ENGL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Opening Sentence, Aristocracy
30 Jan 2017
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It is a truth universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of wife pride & prejudice: opening sentence of pride & prejudice. One of the most famous sentence in english literature. Issue of marriage introduce and the idea that marriage is to be evaluated on the possession of goods. Sets up tensions between social demand and social expectations and individuals will. We don"t began the story with the principle characters darcy or elizabeth. Opening makes clear that the individualism that we associate with. Darcy and elizabeth, is framed by a context that at times seems to threaten them. Important that we don"t start with a line by elizabeth, instead we start by a sentence that shows the power of a community: opening sentence example of irony. While reading austen we must read between the line.
