Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice

Choose one character from Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice and develop an analytical essay that

argues your interpretation of the character’s behavior demonstrating a clear picture oflate eighteenth-

century (early nineteenth-century) culture of class, money, and manners. You will determine your

conclusions based on the character’s actions and conversations with other characters in the novel.
Develop your character study with at least three examples from the text in which the character shows

her/his views on class, money, and manners in specific circumstances and with other characters.

Describe each of the three situations with enough details to provide a context for your analysis. It is

important to consider the chronological order of these events in your discussion. Remember you are

proving through your interpretation based on evidence from the text that what you claim to be true about

the character can also convince your reader.

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