberate and successful art as in the novels of
  Jane Austen

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Her art

• 1. a classical precision of structure,
• (which is manipulated through incidents exactly
  defined) in realism.
• 2. the gift of phrase
• humorous, illuminating, economical, through
  which all is related, so that each incident can
  be enjoyed like that in a drama .
• 3. a gift of dialogue

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Her art

• She deals with her characters with intensity yet
  with detachment, without sentimentalism.
• Her knowledge of mens behaviour was limited.
• There are no extremely noble heroes and heroines,
  nor hateful villains egoism is the dominant vice
  of human beings no passion in her novels.

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Plot of her novels

• The central plot of her six novels an eligible
  young man comes into a village and eventually
  secures the most suitable wife

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Her fictional world

• Her fictional world She called her work small
  square two inches of vory
• country gentlemen and ladies together with snobs,
  bores and social climbers, three or four
  families in a village.

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Her fictional world

• She wrote about parish life with calls, walks,
  picnics, conversations, parties, balls, marriages
  .Snobbery, smugness, condescension, and lack of
  consideration are all held to our scorn

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Pride and Prejudice (1813)

• Characters
• Mrs. Bennet, Collins (the sycophantic clergyman),
  the imperious great lady Catherine de Bourgh,
  Elizabeth, the clever, gay young woman whose
  prejudice is matched with the pride of Darcy, the
  aristocrat who conceals a goodness of heart
  beneath a haughty manner.

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Questions concerning the excerpts

• comment on
• 1.the beginning sentence it is a truth
  universally acknowledged..
• irony, humor,periodic sentence etc.
• 2. Mrs Bennets CharacterMr Bennets character
• 3.English society (e.g. Womens position as
  reflected by the excerpts)
• Style of Jane Austen