Family Essays

From your study of chapters 1-21 of Pride & Prejudice what have you learnt about the various members of the Bennet family and their relationships? The Bennet family consists of Mr Bennet, Mrs Bennet and their five daughters; Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. They all live together in Longbourn …

One of the central themes of “Pride and Prejudice” is love and marriage. Jane Austen portrays the different incentives of marriage using various characters as literary devices to explore relationships between characters who have married for love opposed to couples who marry for superficial reasons. She satirises the custom of …

In the novel Mrs. Dalloway, which follows a day of Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers, illustrates the futile artificiality of upper class lives. Portrayal of marriage reflects the contemporary situation of women after marriage and the lack of communication among individuals at post-war period of London. As reflected …

By close reference to some key scenes from Pride and Prejudice and the two short stories we have studied, show how ideas concerning love and marriage have changed since Jane Austen’s time and how this is reflected. In the period when Jane Austen lived society was structured, society was ruled …

In the play ‘Much ado About Nothing’, Shakespeare uses the power of men to surprise the audience in the wedding scene and to give the play an unexpected twist. When Don John took Claudio and Don Pedro to the outside of Hero’s balcony, Claudio believed Don Johns words because he …

Impressions are the ‘marked images and effects made on the mind and senses’. A villain would never say ‘I am evil’ or ‘I am a villain’ during a performance, but from his words and actions, the audience would easily be able to reach that conclusion. It can be said that …

Much Ado About Nothing was written in the time of Elizabethan England. In this century, it is historical knowledge that shows us that male status, honour and power ruled over femininity. Women were in a patriarchal world and dominated over. Men married women so they could own them or otherwise …

Benedick and Claudio are the main male characters in the play. They are very contrasting in their action, words and approaches to love, which is shown throughout the play. The first impressions we have of each are derived from their entrance and first words from Act1, Scene 1, when the …

Jane Austin in this novel writes about marriages in the nineteenth century. How well did she portray this? How successful was she in putting across the opinions of marriage through the characters? Marriage in that era was seen as essential for a woman’s fulfilment in adult life. It was a …

‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a romantic comedy in which Jane Austen implicitly criticises the views on love and marriage conveyed by most people in Regency society. Austen particularly criticises the way in which both men and women in Regency society could very rarely marry purely for love; as they both …