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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 978 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pride and Prejudice
Going once, going twice, SOLD to the wealthiest and most eligible bachelor in town. In a society based on monetary values, many marriages came to being in this manner and many marriages did not occur because of this monetary priority. The social views and values of early nineteenth century aristocratic England revolved around who had money and who did not producing attitudes both materialistic and self-involved. Jane Austen saw these fallacies in society. Her novel …showed first 75 words of 978 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 978 total…of how society shaped people.
Each character is a "child" of its society--born and bred to act as they do and treat others as part of a “pecking order.” Pride and Prejudice explores a society that thrived off of money and status and mirrors people’s flaws in hopes that they would notice and correct them. Her mirroring of the early nineteenth century presents a whimsical, light picture of a problem that needed fixing.
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