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Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis - College Term Paper

Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis

Jane Austen's Persuasion depicts a young woman's struggles with
love, friendship and family. Anne Elliot who is pretty, intelligent and
amiable, had some years before been engaged to a young naval officer,
Frederick Wentworth, but had been persuaded by her trusted friend Lady
Russell to break off the engagement, because of his lack of fortune and a
misunderstanding of his easy nature. The breach had brought great
unhappiness to Anne. Pre-Victorian England offers a romantic and whimsical
backdrop for the characters.
When the story opens Anne is twenty seven, and the bloom of her
youth is gone. She is the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a spendthrift
baronet and widower, with a swollen ...

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dies.
Austen presents her strongest feminist character in this novel.
The roles of hero and heroin are reversed and men and woman are presented
as moral equals. It is interesting that the most explicit feminist
protests by Austen in her novels all have to do with literature. In
Persuasion Anne Elliot debates Captain Harville on who loves longest, women
or men:

Captain Harville:

"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not
something to say upon woman's inconstancy. ... But perhaps you will say,
these were all written by men."

Anne Elliot:

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to
examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own
story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has
been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." (Austen,
Page 222)

As the story unfolds, Anne frees herself from familial authority through
her relationship with other strong women. In ...

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Added: 2/13/2006 01:11:19 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 523
Pages: 2

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