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- Austen uses irony as a means of moral and social satire. Her sentences, while usually simple and direct, contain within them the basic contradictions which reveal profound insights into character and theme. This is most obvious in her blunt character sketches.
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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 · The most important narrative mode of Jane Austen is her use of irony. Irony may be defined as a mode of discourse for conveying meaning different from and usually opposite to the apparent meaning of a text.
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.”. This line is a sarcasm as it completely refers to the opposite.
Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery remains a fundamental work of commentary on Austen. It is filled with idiosyncratic insights about what makes Austen...
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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...
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 Mrs. Bennet's...
Austen’s ironic style is important to the novel for two main reasons. First, the style adds vibrancy and interest to relatively straightforward plot events.
