Essay- CHANGE UP!

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Body 1:

How Austen uses satire to reveal her opinion on women's values when it came to marriage

- care more about money/power than actual love
- believes women had distorted values


Body 2:

How Austen believes/shows that society also affects women's values

- Entailment; women could only receive power/status/stability if they found a wealthy husband; couldn't get land, would go to the male

Conclusion Paragraph

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  Austen's constant use of satire throughout the novel helps illustrate the values of women during the early 1800s in England. She may deceive readers many times with her ironic tone, but she affectively displays her true opinions on the women in society when dealing with marriage. Austen attempts to explore the frequent clash of true love and wealth, as women would set out to find a man to marry based on the wealth, and social power he would be able to bring to her, rather than focusing on true love itself.

First Body Paragraph

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    Austen's frequent use of satire throughout the novel highlights her view that women in society had an incorrect values when dealing with marriage. She masks her feelings on society with satire and continues to implement this with different characters. Austen's opening line of the novel, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (1) shapes the entire novel. Austen's immediate use of satire not only foreshadows the issue that she will explore throughout the novel, but also hides her true feelings about the matter. She really believes that wealthy single men are not in need of a wife, but instead, women at that time in society were in need of a wealthy husband. In a time when wealth and a high status meant everything, women valued social power more than anything, and saw it as a necessity and privilege when searching for a future husband. Austen utilizes specific characters in her novel in order to support and validate her view on women in society. She underlines Mrs. Benett's values when her character claims, "If She should die, it would be a comfort to know.." (23). Once again, Austen employs satire so she can clearly illuminate the distorted values that women had in society at this time. Mrs. Bennet states that if her daughter died, it would be okay, or in comfort, because she was trying to win a wealthy man's hand in marriage. Using the word 'comfort' to describe death supports Austen's argument that women cared much more about achieving wealth and power than finding true love. Mrs. Bennet is Austen's most obvious source of clarifying the messed up values of women in society during this period. Although Austen may somewhat hide her true opinion on women in society with her strong use of satire, she affectively attempts to make it clear to the readers, and prove that women needed to alter their values and views on marriage.

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Question (changed): How did Women at the time view marriage and how does Austen feel about it/use satire to show this?

In Pride and Prejudice, Austen illustrates the role of marriage and social power in early 1800 English society. Through several of her characters, she captures the values of women at the time when it came to the idea marriage. Her novel explores the conflict between love and wealth, and how women prioritized the power which a marriage could offer.Through her use of satire, Austen clearly displays her view of women in society and their values; in a time when status led to overall social power, women sought to marry into wealth to achieve that status, rather than basing marriage on true love.

More preparing for essay

Characters:

Elizabeth with Darcy

Charlotte with mr Collins

Mrs Bennett - how she feels with marriage - Charles



Use these examples to show different views on love with marriage

Also show hawthornes ACTUAL view through satire

How do money and power play a role in marriages at this time? How heavily did women prioritize ones social power when finding a man to marry? How do love and marriages differ from those today?

Essay

Love and Money/power

at this time, women prioritized money over true love-let wealth/power shape a marriage

Mrs. Bennet- cares much more about her daughters' marriage shaped by money, not actual love; she even says there would be a "comfort" in death as long as they are in persuit of marrying Charles-rich; she will do anything to see one of them marry Charles because he is powerful

Power=high status; women wanted to marry someone of high status-want power and social status that comes witht he man

Mrs. Bennet-character that cares most about this

Austen uses satire to illustrate how characters like Mrs. Bennet only want money, not love, and she hides her real view that it is a messed up social view and structure

D.W. Harding

1) Jane Austen’s scope is extremely restricted, but within her limits she succeeded admirably in expressing the gentler virtues of a civilized social order. (Harding and Linklater)

I do agree with this because I really believe that views on society and people are shaped by the time or generation someone lives in. I think a lot has changed socially obviously, since that time, so  her scope is restricted, because of how society was structured then.

2) Austen as satirist is misleading; she has none of the underlying didactic intention ordinarily attributed to the satirist. Her object is not missionary; it is the more desperate one of merely finding some mode of existence for her critical attitudes.

I disagree with this because I do not think she is misleading as a satirist at all. I think Austen delivers satire on purpose to prove certain aspects of society out, and I think it adds a comical and interesting touch to the novel.

3) Austen’s method is to offer her readers every excuse for regarding as rather exaggerated figures of fun people whom she herself detests and fears.

I disagree because I do not feel that she is offering her readers an excuse for regarding as rather exaggerated figures of fun people whom she herself detests and fears. I think she uses satire to display points about characters, but does not detest and fear them herself.

4) Readers enjoy the funny side of Mrs. Bennet but miss that Austen actually detests her.

I think that readers do enjoy the comical side of Mrs. Bennet but I don't agree that Usten actually detests her. Maybe it is perceived that way when she used satire with Mrs. Bennet, but she does not detest her.

5) Austen’s light satire masks a rather bitter diatribe against 1800 social customs, but masked in exaggerated caricatures that disguise the bitterness.

I agree because I think Austen is trying to poke fun at and display the social customs of the 1800s. I think she does use this satire many times to mask her true disapproval for the social structure at the time.

Question Focus

1. How does Darcy's superior social status affect his charater?

2. How do Darcy and Charles differ with their views on society and people socially inferior to them?

3. What does it say about Elizabeth's chracter when she denies Mr. Collin's marriage proposal, despite his wealth?

4. How does too much pride affect Darcy and Mr. Collins when looking at Elizabeth?

5. Does Mrs. Bennet immediately take in interest in one of her daughter's getting married to CHarles because of his wealth, or true love?

6. Who are the characters that are described with their wealth, and therefore, are socially "more superior"?

7. How is Charles' character different from the other very wealthy charcters?

By Blake R and Tyler CC

Ipad

So far, I am stil not the biggest fan of using the iPads. I feel that highlighting and annotating is pretty difficult and takes alot more time than it usually would. I think the teachers should have been trained more in advance for the iPad use, because then we would probably be able to work faster. I think everyone's, including teachers, is still struggling to adapt tone big change, so hopefully we will all get used to it.

Filming the proposal

If I were to film this scene now, I would definitely capture the comedy in it. I thought it was pretty funny how Mr. Collins continues to ask Elizabeth to marry him, and even when she says no every time he asks, Mr collins keeps assuring himself that she really does want to accept the marriage proposal. I think that this scene would be very funny especially in a film today because as movies and plays got more modern, they adopted a much more comical approach to entertaining, and I think this scene could be even funnier.