...Pride and Prejudice Before Reading 8 TALKING ABOUT THE COVER • Can you tell from these two faces which character will be proud, and which will be prejudiced? • In your opinion, which of the two characteristics – pride or prejudice – would be more damaging to a relationship? • Which of these two characters do you expect to feel more sympathy for in the story? 9 10 11 12 BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 108) ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING Encourage discussion about types of pride and prejudice, and speculation about the kind of story students are expecting to read. Do not tell students if their guesses are right. They will find out as they read that the best answers are 1b, 2a, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e and 3g. walk across the muddy fields to visit Jane’s sick-bed at Netherfield Park. Mr Collins to Mrs Bennet, referring to the fact that he might propose to one of her daughters, to make amends for inheriting their house when Mr Bennet dies. Elizabeth to Mr Wickham, about Mr Darcy. Mr Wickham to Elizabeth, about the post of rector of Pemberley which Mr Darcy had failed to give him. Elizabeth to Mr Darcy, mocking him for his lack of conversation, by suggesting to him the kind of boring comment that he should be making. Mr Darcy to Elizabeth, about Wickham and whether he was able to keep the friends that he found easy to make. BEFORE READING CHAPTER 5 Encourage speculation and discussion, but do not confirm or deny students’ guesses at this stage...
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...1) Jane Austen * Biography Jane Austen is one of the most read writers in England. She was born on the 17th of December in 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, in a large family with six brothers and one sister, which formed part of the Landed Gentry (well-born and well-bred people of high social class in England). Jane went on with her education by herself by reading books which her father, who supported her a lot, gave her from his large library. Her family produced plays and Jane Austen took part in these. Most of them were comedies which gave Jane the opportunity to develop her comic and satirical senses. During her lifetime she was not famous because she wanted to keep anonymity. So, instead of writing her name on the books, she just put "by a lady". It is only in the 19th century that she got famous when her nephew wrote A memoir of Jane Austen. This book even included some of her writings that were never published before. She never got married, although she was once proposed to and she never had any children. During the year of 1816, Jane Austen’s health became worse and she died in July in 1817 at the age of 41 years old. But the exact reasons of her death remain vague, some say it was Addison syndrome, other say Hodgkin’s disease, there are several hypotheses. The famous English author is buried in the North aisle of Winchester Cathedral. * Main works She started by writing poems when she was 12 years old. By the time she was 18, she started creating longer and...
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...Description To explore your understanding and share it with others is the purpose of an interpretation and an analysis. Yet, even though we create our own personal meanings out of a literary work, we must also learn to reach an objective understanding. You have to be able to use evidence from the text itself to support any points you are making. A literary analysis explains what you as a reader see inside a literary work. This automatically requires examples and support from various parts of the text. (Blueprint B v2.0 p. 234) Guidelines | 1. Decide on one of the two books assigned by your teacher. | | 2. Divide your book into three parts. Use one week to read each part. | | 3. Write reading logs as you read your book. There are three of them on the next page, one for each part of your book (beginning, middle, end) | | 4. Create an outline for your essay by using the template below. | | 5. Write your first draft. Follow the instructions closely, Blueprint B, pp. 234-239 | | 6. Do the ”Checkpoints for Revising” on page 239, Blueprint B. | | 7. Receive peer response from a classmate or two. Use the “Peer Response Sheet” and the ”Rubric” below. | | 8. Reflect on your progress so far and ask yourself; “How can I improve this text?” Make notes in your “Self Assessment Sheet” below. | | 9. Improve your text! Turn it into a final draft – 700-1200 words. Remember to use the ”Kulturama Manual of Style". | | 10. Complete the ”Self Assessment Sheet"...
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...replied that he had not. ‘But it is,’ returned she; ‘for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.’ Mr. Bennet made no answer. ‘Do you not want to know who has taken it?’ cried his wife impatiently. ‘YOU want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.’ This was invitation enough. ‘Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his Pride and Prejudice servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.’ ‘What is his name?’ ‘Bingley.’ ‘Is he married or single?’ ‘Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!’ ‘How so? How can it affect them?’ ‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ replied his wife, ‘how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.’ ‘Is that his design in settling here?’ ‘Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he MAY fall in love...
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...33 36 38 40 43 46 48 53 59 65 70 73 80 84 89 This edition copyright © Penguin Books Ltd 1999 Cover design by Bender Richardson White Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Set in ll/14pt Bembo Printed in China SWTC/10 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Jane Goes to London All rights reserved; no part of this publication may he reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Elizabeth Visits Hunsford Lady Catherine de Bourgh Visitors to Rosings Mr Darcy Elizabeth Receives a Letter Elizabeth and Jane Return Home The Regiment Leaves Meryton Pemberley The Bingleys Lydia and Wickham Mr Gardiner Goes to London Published by Pearson Education Limited in association with Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 For a complete list of titles available in the Penguin Readers series please write to your local Pearson...
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...The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Release Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #1342] [Last updated: August 11, 2011] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIDE AND PREJUDICE *** Produced by Anonymous Volunteers, and David Widger PRIDE AND PREJUDICE By Jane Austen Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views...
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...Concept of Self-realization in Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Great Expectations and Lord Jim. The words self-realization is often used in literature to refer to the liberation of an individual from the sense of limitation brought about by identification with conditioned beliefs, opinions, fears, desires, and habits. The main objective of this paper is to show concept of self-realization in Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Great Expectations and Lord Jim. It has also been tried to add some new concepts regarding these novels. Necessary and related information has been collected from various books and internet. Austen's serene world, in Pride and Prejudice which harbours dynamic action, goes unnoticed by the readers who read her novels on the surface level. But the readers who fathom the depths of her creativity can realize that active forces are working, reforming and psychologically molding the characters in her novels. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most famous novels of Thomas Hardy. In this novel we see a tragic end of Tess with an ultimate realization. Great Expectations was one of Dickens’ best-known novels and was written in 1860. Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman and follows the progression of Pip from child to adult; from humble blacksmith to gentleman; from innocence to experience; from rags to riches and on his journey, Pip meets a range of interesting characters, from the comical Wemmick, to the cruel Estella....
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...she refer to the idea as ‘universally acknowledged’ or simply just in reference to Mrs Bennet for thinking so, simultaneously highlighting the questionable concept of their class/period that marriage and money are directly linked. This is interesting for the reader as it sets the tone for much of the novel- and the theme, being courtship and marriage. Whilst it may be true that mothers and daughters see this as ‘truth’, it is unlikely that ‘the single man’ would have entertained the thought. It is the competition for acquiring the man, especially among the mothers with unengaged daughters, which forms much of the humour of the novel later on. With hindsight, it becomes doubly ironic; since Mrs Bennet was indeed correct thinking that Mr Bingley was in want of a wife, the cliché is shown to be a ‘universal truth’. Furthermore, Austen sets the period clearly with the emphasis on wealth and social status ‘he is considered as the rightful property...a single man of large fortune...what a fine thing for our girls!’ It is also interesting to see that Mrs Bennet is the first to speak in the novel. The beginning dialogue introduces the characters of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their seemingly incompatible relationship- using their argument ‘nonsense, how can you talk so!’ and Mrs Bennet’s nagging. It goes on in chapter 1 to reveal that each parent has favourite daughters (Mr Bennet prefers Lizzy whereas his wife favours Jane and Lydia). Though Mr Bennet is amiably more intelligent and witty...
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...Syngenta to reach its goal. 1.0 Task 1 This task contains a great relationship among the structure and culture of the organization. Through this relationship an organization can make them a perfect one for earning profit and to satisfy the employees and customers also. 1.1 Comparing and contrasting different organizational structures and culture for Syngenta. There are different types of organizational structure and culture. Among them 4 points description is given below: Functional structure In this structure Syngenta will choose specific employees for specific people for developing a great relationship with the other organizations during the dealings. This structure indicates a team to work for betterment for that specific task (Case, 2012). Here Syngenta collects specific people for a specific task where individual task is not that much effective. Geographical structure Syngenta divides some employees for particular task mainly where the geographical matter...
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..."Jane Austen: Irony and Authority" Critic: Rachel M. Brownstein Source: Women's Studies 15, nos. 1-3 (1988): 57-70. Criticism about: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775-1817) Nationality: British; English [(essay date 1988) _In the following essay, Brownstein focuses on several of Austen's novels, including Pride and Prejudice, to support her argument that Austen uses irony to convey a "discursive authority" from which women can derive pleasure in a patriarchal society.] It is a truth universally acknowledged, right now, that language is involved in giving and taking both power and pleasure. Whether we begin by asking if the pen is a substitute for the penis, or think about why we read stories of love and adventure, or consider, from any point of view, pornography or psychoanalysis, we end by analyzing ways people please themselves and assert authority over others by using words. (To observe that critics writing about pleasure and power have managed to get what measure of the good stuff they can is to state the merely inevitable.) Claiming that women writers are powerful--i.e. effective and influential--has been a focus of feminist critics concerned to dispute the canon, to rehabilitate forgotten writers, and to revise women's relation to the languages of power. That Jane Austen, unforgotten, canonized, and stunningly authoritative, has been a problem for feminists is not surprising: in the struggle for power between politically radical and conservative critics...
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...wrong which is hard to do. The relationships that show the nature of wrong first impressions are with Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy along with Wickham. The first impressions of Darcy and Wickham are proven wrong throughout with the idea of having the ability to change one’s self. They type of factors that contribute to a first impression include actions done by characters along with manners and appearance. When Darcy is first introduced, it says, “His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.” and describes him as arrogant and undesirable. One of Darcy’s actions that hurts his impression on people, especially Elizabeth, is when his friend Mr. Bingley tells him to dance with a woman and in response, Mr. Darcy says about Elizabeth, “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men,” meaning that he will not waste his time with a woman who has been ignored all night. The effect, caused Elizabeth to feel a sense of disgust and hatred towards Darcy. Another thing that caused Darcy’s bad first impression is through his manners as explained on page 11. “He was looked at with great admiration for about half of the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his...
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...serves as a fundamental literary tool for authors. It enables them to express their themes and views through characters whose words are often inconsistent with their actions, and in situations where the intended result differs from the actual result. Irony works in a clever manner by showing the reader what the author wants to express by making these inconsistencies apparent to the reader, if not to the characters themselves, and exposing it, more often than not, in a satiric fashion. Yet, while irony works with satire, the power it holds for those who wield it well is no laughing matter. Famous writers such as the sardonic H.L. Mencken and Jonathan Swift, a true satiric master, have used irony to promote real, legitimate change. In Swift’s case, his famous piece, “A Modest Proposal,” used extreme satire and irony to promote change in Irish policy. Perhaps the greatest satirist of all time, William Shakespeare used irony in almost every piece he created. In his play Julius Caesar, the speech he has Mark Antony give in which he repeats the phrase “but Brutus is an honorable man” when he is trying to convey the exact opposite serves as a truly timeless example of this literary tool. It is unique in that it does not simply throw the author’s point of view directly in the reader’s face, but rather enables the reader to discover the author’s truth. It makes the statement or idea the author is trying to express much more meaningful and subsequently gives it an evocative undertone to...
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...Outline Thesis: Marriage does not mean the act of uncontrolled passion but a complex engagement between the marrying couple and society. I. Introduction II. The analysis of Elizabeth’s character III. Elizabeth’s views about marriage A. The most realistic marriage—Charlotte’s marriage B. The most ridiculous marriage—Lydia’s marriage C. The most happy marriage—Jane’s marriage D. The most admirable marriage—Elizabeth’s marriage IV. Conclusion Abstract Pride and Prejudice is a very popular novel by Jane Austen and it was read widely all over the world. This novel is written in 1813. We main agronomic characters of the marriage as a typical cases in books, how to influence their marriage value orientation of money. Some people may realize that marriage can provide opportunities of class mobility and financial support; money and class are thus closely connected in their decision of marital partners.If marriage is a castle, but the hero and heroine is like Darcy and Elizabeth such person, so, even a not pleasing to begin their mutual see each other bias, and ultimately willing to be trapped in such a city. The power of love is great, it can let a hate in human love change, can let you cast prejudice, and re-know and accept a person. Key words: Pride and Prejudice money value orientation marriage view ...
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...Running head: HEROINES Heroines Jane Austen- ENG 471 Abstract A heroine is a woman of strong emotional strength, character, moral standard and willpower. A heroine knows what she wants in life and she knows that she will not get their by settling for anything less. In the stories of Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, Fanny Price, and Emma Woodhouse, this was just the case. They fought to overcome obstacles and challenges that they were faced with so that they could live happy and prosperous lives. In their own way they proved to be heroines. Introduction In my opinion, a heroine is a woman with emotional strength, character, moral standard and willpower. A heroine does not have to be the richest, smartest or prettiest, but she does have to have a sense of esteem. A heroine knows what she wants, as well as what she does not want and she knows how to go about getting it in her own way. This is a head strong woman who keeps her priorities in line with realistic measures and the things that will keep them being the strong women that they are. While reading the Jane Austen novels and watching the movies there were several heroines to consider. While they were all carried different situations and outcome when it came to relationships and family, they were all the same in being strong in character and their beliefs. It seemed as if they carried the personal motto: don’t settle for less in the matters of love and relationships and each heroine did just that. The heroines...
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...Economics of setting up a Tennis club clinic This study aimed to study and research on the financial prerequisites of setting up a tennis club. It details the resources needed, procedures followed and criteria adhered to when starting a tennis club. It further expounds on practices to ensure that the club runs profitability. Tennis is undoubtedly the most major game played in academic institutions; it’s played in all elementary schools, high schools and colleges across continents. A lot of financial, economic, management and HR practices need to be addressed in setting up a club club (Keighley, 2010). In this light, the paper will dwell on the economic side detailing the mandatory resources, and procedures. With this knowledge one can smoothly run a successful tennis club. The most emphasized aspect to a club is hiring a professional management team for the club (Sprecher, 2016). Coaches and managers with proficient qualifications should be hired to drive the business aspect of this venture. A coach is instrumental in nurturing talent and lessening negative experiences (Perris, 2000 ). The study further analyzes budgeting for initial set up cost, recurrent expenditures, cash flows and profitability of the club. It accounts for resources such as salaries of administrative stuff, purchase of equipment, maintenance of facilities, organization of competition, petty cash and consultation services. Therefore we cannot overlook the need for sponsorship, endorsement, talent scouting...
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