ENGL 3P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bildungsroman, Edmund Burke, The Marriage Plot
2 Dec 2015
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She wants to open up other possibilities and open script. The novel ends in a really metafictional moment: page 185 middle giving away the plot. The fact that austen is very self-reflexive drawing attention to the process of composition and the rules of composition: the ending comes across as extremely artificial and metafictional. Shes saying these kinds of happy endings are unlikely. Because the way that the marriages happen is about eleanor finding happiness. No one is a one-dimensional character, they are mixed can be good or bad. Eleanor is right to think about if there will be more violence and riots in london. Though she is not writing a preface saying its a political novel, there are still many political references: page 130 -gardens - there are refrences to enclosure. Reference to the enclosure act that were passed in parliament. They were about a rise of largescale farms with the increase of population and urbanization.
