Jane Austen as a Novelist of the Romantic age A Pure Artist Jane Austen was one of the supreme artists in fiction. She was a highly sophisticated artist. In the opinion of W.L. Cross, “She is one of the sincerest examples in our literature of art for art’s sake.” Her experience was meagre and insignificant, … Read more
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield Novel Q. 1. Throw light on Dickens as a social reformer. Introduction : Primarily a story-teller and entertainer, Dickens could not remain blind to the social, political, economical and educational drawbacks of his day. He was naturally hurt; but he could not undertake the work of a social or political … Read more
FITZWILLIAM DARCY Introduction : Fitzwilliam Darcy is the hero of Pride and Prejudice. He is the owner of the Pemberley estate worth ten thousand pounds a year. He is twenty seven, tall, handsome and of majestic appearance. He is one of the complex characters in the novel. While comparing Bingley and Darcy, Jane Austen tells … Read more
LADY CATHERINE Her Pride : Lady Catherine is a tall, large woman with strongly-marked features, which might once have been handsome. She represents the aristocratic pride. She is so obsessed with self-importance that everybody around her seems to her infinitely inferior, both in social status and mental level. She is so accustomed to adulation and … Read more
Plot Construction Jane Austen’s great skill lies in plot construction. Her skilfully constructed plots are really the highest object of artistic perfection. Her novels have an exactness of structure and symmetry form. All the incidents that are introduced have their particular meanings. Jane Austen’s plots are not simple but compound. They do not compromise barely … Read more
Pride and Prejudice as a domestic novel A Writer of Domestic Life : Jane Austen has rightly been described as a writer of domestic novels. She is notorious for never going out of the parlour. She makes a very candid confession that for her two or three families in a country village’ are enough to … Read more
ELIZABETH BENNETHer Physical Charm : Elizabeth Bennet was the creator. Of all her heroines, Jane Austen liked Elizabeth Bennet most. During the last one century and a half, countless readers and critics have fallen in love with her. Elizabeth is certainly not as beautiful as Jane, still she is graceful and charming. There is something … Read more