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Jane Austen was born on 16 Decembre, 1775 at steventon, Hampshire, the seventh child in a family of eight children: James (17762-1819), George (1766-1838), Edward (1768-1852) , Henry (1771-1850), Cassandra (1773-1845), Francis (1774-1865) and Charles (1779-1852). Her father descended from a Kentish family whose prosperity, Originating from generations of workers engaged in the manufacture of woolen cloth, enabled later members of the family to enter the legal and medical professions.Jane Austen lives within a lively, affectionate, cultured and intelligent family very fond and proud of each other.After leaving the boarding school, Jane receives most of her education at home from her father, and her brother henry, her closest adviser ad helper in literary matters.To Jane Austen, her life is perfectly normal, secure and happy. she hates the life of towns as she spends most of her life at steventon.Chapter One is an attempt to provide a view of Jane Austen’s life and several personal, political, social and literary in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.This Chapter also reveals the status of women in Jane Austen’s society and its influences on them.It is noteworthy that Jane Austen writes at a time in which the position of women in society is pathetic. It is assumed that women are the inferior sex and that marriage is their expected and natural destiny.Chapter Two investigigates in details how Jane Austen goes deeply into the minds of her heroines. the chapter shows how she has depicted her heroines by objectifying their inner conflicts. In the character of Marianne of sensibility. In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen turns from light-hearted parody of sensibility as human frailty that is at the same time a prevailing literary fashion, to more serious attempt at understanding an essential human trait and most interesting psychological phenomenon.Chapter three introduces Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of pride and prejudice. this heroine carries the active and excited intelligence which Jane Austen sees as existing and natural in all women.Elizabeth Bennet is a refreshing heroine with a backbone that qualifies her to stand tall against the pressures of society. she has enough sharp wit and moral courage to defy them.Chapter four explores Jane Asuten’s views on marriage. In Jane Asuten’s society, marriage measures success. The drama female existence centers on the effort to achieve and maintain marriage as an index of social status, financial security, and moral virtue.
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