Jane Austen as a Novelist
- 1. Submitted By Hafiz Muhammad Mubashar Ali Roll No 29 DVM 1st Semester (2015-2020) UCV & AS, IUB Submitted to MAAM Sadaf
- 2. Jane Austen as a Novelist English Literature Jane Austen
- 3. Jane Austen was born on 16th December 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire, where her father, the Rev. George Austen, was rector. Her mother was Cassandra Leigh. Jane Austen died on July 18th, 1817. Biography
- 4. From 1783 to 1785, Jane and cassandra attend school in oxford and southampton and the Abbey School at reading. Austens could no longer afford the tuition, Jane and Cassandra returned home to read extensively. she learnt from their Family how to speak French and Italian and play the piano. Her father kept a large collection of Literature in his home library. Jane and her sister both had permission to use library and get benefits from the books. Education
- 7. The Austens were moderately well off. They kept a carriage and pair and ‘enjoyed … some of the considerations usually awarded to landed proprietors’. The household was lively and bookish. The family also enjoyed writing and performing plays for evening entertainment.
- 8. Jane Austen’s Dressing This is a photograph of a coat worn by Jane Austen. It gives an idea of the type of clothes worn by young ladies of the time.
- 9. Because of the charm of her plots, their setting in merry old England, and the Victorian-styled costumes and 1850 setting used in the first film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1940), you may view Austen as Victorian. (This isn't your fault . . . the 1940 film misled you!) But Jane Austen lived between 1775 and 1817, and her novels came out between 1813 and 1818, the year after her death, which places her and her work in the Georgian period of English history. Georgian Writer
- 10. Pride and Prejudice 1796 (Pub. 1813) Sense and Sensibility 1797 (Pub. 1811) Northhanger Abbey 1798 (Pub. 1818) Mansfield Park (Pub. 1814) Emma (Pub. 1815) Persuasion (Pub. 1818) Austen Novels
- 11. She was not a Victorian. She was the kind of person who seldom glanced to past or future. She neither, wished to startle the world with revolutionary achievements. She took her world as she found it, wishing for nothing better. She would have found little zest in an ideal world. Jane Austen’s outlook
- 12. Morality Religion politics property and class Themes In Her work
- 13. Mr. knightely “I wonder what will become of her” Mrs.Norris “Is one who makes a very strong first impression.” Static quality in Jane Austen
- 14. Jane Austen defined her boundaries,and never steeped beyond them. She had a narrow experience;but she adopted and entirely different attitude towards it. she adjusted her vision,and focused it to a very small perspective. She choose the microscopic method of observation. In the mental as in the physical vision of very human being there is a blind spot; Imposing Limitations
- 15. Jane Austen style is strongle antithetic. Her style in pride and prejudice. Dramatic Irony Showed equal command Jane Austen style
- 16. She specialised in happiness. In Mansfiled Park She wrote; “Let other pens dvbhwell on guilt and misery,I quite such odious subjects as soon as I can,impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves,to tolerable comfort,and to have done with all the rest.” In every book of Jane Austen showed the same willingness to appreciate the good things of life. Specialised in happiness
- 17. Jane Austen is as “a mere pillor of darkness in the dark.” In almost every secret there is an element of romance. Jane Austen world of Wit and Humour
- 18. The best Jane Austen Character are; Her Heroines are Ordinary Women Elizabeth BennetElinor Dashwood
- 20. Continue… Some others are George Crawford Diane Park Mrs. Noris Filtzwilliam Darsi Sir Walter Elliot Lady Suson Veron Jane Austen choose an ordinary type of heroines and never allowed to become extraordinary.
- 21. Jane Austen Appeal to Twentieth Century Wonderful understanding of human nature. Works are relevant till this age. Characters are universal. Works are easily translated across various mediums. Pop cultural reinvention.
- 22. “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” “An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.” Jane Austen Quotes
- 24. Questions?