Tuesday 4 November 2008

The Heroines In Jane Austen's Novels

All Jane Austen's novels have a detailed description of all the characters, in particular in each novel there is a strong female figure.
The characters have a fullv range of parents, the parents in fact influence a lot the decisions of the children, so this relationship beetwen parents end the children has a great influence on the marriage choise.
In spite of this all the heroines manage to marry the real love at the end of the stories .
So these characters are called heroines because they don't accept the rules imposed by the parents, and also because they can distinguish themselves by the common opinion of the 18th century.
Elionor and Marianne are the heroines in the novel "Sense and Sensibility".
Marianne is the incarnaion of the sensibility and Elionor is the incarnation of the sense. In fact Elionor is much self-controlled than Marianne. They are heroines because at the end of the story they both become two complete women.
In "Mansfield Park" Fanny Price has a wealthy and beautiful cousin than can't be compared with her, because she is shy in the relationship with the other people and refuses to settle down for a man.
The heroine of "Emma" is Emma Woodhouse that is one of the most irritating and self-obsessed Austen's charaters. She has no respect for the other people, only Mr.Knightley knows how Emma really is. Under his authoritative aspect she grows up as a person.
In "Pride and prejudice" the heroine is Elizabeth Bennet, an intelligent person that feels himself more intelligent to the rest of her family.
The first impression for her is absolutely the most important thing for knowing a person, but her personality is modified by experience.
She is an all-around character.
Catherine Morland at the contrary is the most immature Austen's heroine.
She is "Northanger abbey"'s heroine.
In "Persuasion" we can find the most mature Austen's heroine: Anne Elliot.
Anne is persuaded not to marry her real love, but after eight years he still loves her. So learninig from her mistakes she never will be persuaded not to marry her real love.

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