what is the theme of pride and prejudice by jane austen?
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I daresay the theme of book is 'not to read a book buy its cover'.  For instance, we have the two main characters Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth decides on first impression that Mr. Darcy is a proud, unfeeling man.  However, Mr. Darcy on closer acquaintance turns out to be quite gentle and kind toward her and her family.  The we have the relationship with Elizabeth and Mr. Wickam, which at first we view him as wonderfully open and positive and abused by Mr. Darcy abominably.  However, we find it is quite opposite, as Wickam has lied about his past and it is in fact Mr. Darcy who was abused by Wickam.  Wickam then has the audacity to expose Elizabeth's youngest sister to ridicule by eloping with the youngest sister without any intention on marrying her AND racked numerous debts in every town he stays in.
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I had to read that story a couple months ago. :)\n\nTry entering a theme statement, such as:\n In "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connel uses irony(or some other tool can go there) to create the universal idea that ____(theme here)___\n\nThis is how my english teacher likes us to write our themes, and she says it's impressive to end a paragraph with an overall closing theme.
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Perhaps from D.H. Lawrence's "Studies in Classic American Literature", published in 1923. In Chapter 10, "Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo," Lawrence writes (see the 8th paragaph for your citation):\n\n"Look at Melville's eighty long years of writhing. And to the end he writhed on the ideal pin.\n\nFrom the 'perfect woman lover' he passed on to the 'perfect friend'. He looked and looked for the perfect man friend.\n\nCouldn't find him.\n\nMarriage was a ghastly disillusion to him, because he looked for perfect marriage.\n\nFriendship never even made a real start in him - save perhaps his half-sentimental love for Jack Chase, in White Jacket.\n\nYet to the end he pined for this: a perfect relationship; perfect mating; perfect mutual understanding. A perfect friend.\n\nRight to the end he could never accept the fact that perfect relationships cannot be. Each soul is alone, and the aloneness of each soul is a double barrier to perfect relationship between two beings.\n\nEach soul should be alone. And in the end the desire for a 'perfect relationship' is just a vicious, unmanly craving. 'Tous nos malheurs viennent de ne pouvoir etre seuls.'\n\nMelville, however, refused to draw his conclusion. Life was wrong, he said. He refused Life. But he stuck to his ideal of perfect relationship, possible perfect love. The world ought to be a harmonious loving place. And it can't be. So life itself is wrong.\n\nIt is silly arguing. Because, after all, only temporary man sets up the 'oughts'.\n\nThe world ought not to be a harmonious loving place. It  ought to be a place of fierce discord and intermittent harmonies: which it is.\n\nLove ought not to be perfect. It ought to have perfect moments, and wildenesses of thorn bushes - which it has.\n\nA 'perfect' relationship ought not to be possible. Every relationship should have its absolute limits, its absolute reserves, essential to the singleness of the soul in each person. A truly perfect relationship is one in which each party leaves great tracts unknown in the other party.\n\nNo two persons can meet at more than a few points, consciously. If two people can just be together fairly often, so that the presence of each is a sort of balance to the other, that is the basis of perfect relationship. There must be true separatenesses as well.\n\nMelville was, at the core, a mystic and an idealist.\n\nPerhaps, so am I.\n\nAnd he stuck to his ideal guns.\n\nI abandon mine.\n\nHe was a mystic who raved because the old ideal guns shot havoc. The guns of the 'noble spirit'. Of 'ideal love'.\n\nI say, let the old guns rot.\n\nGet new ones, and shoot straight."
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The English Roses \nby Madonna, Jeffrey Fulvimari (Illustrator)
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1. Its her way of getting her revenge on mankind by employing Pip to come to her house so that Estella can 'break his heart' when he falls in love with her. Miss Havisham does this because her heart was 'broken' by her ex- lover so she wants Pip's heart to be treated just the same as hers.\n\n2. a lawyer named Jaggers appears with strange news: a secret benefactor has given Pip a large fortune, and Pip must come to London immediately to begin his education as a gentleman. \n\n3. Family relations to the Pockets:\nMiss Havisham—Estella \nMiss Havisham—Camilla and Cousin Raymond—Georgiana—Miss Sarah Pocket—Matthew Pocket \nMiss Havisham—Arthur \nMatthew Pocket—Belinda Pocket—children \n\n4. A coworker of Pips. I think it is in Ch 25 where you see the contrast of Wemmick's cheerful, friendly personality at home and his harsh, stolid actions at work.\n\n5. The "Aged": Wemmick's elderly, and quite deaf, relative (of unknown relations). The Aged lives with Wemmick in his castle and is quite happy when you nod at him. \n\n6. The "Avenger": Pip's servant boy who Pip finds more of a nuisance than a help. Pip never has enough for him to do, so the Avenger always seems to be standing around. \n\n7. While the convict has come to England to see Pip and enjoy flaunting the gentleman he has made, Pip tells him he is in danger and that they need to lay low. The convict tells Pip his name is Abel Magwitch and that he is using the name “Provis” for this trip. Magwitch’s motives are a mixture of good and bad; part reward, part revenge. He is obviously grateful for Pip’s help years ago and is generously rewarding him with an easy life. Even his manner of holding Pip’s hands is much more honest and heartfelt than Pumblechook’s “May I?” However Magwitch can be “low” as well. He wants to show society that a low dog like him can make a fine gentleman. By showing Pip off to the world he gets revenge for how the world treated him.\n\n8. The relation of social class to personality\n\n9. That it was a social class aware society.
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I can give you the themes and you should be able to knock together your own essay:\n\nYou need to give it a modern twist - so how about comparing it to the current view of Muslims and terrorists (using the themes below). A certain A Grade.\n\n1) Intolerance\n\nThe Crucible is set in a theocratic society: the church and the state are one, religion is strict - known as Puritanism. moral laws and state laws are the same: sin and the status of an individual’s soul are matters of public concern. There is no room for deviation, since any individual whose private life doesn’t conform to the established moral laws represents a threat not only to the public good but also to the rule of God. In Salem, everything and everyone belongs to either God or the Devil; dissent is not merely unlawful, it is associated with satanic activity. This is underlying logic behind the witch trials. As Danforth says in Act III, “a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.” The witch trials are the ultimate expression of intolerance (and hanging witches is the ultimate means of restoring the community’s purity.\n\nWE ARE INTOLLERENT OF MUSLIMS\n\n2) Hysteria - is tearing apart a community. Hysteria supplants logic and enables people to believe that their neighbors, whom they have always considered upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable crimes—communing with the devil, killing babies, and so on. It also allows folk to air their pent up grievences and grudges.\n\nThe most obvious case is Abigail, who uses the situation to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft and have her sent to jail. But others thrive on the hysteria as well: Reverend Parris strengthens his position within the village, albeit temporarily, by making scapegoats of people like Proctor who question his authority. The wealthy, ambitious Thomas Putnam gains revenge on Francis Nurse by getting Rebecca, Francis’s virtuous wife, convicted of the supernatural murders of Ann Putnam’s babies. In the end, hysteria can thrive only because people benefit from it. It suspends the rules of daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the cover of righteousness.\n\nWE THINK ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS\n\n3) Reputation\n\nReputation is tremendously important in theocratic Salem, where public and private moralities are one and the same. In an environment where reputation plays such an important role, the fear of guilt by association becomes particularly pernicious. Focused on maintaining public reputation, the townsfolk of Salem must fear that the sins of their friends and associates will taint their names. Various characters base their actions on the desire to protect their respective reputations. As the play begins, Parris fears that Abigail’s increasingly questionable actions, and the hints of witchcraft surrounding his daughter’s coma, will threaten his reputation and force him from the pulpit. Meanwhile, the protagonist, John Proctor, also seeks to keep his good name from being tarnished. Early in the play, he has a chance to put a stop to the girls’ accusations, but his desire to preserve his reputation keeps him from testifying against Abigail. At the end of the play, however, Proctor’s desire to keep his good name leads him to make the heroic choice not to make a false confession and to go to his death without signing his name to an untrue statement. “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” he cries to Danforth in Act IV. By refusing to relinquish his name, he redeems himself for his earlier failure and dies with integrity.\n\nWE BELIEVE THAT MUSLIMS ARE BAD AS IT IS THE AMERICAN THING TO DO. OTHERWISE - WHAT OF THE REPUTATION OF OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ?
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Very concentrated synopsis:\nA wife dresses up as a man to take a prison job in order to free her unjustly imprisoned husband.\n\nWho's Who?\n\nLeonore is a brave young woman who will risk anything to rescue the man she loves. She fools everybody into thinking she's a young man named "Fidelio" (meaning "Faithful").\n\nFlorestan is Leonore's husband and an outspoken enemy of tyranny and injustice. He has been rotting in a dungeon for two years and is near death.\n\nDon Pizarro is the evil overseer of the prison.\n\nRocco the prison warden, is Fidelio's boss, Don Pizarro's lackey, and a person of unusually ambiguous morality.\n\nMarzelline Rocco's daughter, is in love with "Fidelio."\n\nJacquino another young man who works in the prison, is in love with Marzelline.\n\nDon Fernando is Don Pizarro's boss, Florestan's friend, and the local minister of state.\n\nWhere and When?\n\nIn and around a prison in Spain. While Beethoven set this story in the late 1700s, opera houses today often update the timeless action.
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The general theme is the passage of time, and the need or desire to live as much as we can, as deeply as we can before our time here is gone.  "Time will not be ours forever/... Suns that set may rise again;/But if once we lose this light,/'Tis with us perpetual night"\n\nIn the moment of the poem, there is the classic situation of the boy (presumably) trying to convince his love-interest, Celia, to give in to passion and enjoy the "sports of love" with him, to use the poem's language.  \n\nThe lover uses a two prong argument.\n\nFirst, he argues that time is short and they, her especially, really shouldn't waste it, "Spend not then his gifts in vain."  He invokes a responsibility not to take the gift of time and life given them for granted.  A slightly more dignified argument, yet a sense of playfullness remains: "Cannot we delude the eyes/of a few poor household spies,/Or his easier ears beguile,/So removed by our wile?"  So at the same time he rebukes her rejection (one presumes she said no, at least initially, why then the poem?) for wasting precious time, he tempts her with a conspiracy--arm's length v. intimacy.\n\nSecond, he argues that it's not the act of lovemaking that is the crime, but the tattling or telling of it:  "'Tis no sin love's fruit to steal/But the sweet theft to reveal."  Fame and rumor are equally derided in favor of the moment, of the real, which here is the joy of love.\n\nThe speaker never really loses sight of his objective, even tho he dresses it up philosophically.  Playfully, he casts these arguments about, both putting her on the defensive and drawing her into a conspiracy of "us against the world".  Ingenious, really.  And fun.  Jonson was classical poet, brilliant, witty and very clever.  If you like this poem, you might try John Donne and Robert Herrick.
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I think one of the themes of the book might be that life is very unpredictable. Like Jenna, she didn't know that she was gonna be Mrs. Gladstone's driver/assistant for the summer and she didn't know that she'll meet sooo many people and everything. So i think that the theme might be "Life is unpredictable" or "Life can take you anywhere".\nAnother theme might be what's hard makes you stronger.
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Since it is a story that has been told, adapted, and read by millions of people for hundreds of years, I would say that makes it "timeless."  It contains universal themes that are relevant to every generation and even across cultures.  Themes like family grudges, young people in love, love/relationships that are doomed from the start.
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The Princess By Alfred Lord Tennyson\n\nman for the field and women for the hearth:\nMan for the sword and for the needle she:\nMan with the head and woman with the heart:\nMan to command and woman to obey;\nAll else confusion.
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We rented Pride and Prejudice finally, much to my wife's uncertainty. (I was an English Major in college so I'm always wanting to see these historical, literary movies.)I was doubtful, but my wife liked it very much. She usually falls asleep during most any movie, but she actually stayed awake for this one. As a gift, she bought the soundtrack for us.  It is beautiful.\n\nI haven't seen the other two, but on your recommendation, I might.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Major change in my concepts, philosophy and appreciation to human kinds, and being a helping hand.
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A theme is a general idea or thought throughout the story. Think of a "themed party." If your party is, say a princess theme, you might ask guests to come in princess costumes and pass out crowns and do other things that go along with the general idea of princesses. It's the same with a lot of books. Many of the characters, places, events, and objects are symbolic and help to express a general idea. Some simple examples are hypocrisy, loyalty, patriotism, and love. Unfortunately, not all themes are this simple. They may be more complex ideas like moral dilemmas or a religious idea. Many books often express more than one theme so it's hard to get that kind of question wrong if you read the book. If you give the name of the book, I could probably help you further.
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There are several.  The main theme is the struggle between freedom and slavery.  \n\nThese links should help.  Good luck with your project.
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The main theme of "The Great Gatsby" is the rise and fall of the American Dream. Look to the passage of the Dutch Settlers in the end of the book as an analogy of hope for a new start in America and then look to examples of how the main characters fail through their excess and misdeeds as to why the "Dream" falls.\n\nRacism is also a minor theme discussed through the book.
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Wuthering Heights is good, but taken...\n\ndoes opera count?  if so then the flower duet from Lakmé\n\nhow about theme music?  "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles (theme for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio show)\n\nor old 'uns:  "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs