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Irony in "Pride and Prejudice"
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... "Irony is central to the meaning and effects of Pride and Prejudice." How far and in what ways do you find this to be the case? Jane Austen initially worried that Pride and Prejudice was a work "rather too light, and bright, and sparkling" to justify its moral themes - yet it is for its dazzling ironic wit that the novel is prized today. The multi-faceted device of irony is deftly manipulated by Austen: first the mischievous narrator, who finds "great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which, in fact, are not [her] own," then the "explorer of incongruities", (Mudrick) exposing the absurdities of character, and finally the moralist, revealing complex principles and themes. The most immediately apparent form of irony in Pride and Prejudice is its verbal irony, which is used by both the narrator and a few characters to highlight the absurdities of other characters to comic effect,
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