Essay - Pride and Prejudice/communist Manifesto the Romantic Period of Literature Was...

Pride and Prejudice/Communist Manifesto

The Romantic Period of literature was marked by many representations of the reinforcement of tradition ***** propriety, as well ***** satire on ***** whole ***** the traditi*****s and challenges. The romantic period being marked by a change of h*****s, with the rise of the "new" moneyed rich, who had been a part of ***** great industrial revolution, presumably as a ***** of the group who h*****d walked upon the backs of others rather than been walked upon for another's gain. *****se newly rich characters were making every stride to live, as if they were members of an earlier and more foundational aristocracy. To do so they had to embark on building asset of rules and social demands that represented their desire for public acceptance. The creation was one of extreme ***** and political propriety ***** shadowed all other cultural *****. The game was afoot ***** the industrialists, wanted ***** represent themselves as wealthy, and though they were often seen by the "old" ***** aristocracy ***** vulgar, they had the m*****y to buy ***** be anything they *****. "While the focus of the dramatic action is on purely personal and domestic affairs, those affairs are shown to unf***** within quite spec*****ic contexts of social life that are, almost without exception, shaped by the pervasive influence of new money and by the individual desire, approaching obsession, to possess that money."

Watkins 78)

Many examples of this strict set of propriety can ***** seen in the literary tradition of the era. One example of the development of a romantic ideal is the novel Pride ***** Prejudice, populated by ***** that meet the ideals ***** the *****.

The Great Enchantress ***** in the ma***** a defense of the Gothic novelist as a woman of her time, fully cognizant ***** living in an age of tr*****sition and both accepting ***** denying ***** customs of her time. She could not be the ***** revolutionary because ***** cultural pressures on women at the end of ***** eighteenth century were too great to overcome. Her radicalism, ***** alien vision, is, says Miles, to be discovered in her subtext. On the surface she is always the gentlewoman; *****neath the surface ***** is someth*****g quite other.

Ryals 934)

Elizabeth Bennet is a cle*****r ***** of the ***** stage of the situation that Romantic ideals of ***** changing set of characters, rising to the top of the traditional setting of ***** wealthy. ***** had developed a keen sense of shame with regard to the manner in which her family conducted itself, so much so that the development of an occasion for Mr. Darcy ***** ***** her uncle, was welcome to her, as he was one of t***** only members of her family ***** she did ***** consider a vulgar and reprehensible soul. "Elizabe*****h could not but be pleased, could ***** but triumph. It was consoling, ***** he should know s***** had some relations ***** whom t*****e was no need to blush."

Austen 193)

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