Jane Austen movie review

Jane Austen movie review

Jane Austen wrote a romantic movie known as Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is about Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist, who discovers that decisions have their repercussions. In the book, Elizabeth also discovers that actual goodness and superficial goodness have a significant difference. The novel contains comedy in its depiction of education, honesty, money and marriage. Mr. Bennett has the only daughter, and he must have a son to pass down the inheritance. This means that his family will become poor after he dies, this means one of the daughters will have to take care of the family. Pride and Prejudice discuss the importance of marrying someone for love rather than marrying financial gain. Despite the pressure for the social world to make a good match, one should understand the relationship with their in and marry for love rather than for economic status. Pride and Prejudice is one of the most loved books that have great use of Irony.

Austen uses different types of Irony in her books. The Irony is defined as a way of using words to convey a meaning that is not intended to mean and usually means the opposite. Irony can be verbal, dramatic or situational and is informally noticed by the audience in this case the reader. The reader can see and understand the Irony in the story before the character realizes it. Jane begins the book with the statement, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” ( Austen). Jane makes a statement that is a universal truth; however, she lets her readers, later on, know that the account is only what she would like to believe. She later on to explain that her book will be about marriage and its importance. Another example of Irony is when she begins the album warmly, letting the reader know that she is about to tell her married life. However, she, later on, warns the reader that her topic on marriage life is not going to be a pleasant one. Jane Austen uses sarcasm in her book; for example, the first sentence is supposed to be sarcastic because she does not believe in this statement that is considered to be a universal truth

Verbal Irony can also be seen in Janes, pride, and Prejudice. Elizabeth always speaks witty and sharply to her husband. She gets this attitude from her father, who is still speaking the same way. Despite Mr. Bennet being a calm and sensible he finds himself speaking ironically. This is because of of his wife is always sarcastic. In the book, verbal Irony is mostly intertwined with humor making it hard for most of the readers to miss the verbal Irony. Elizabeth can be seen mocking most of her friends like Mr.Darcy, whom she refuses to dance with. Verbal Irony is the most common type of Irony found in the book. Most of the conversation Elizabeth bennet has with her husband is filed with verbal Irony and sarcasm. Despite describing marriage as a beautiful thing, readers confirm later on in the book that the couple has its ups and downs.

Austen also uses dramatic Irony in her book. This is when the reader is aware of something that the character has no clue about. Dramatic Irony in Pride and Prejudice is mainly between Elizabeth and Darcy. Elizabeth sees Jane as a person who is always seeing fault in others. She understands that Jane is blind to reality. This is ironic to the reader because Elizabeth still sees errors in Darcy. Elizabeth always perceives other people in the most incorrect way. Moreover, dramatic Irony can be seen through Darcy, who behaves in an ungentlemanly way despite being a gentleman. Furthermore, he is entirely unaware of his feelings towards Elizabeth. This is something that the reader has already noticed. His sudden want to dance with Elizabeth shows that he likes her. However, Elizabeth still believes that MR. Darcy dislikes her and is only asking to dance because he likes to act like a gentleman. The situation in the novel becomes exciting and humorous due to Elizabeth’s reactions when she is asked to dance.

Another example is the Bingley sisters who hate the Bennets for their bad behaviour, but ironically, they behave similarly. They enter into a friendship with Jane and forced pretenses and also becomes a rival to Elizabeth. Elizabeth tries to warn jane of the Bingley sister’s friendship, but Jane refuses to believe her. However, the truth is revealed to jane when the sister gets back to London, and the sisters decline to help her after she reaches out. Mr. Collins is also an ironic character because he views himself as a church person but still behaves like a self-satisfied, arrogant man who seems to judge everyone. The Dramatic Irony in Pride and Prejudice keeps the novel interesting mostly because Jane Austen can mix wit, humor with the dramatic Irony.

Situational Irony is also seen as janes Austen pride and Prejudice. Situational Irony is when one thing occurs, but the exact opposite was expected to occur. In this case, only the readers or sometimes the characters can wait for such a turn of events one example. One example of situational Irony in the book is when the characters are at a party, and Elizabeth is asked to sing, and dance, the rest of the party joins in. Mr. Darcy is also convinced by sir Lucas to join them on the dance floor. He refuses to do so claiming that every savage can dance. However, later on, Sir Lucas manages to convince to ask Elizabeth to dance in which he happily accepts and asks Elizabeth to dance. This is an excellent example of situational Irony because Mr. Darcy did not want to dance and had even insulted sir Lucas when he asked him to join him in dancing. It is the exact opposite of what he was expected to do. Moreover, this change of behavior in Mr. Darcy is also an example of janes humor and wit.