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The Changes Represented in Jane Austen's Persuasion
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This essay explores Jane Austen’s perception of the social changes and their resulting change in values of her time in her last complete novel, Persuasion. Through discussing some issues related with the changes, this essay aims to reveal Austen's awareness of the strained relation between the old vision of society and the new one and contend that the deep-seated prejudice that Austen was without any historical and social consciousness is not true, after all. In Persuasion, Austen portrays the picture of society in transition where the old values conflict with the new ones and the traditional landed class hands over the cental position to the newly emerged class. The bankruptcy of Elliots, the gentry clinging to the traditional values, symbolizes the disabled patriarchal society. However, the change is represented as improvement and those who accept the change and avail themselves of the time can be the new main axis of the society. In addition, Austen shows a new and concrete vision of the womanhood. The model of a new woman represented in Persuasion is not central to its narrative, but her presence is very revealing in that she is presented as a desirable figure for all her unfeminine qualities.
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This essay explores Jane Austen’s perception of the social changes and their resulting change in values of her time in her last complete novel, Persuasion. Through discussing some issues related with the changes, this essay aims to reveal Austen's awareness of the strained relation between the old vision of society and the new one and contend that the deep-seated prejudice that Austen was without any historical and social consciousness is not true, after all. In Persuasion, Austen portrays the picture of society in transition where the old values conflict with the new ones and the traditional landed class hands over the cental position to the newly emerged class. The bankruptcy of Elliots, the gentry clinging to the traditional values, symbolizes the disabled patriarchal society. However, the change is represented as improvement and those who accept the change and avail themselves of the time can be the new main axis of the society. In addition, Austen shows a new and concrete vision of the womanhood. The model of a new woman represented in Persuasion is not central to its narrative, but her presence is very revealing in that she is presented as a desirable figure for all her unfeminine qualities.
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