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- She contrasts the plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity. Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy.
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Mar 31, 2024 · Jane Austen used irony as a potent tool to parody and criticize the social mores of early 19th-century England. Irony permeates Mrs. Bennet’s unrelenting efforts to place her daughters in advantageous marriages, particularly her desire on finding affluent husbands.
Oct 7, 2023 · In "Pride and Prejudice," Austen uses situational and verbal irony to narrate. Examine how irony becomes a potent device of narrative exploration of the characters and society.
Summary: Irony and satire are central to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Dramatic irony arises when characters are unaware of information that readers know, such as...
Because the narration of Pride and Prejudice is third-person omniscient, readers learn that Darcy has feelings for Elizabeth long before she does. This leads to moments of dramatic irony, such as when Darcy comes close to Elizabeth while she plays piano and she assumes he seeks to intimidate her:
Jul 29, 2022 · In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen employs a variety of ironies. Austen uses verbal irony in the very first sentence 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.”
And through irony, by pointing to the limits of definitive and assertive language, Jane Austen suggests a powerful and pleasurable relation women in patriarchy may have to discursive authority.
The analysis demonstrates that Jane Austen seems to use free indirect style mainly to attempt to control the reading process rather than to convey irony. Migliorelli argues that the author skilfully manipulates her readers’ expectations and, consequently, that the real irony in Pride and Prejudice
