Jane Austen's Narrative Style

Introduction

Jane Austen was a renowned British novelist who wrote during the period of the regency. The irony that was presented in her novels made Jane Austen renowned among the "classics" of the English novelists, as well as even now, she is being read by a wider audience.

Her works have been used ??in films at different times, sometimes faithfully reproduced, as the classic “Stronger than pride” in 1940, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and starred Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Same is the case of Clueless, free adaptation of Emma, or Sense and Sensibility, in 1995, Mansfield Park, in 2000, and versions of Bride and Prejudice (directed by Gurinder Chadha) in 2004, and Pride and Prejudice (directed by Joe Wright) in 2005. Both based on the famous novel, Pride and Prejudice. The work of Jane Austen continues to attract people even today and it shows the validity of her thought and the influence she has today's literature.

Description and Analysis

Her novels contain a message instruction, indicate the good performance and provide a sort of fictional experience, but maintain the classic principles, that is, commensurate with the realities and offer, therefore, a story where the elements lend themselves to constitute the truth of the events described. Jane Austen shows have a good taste for propriety and utility, both influenced by their Christian religion and the moral tenor of its composition. She acknowledged in her works feature of a "dramatic sermon." The educational aspect, on the other hand, is expressed in a concise manner, i.e., occurring accidentally during the course of the work and not presented to the reader in a way forced, but rather natural. Austen's novel is a rational unity of interwoven stories and events to create a common and logical argument.

This author does not use a model of character, virtue or vice perfect. Her philosophy is not only to rescue the light of goodness in what is presented as its opposite, but also to highlight the weak and ephemeral good. It is her conception of humans as social beings, and therefore not individual, which leads to abstract and isolate it (Claudia, 13).

It is a common fact that Austen's novels find small social groups, generally composed of families living in rural settlements. Her work demonstrates how remained indifferent to the political debates of her time, while exposing the rural environment that addresses the different mentalities and ways of thinking, without falling into class differences. Jane Austen was also characterized by her heroines in a state of youth and immaturity, but with full of good will. Minded Plato regarded the soul as the epicenter of the family unit, not a republic (Booth, 78).

Writing Style

With unsurpassed charm and subtlety, Jane Austen's novels of country life present and appraise the manners, morals, and relationships of Regency England's prosperous middle class. In choosing to depict what she called her “bits of ivory,” the segment of the world she knew best, Jane Austen steered the course of the English novel away from the melodramatic ...