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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen: The Novel and Social Realism

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen: The Novel and Social Realism

STUDENTS' SAMPLES

Gloria González Skender

Nieves Canales

Adrián

Héctor Álvarez

MAIN IDEAS / KEY WORDS NOTES

What is the significance of the documentary? 

The significance of this documentary is to explain the unique style of Jane Austen's novels, which focus on the everyday lives of people and their moral dilemmas rather than extravagant plots. Austen believed that reading provided a private space for readers to work out their own problems and indulge in fantasies through the activities of characters in her novels. She also introduced the interior space of the heroine and natural conversation into the novel, which were new and revolutionary elements at the time. Her novels gained respect as a contribution to the development of social realism, and her characters were often recognised by her readers as real people.

How does Jane Austen use vocabulary to contribute to and convey her message?

According to the video, Austen's books are all about giving readers a space to deal with their own moral issues and live out their fantasies. Austen focuses on normal people and their lives, instead of wild adventures and crazy plots like other books in her time. And she's super innovative, using the heroine's thoughts and feelings and realistic dialogue to make her stories seem like real life. All of this contributes to a style of writing called social realism, which is all about showing life the way it really is.

NOTES SUMMARY(This section sums up the key points about the topics.)

The documentary is important because it communicates the ideas...

Key points:

Jane Austen saw reading as a way for readers to have a private space to indulge fantasies and work through moral dilemmas.

She combined social realism with moral seriousness in her novels, focusing on the ordinary morality of life such as falling in love, relationships with parents and neighbours, and trying to determine who means well and who does not.

Austen stripped away the improbable incidents and adventures that were common in novels at the time and instead focused on the lives of ordinary people.

She created an interior space for the heroine, with the psychic space of the heroine becoming increasingly important in her later novels.

Austen introduced natural conversation into the novel, with characters stumbling and speaking across each other, which was a departure from the dramatic monologues common in novels before her time.

Austen's characters were recognisable to her readers as real people from their society, which demonstrated her ability to create believable characters based on the observable ingredients of real life.

Agustín

Clara Campos

Noa Durán

THE NOVEL AND SOCIAL REALISM 

SUBJECT: Literacy

NAME: Noa Durán Casares

DATE: 14/02/2023

NOTES:

What is the significance of the documentary?

The documentary is important because it tells you how Jane Austen worked, what she thought, how she wrote... And being an important writer it's very interesting to know all those things about her.

How does Jane Austen use vocabulary to contribute to and convey her message?

Jane Austen used vocabulary to contribute to and convey her message by the inferior space that she carves out for the heroine, instead of her novels INstead of her novels being a string of adventures that are enacted in the world outside, the psychic space of the heroine becomes increasingly important. We see this development in the novels. Another important ingredient is her introduction of conversation into the novel and her contribution to the development of social realism at this time, which was quite remarkable in bringing something natural into the novel.

NOTES SUMMARY:

The documentary is important because it communicates the ideas of Jane Austen. ThESEis are some of them:

NOTES:

Jane Austen seems to be saying in her novels, that reading carves out a private space for the reader - a space in which they can indulge fantasies and also work over their own moral dilemmas and problem throughout the activities of others and I think this is what she saw as the purposes of her novels - that she combined a close social realism with a certain moral seriousness -  a belief that the actions of the novels -  the kinds of activities her characters are indulging in, which after all are the activities of everyday life, like falling in love, the relationships between parents and  their children.She is feeding that into the novel and suggesting that the new novel that she is carving out, should be concerned with those issues. And this is new because the novels as she finds it, in the early 19 th century, is full of extravagant plots, adventures, improbable incidents and what she strips away is that improbability- concentrating instead on the lives of people rather like the rest of us-  if we accept that the rest of us are, as it were, the middling classes and the gentry.

If we try to reduce her novels to their plot elements we find that there is very little there. Her novels are novels in which the most important things that may happen are whether or not we can afford to have a ball in the village. In her own days, readers quickly realised that she was doing something new in the novel and she gained a very respectable reputation as an ambitious novelist.

Pablo Luis

Pablo Muñoz