Analyse the provided extract from Pride and Prejudice, discussing ways in which the narrative voice and dialogue are used.
Title: Analyse the provided extract from Pride and Prejudice, discussing ways in which the narrative voice and dialogue are used.
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Analyse the provided extract from Pride and Prejudice, discussing ways in which the narrative voice and dialogue are used.
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 1642 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
BEGINNING OF EXTRACT: ``And so ended his affection,'' said Elizabeth impatiently. ``There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!''
``I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,'' said Darcy.
``Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Every thing nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a …showed first 75 words of 1642 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1642 total…us to not only engage with Elizabeth but also 'see' the wider themes through her use of the narrator. The style of narrative techniques changes so often, that we are always 'seeing' things from differing perspectives which is one of the charms of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
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Bibliography
Jane Austen, 1992 edition, Pride and Prejudice,
Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Classics.
Pam Morris, 'Reading Pride and Prejudice',
in Dennis Walder (1995 ed.), The Realist Novel,
London, The Open University