Comic Characters in Pride and Prejudice

... Essay on Comic Characters in Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen wrote the novel, Pride and Prejudice, during the early 19th century. During this time, most of the female novelists would base their plots on 'tacky' love stories, all with similar scenarios. Austen however broke the trend. She based her novel on the follies of human nature, and wrote a controversial but highly amusing novel. Her book exposed the foolishness of the society she lived in and how human behaviour of her time was in some ways ignorant. She used comic characters to portray this, and does it in a highly amusing manner. She uses comedy to portray her view on society, to make the novel more light hearted and not seem as controversial, whilst also making the reader laugh at the 'follies' of human nature. At the time pride and prejudice was written, society was based on strict rules

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