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Jane Austen - Coggle Diagram
Jane Austen
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Style and themes
Style
- Frequent irony
- third-person narration, omniscient narrator
- complex, psychologically deep characters
- focus on the ordinary events of the upper class
- world of the country gentry
Themes
- main theme: love and marriage
- status, wealth, decorum, gossip, flirtations,...
- parenthood
- the obligation to control one's emotional states
The marriage market
- Takes place in London, Bath and some seaside resorts
- Marriage was the only means for a woman to improve her status
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
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