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An Odyssey of Jane Austen’s Life and SocietyOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The aIm of this thesis is to study the theme of conflict in the novels of Jane Austen; a novelist regarded by critics as being one of the most prominent and distinguished novelists in English literature. The study reveals that Austen perceives the world through an awareness of its contradictions and oppositions. In each conflict, the main characters are confined to two different, opposing and conflicting ideas or principles to convey the absurdities of life. Austen seldom mentions the public events or the great wars of her time in any of her novels. She is just involving in a war of ideas and creating her novels with a double vision and she succeeds to resolve the plight by the end of the novels.
The novels are grouped thematically, regardless of their chronological order. Each two novels, except the last, are handled together on the basis of their common theme and selected conflict. The conflict between ”illusion” and” reality” in Emma and Pride and Prejudice, the conflict between ”self” and ”society” in Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility, finally, the conflict between ”materialism” and ”morality” or between ”town” and” country” in Mansfield Park.
The thesis concludes that Austen is a social and moralist writer with an extraordinary power of observation, who consciously sees others’ different and opposing natures and their contrasting points of view. Her characters grow mature through their mistakes and suffering and she will only tolerate the best of them. In fact, Jane Austen faithfully tries to solve the problems of her society but without trying to play the preacher’s role.