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Review of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Title: Review of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 528 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Review of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Jane Austen's Persuasion depicts a young woman's struggles with love, friendship and family. Anne Elliot who is pretty, intelligent and amiable, had some years before been engaged to a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but had been persuaded by her trusted friend Lady Russell to break off the engagement, because of his lack of fortune and a misunderstanding of his easy nature. The breach had brought great unhappiness to Anne. Pre-Victorian England offers a romantic …showed first 75 words of 528 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 528 total…those shallow and duplicitous qualities of her father, her cousin and others is striking but always subtle. Anne is a mature and independent heroine who frees herself from the authority of her genealogically obsessed father through her bond with other female characters, however imperfect, such as Lady Russell and the remarkable Mrs. Croft.
In this, Jane Austen's last complete work, satire and ridicule take a milder form, and the tone is more grave and tender.
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