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Essay Grade: 95%
Pride and Prejudice
4,844 words, approx. 16 pages
Describes the character of Elizabeth Bennet in the light of her social setting. Essay also uses the ever-famous book 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austin to show how Elizabeth Bennet behaves compared to the other characters in the book and what society was like in those days.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and Prejudice
4,556 words, approx. 15 pages
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen The money-essence of capitalism regarding the marriage system.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Pride and Prejudice: Mr. Collins' Proposals
3,204 words, approx. 11 pages
Examines Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. Compares and contrasts the proposals made by Mr Collins (Vol. 1 chapter 19) and Mr Darcy (Vol.2 chapter 11) to Elizabeth, looking at under what circumstances the proposals are made and how the recipient responds. Details how Austen presents the proposals to the reader.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice
2,912 words, approx. 10 pages
Austen presents us with several different examples of marriage in `Pride and Prejudice.' Focusing on at least three couples, explore how each relationship is presented and what you think are Austen's intentions.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Conventions of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
2,588 words, approx. 9 pages
The main subject of Pride and Prejudice is marriage in an acquisitive society. The plot of the novel is driven by its examination and satire of the difficulties to be faced by any eligible female in pursuit of a husband. Austen mainly concentrates on the relationship of Elizabeth and Darcy, keeping the relationships of Jane and Bingley, Charlotte and Collins, and Wickham and Lydia in the background.
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Essay Grade: 96%
How Material Wealth and Social Class Affect Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
2,515 words, approx. 8 pages
Describes and analyzes how material wealth and social class affected marriage in the novel `Pride and Prejudice', by Jane Austen.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Love and Marriage in "Pride and Prejudice"
2,427 words, approx. 8 pages
The themes of love and human relationships, told in a humorous vein, are key to understanding Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 88%
Pride and Prejudice, a Critical Analysis
2,387 words, approx. 8 pages
Analyzes the Jane Austen novel, 'Pride and Prejudice'. Provides a story summary. Explores the morality of the story and of society in Austen's time.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Compare Elizabeth Bennet's Attitude to Love and Marriage with That of Three Other Characters
2,204 words, approx. 7 pages
This essay is a comparison of Elizabeth Bennet with three other characters in "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Central Characters and Concerns in Pride and Prejudice
2,183 words, approx. 7 pages
This essay discusses how effectively the opening chapter of Jane Austen's `Pride and Prejudice' introduces the reader to the central characters and concerns of the novel.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
2,169 words, approx. 7 pages
Considers the marriages that took place in `Pride and Prejudice,' a Jane Austen novel. Questions which was the most successful and which was the least.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Pride and Prejudice: The Fine Line Between Love and Hate
2,052 words, approx. 7 pages
The relationship between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in Jane Austen' Pride and Prejudice is analyzed in terms of their alternating tension and love. This essay detail elements of the plot line to show the development of their relationship.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Constraints of Society on the Caracters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
2,022 words, approx. 7 pages
Considers the societal restraints placed upon the characters in English author Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Also ponders how the societal expectations of the day affected the characters.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Pride & Prejudice
2,013 words, approx. 7 pages
Pride and Prejudice analysis of individuals in society with several other related text.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice and Falling in Love
1,984 words, approx. 7 pages
Provides a detailed critique of an extract taken from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, relating key themes in the novel with issues arising in the extract.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Elizabeth's Rebellion in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,930 words, approx. 6 pages
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is sometimes criticized for supported the repressive Victorian patriarchy of her time. But the character of Elizabeth does not accept everything: she goes through stages of protest acceptance, rebellion and conformity.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Society's Moral Development through Reform in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,881 words, approx. 6 pages
In "Pride and Prejudice," Jane Austen explores the social mores of marriage in upper-middle class 19th century England as an analogy to how society should develop itself through reform, not revolution, as it matures.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice
1,636 words, approx. 6 pages
This is an essay of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It deals with the main theme of the story and is NOT a summary. It sites only specific scenes from the novel that support the assertion.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Narrative Techniques of Ivan Turgenev and Jane Austen
1,630 words, approx. 5 pages
A comparison of Elizabeth Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice" to Arkady Nikolai used as a character by Ivan Turgenev in "Fathers and Sons."
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Essay Grade: 96%
Pride and Prejudice: Social Class
1,563 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay focuses on social class and the effects it has on the characters in "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 87%
The Impact of Wealth on Love Relationships in Pride and Prejudice
1,556 words, approx. 5 pages
Analyzes the impact of wealth on love relationships in "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Comparison of Novel and Film Versions of "Pride and Prejudice"
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
A comparison of Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" with a film version. In the author's opinion, so much time is spent on the character of Mrs. Bennet in the movie that it fails to properly expand the other characters.
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Essay Grade: 92%
"Bridget Jones's Diary" Parallels with "Pride and Prejudice"
1,406 words, approx. 5 pages
Obsession with finding a husband and mothers marrying off their daughters are themes found in both "Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding and Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Elizabeth Benett: a Challenge to Convention
1,378 words, approx. 5 pages
In Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Benett challeneges society and her social class. She challenges the gender roles of the nineteenth century by disregarding acts of propriety. Throughout the novel, she is held in contempt as being too disagreeable and athletic for a woman by the culture around her.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Maturation in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,298 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay deals with maturation in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" as well as discusses themes and maturation topics.
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Essay Grade: 98%
Ideas about Marriage from Campion and Austen
1,263 words, approx. 4 pages
Examines the ideas about marriage presented in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Jane Campion's "The Piano", focusing on society's expectations of women in marriage and the issue of marriage as a form of imprisonment.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Critique of a Fraiman's Criticism of "Pride and Predjudice"
1,254 words, approx. 4 pages
An essay about Susan Fraiman's "The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet," which is a considered a revolutionary critique of Jane Austen's "Emma." Fraiman looks at the motivations of the novel's characters from a feminist perspective.
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Essay Grade: 95%
Love or Money
1,249 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay describes Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Jane Austen's Middle-class Female
1,235 words, approx. 4 pages
Jane Austin insightfully portrays the class mentalities of the middle and upper classes during the early nineteenth century in her novel Pride and Prejudice. It is not simply a flowery love story. It is a critique on society's flaws, and Elizabeth Bennet is Austin's instrument, for in transcending convention and popular thought
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Essay Grade: 92%
Cultural Context and Values
1,228 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay provides a comparative study between Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and 20th century appropriation "Bridget Jones' Diary"(novel not film).
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Essay Grade: 92%
Scene Analysis in Pride and Prejudice
1,221 words, approx. 4 pages
Provides a short but concise analysis of a scene in Pride and Prejudice that occurs after Elizabeth receieves and informative letter form Mr.Darcy.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Darcy's Letter in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,168 words, approx. 4 pages
In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, after she rejects his marriage proposal, and his actions in delivering the letter sets the tone for the novel's second half. The letter serves as a transition from focusing on Jane and Bingley's relationship to a probable relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Symbolism of Elizabeth and Lydia in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,137 words, approx. 4 pages
In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," the characters Elizabeth and Lydia's stories represent the right and wrong things to look for when pursuing a marriage.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Choice Vs. Chance in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,097 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay compares and contrasts the aspects of choice versus chance in Joel Weinsheimer's article "Chance and the hierarchy of marriages in Pride and Prejudice".
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Essay Grade: 81%
Movie or Book, That Is a Question
1,077 words, approx. 4 pages
Too often, movie versions of great works of literature are not faithful to the book. Sometimes, directors dilute the original author's intent and make the viewing experience less enjoyable. Such did not happen to Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, at least not in the version - the 1940 movie starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Analysis of Chapter 11 of "Pride and Prejudice"
1,077 words, approx. 4 pages
The reader understands the characters in Chapter 11 of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" by the focalizing of the Elizabeth Bennett character. Narrative voice and dialogue are the two main ways Austin reveals the characters in her novel.
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Essay Grade: 92%
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
1,064 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay provides an analysis of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Character Analysis of "Pride and Prejudice"
1,046 words, approx. 4 pages
The character of Elizabeth Bennet and the role of social classes in Jane Austen's classic novel, "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 81%
First Impressions
1,042 words, approx. 4 pages
The original title for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was First Impressions. Even though Pride and Prejudice is a well thought out title for the novel, First Impressions is what the novel really is about. The novel is based on Elizabeth and what her impressions are about the people she decided to associate herself with.
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Essay Grade: 98%
The Rise of the Middle Class in "Pride and Prejudice"
1,027 words, approx. 3 pages
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is a tale of unrequited love in an oppressive Elizabethan society. But, at a deeper level, it also depicts the real-life societal clash between the era's rising middle class and the corrupt and decadent aristocracy.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice: Lady Catherine
1,026 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay shows how Jane Austen uses Lady Catherine as a stereotyped character and describes her functions in the novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice
1,016 words, approx. 3 pages
This is an essay based around feminism with Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice as examples. Analyzes the lives of female characters in both texts and describes the social restrictions that they endured.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice: A Feminist Perspective
1,013 words, approx. 3 pages
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is a social criticism of 19th century British society, especially of women's repressed role. She in particular examines the financial situations regarding marriage during this era.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Ideas about Marriage in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
906 words, approx. 3 pages
Details how marriage is portrayed by Jane Austen in "Pride and Prejudice".
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Essay Grade: 98%
Mrs. Bennet's Utter Nonsense
816 words, approx. 3 pages
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
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Essay Grade: 92%
Bumbing Mrs. Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice"
792 words, approx. 3 pages
Mrs. Bennet in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is portrayed as somewhat of a fool: an unremarkable women who pretentions toward higher class society earn her distain. Mrs. Barret is clearly less intelligent and witty than her daughter, Elizabeth.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Elizabeth in 'Pride and Prejudice' and Jane Eyre in 'Jane Eyre'
742 words, approx. 3 pages
Being published in the nineteenth century in England, the two famous novels Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte both focus on the issues of love and marriage. Especially, these novels reveal the two characters who are Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre and their significant features in dealing with the trials in their love.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Power, Pride and Prejudice
686 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes Jane Austen uses the theme of power in her novel Pride and Prejudice. Details how money and class are used by characters to manipulate other characters and situations.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Satire in Pride and Prejudice
666 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes how in her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses satire to convey the social commentary of the book. Provides an analysis of the satirical character of Mr.Collins in the book.
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Essay Grade: 93%
A Perfect Marriage
664 words, approx. 2 pages
By comparing the marriages of Elizabeth and Darcy, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, and Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, the reader becomes familiar with Jane Austen's idea of a perfect marriage.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
658 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Discusses main character Elizabeth Bennet and her opposition to the restraints placed upon women by Victorian society. Relates Elizabeth's life to that of the author.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Moral Ambiguity in "Pride and Prejudice"
647 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay analyzes the moral ambiguity of Darcy in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 85%
Pride and Prejudice: A Critical Analysis
639 words, approx. 2 pages
Provides a critical analysis from a biographical approach of Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Pride and Prejudice
635 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Describes the story's plot and examines Austen's characterization of major characters.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Pride and Prejudice: First Impressions
631 words, approx. 2 pages
First impressions play a major role in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, specifically in the development of three of the main characters. While Elizebeth Bennet accurately appraises the character of people such as Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she greatly misjudges the characters of both Darcy and Wickham due to deceptive first impressions.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Pride and Prejudice Love Letters
603 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the love letters in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Pride and Prejudice: An Evaluation of Natures
567 words, approx. 2 pages
The conversations between Elizabeth and Darcy in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" reflect a disregard for Victorian-era social classes, but also serve as verbal swordplay between the characters, a type of intellectual game that challenges them and brings them closer together.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Pride and Prejudice, a Plot Summary
564 words, approx. 2 pages
Summarizes the Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice. Discusses major themes and character conflicts in the text.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Reader Sympathy For Elizabeth in "Pride and Prejudice"
520 words, approx. 2 pages
Jane Austen generates sympathy for the character of Elizabeth in the classic novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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Essay Grade: 83%
"The Distance Is Nothing When One Has a Motive"
465 words, approx. 2 pages
In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen wrote, "The distance is nothing when one has a motive." Having a goal or dream in life shortens the distance considerably and makes the hardships associated with achieving the goal worth enduring.
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Essay Grade: 75%
The Marriage of the Bennets in "Pride and Prejudice"
324 words, approx. 1 pages
The marriage between the Bennets in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" has many faults, including Mr. Bennet's lack of respect for his wife. The marriage should be considered a success, however, because it was typical of the time and based upon money, not love and respect.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Dignified Men in Pride and Prejudice
321 words, approx. 1 pages
Discusses the novel, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Describes Fitzwilliam Darcy and George Wickham as dignified men. Provides supporting text from the novel.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Pride and Prejudice: An Examination of Mr. Bennet
314 words, approx. 1 pages
Discusses the novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Analyzes the character of Mr. Bennet. Describes his relationship with his wife.

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