The heroines of Jane Austen's novels are all young women of marriageable age who experience difficulties in love and learn valuable lessons about human nature as they gain in self-knowledge: each novel ends happily with the heroine's marriage to a man she truly loves in a union that is both a reward...
The heroines of Jane Austen's novels are all young women of marriageable age who experience difficulties in love and learn valuable lessons about human nature as they gain in self-knowledge: each novel ends happily with the heroine's marriage to a man she truly loves in a union that is both a reward and measure of her growth. This dissertation aims to examine how Austen's plans to take her heroine through a course of psychological reformation require a certain event at a certain time so that the heroine's attitude will be changed in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. A single idea is almost exclusively pursued: how the heroines become prepared to take their places in the world. This is the very soul of Austen's art. She is intent on taking her heroines through a course of psychological reformation to which almost everything else in her novels is subsidiary. The plots, the characters other than the heroine herself, and the settings of various scenes are constantly and relentlessly being put to use in order to further the heroine's psychological progress. She systematically elucidates, little by little, the psychological development of her heroine from, and toward, a definite and preconceived point. Indeed, Austen's greatness partly lies here, in the scheme. The plan behind the novels therefore seems to me the essential feature of Austen's art. All that is complex, subtle and wonderful in the novels begins with this, and never quite obliterates it. Thus, the dissertation focuses on how Austen's plan takes her heroine through a course of psychological reformation. It consists of three chapters about Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bonnet finally surrenders her ironic, superior detachment by marrying Darcy. Austen's psychological scheme requires four steps. Elizabeth's first step toward Pemberley is her rejection of Mr. Collins. The second episode is Elizabeth's discovering the truth about Wickham. The third is the perverse meeting of Elizabeth and Darcy at Pemberley and the last, mortification about Lydia's sudden and unexpected elopement with Wickham. In Mansfield Park, Fanny Price comes closer than any of Jane Austen's other heroines to having her author's unqualified approval. As the novel progresses Fanny was led out like other heroines to an even wider experience of the world. The two most important episodes in her systematic introduction to the world are the theatricals at Mansfield Park and her courtship by Henry Crawford. Emma magnificently express the large theme that has occupied Austen from the beginning. Again, a young lady enters the world. Emma's pulling away from her father and entering the world falls into three main episodes, each terminating in a 'fact' that she is forced to accept and adjust to. First, there is Mr Elton's proposing to Emma herself rather than to Harriet Smith; then the news of Frank Churchill's engagement; and finally the revelation of Harriet's true parentage.
The heroines of Jane Austen's novels are all young women of marriageable age who experience difficulties in love and learn valuable lessons about human nature as they gain in self-knowledge: each novel ends happily with the heroine's marriage to a man she truly loves in a union that is both a reward and measure of her growth. This dissertation aims to examine how Austen's plans to take her heroine through a course of psychological reformation require a certain event at a certain time so that the heroine's attitude will be changed in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. A single idea is almost exclusively pursued: how the heroines become prepared to take their places in the world. This is the very soul of Austen's art. She is intent on taking her heroines through a course of psychological reformation to which almost everything else in her novels is subsidiary. The plots, the characters other than the heroine herself, and the settings of various scenes are constantly and relentlessly being put to use in order to further the heroine's psychological progress. She systematically elucidates, little by little, the psychological development of her heroine from, and toward, a definite and preconceived point. Indeed, Austen's greatness partly lies here, in the scheme. The plan behind the novels therefore seems to me the essential feature of Austen's art. All that is complex, subtle and wonderful in the novels begins with this, and never quite obliterates it. Thus, the dissertation focuses on how Austen's plan takes her heroine through a course of psychological reformation. It consists of three chapters about Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bonnet finally surrenders her ironic, superior detachment by marrying Darcy. Austen's psychological scheme requires four steps. Elizabeth's first step toward Pemberley is her rejection of Mr. Collins. The second episode is Elizabeth's discovering the truth about Wickham. The third is the perverse meeting of Elizabeth and Darcy at Pemberley and the last, mortification about Lydia's sudden and unexpected elopement with Wickham. In Mansfield Park, Fanny Price comes closer than any of Jane Austen's other heroines to having her author's unqualified approval. As the novel progresses Fanny was led out like other heroines to an even wider experience of the world. The two most important episodes in her systematic introduction to the world are the theatricals at Mansfield Park and her courtship by Henry Crawford. Emma magnificently express the large theme that has occupied Austen from the beginning. Again, a young lady enters the world. Emma's pulling away from her father and entering the world falls into three main episodes, each terminating in a 'fact' that she is forced to accept and adjust to. First, there is Mr Elton's proposing to Emma herself rather than to Harriet Smith; then the news of Frank Churchill's engagement; and finally the revelation of Harriet's true parentage.
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