Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
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Jane Austen's Persuasion depicts a young woman's struggles with
love, friendship and family. Anne Elliot who is pretty, intelligent and
amiable, had some years before been engaged to a young naval officer,
Frederick Wentworth, but had been persuaded by her trusted friend Lady
Russell to break off ....
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.... sister and brother-in-law. Throughout the years
Anne has remained unshaken in her love for Wentworth. Thus Austen creates
a emotional fairy tale which keeps you dreaming and makes you believe that
true love never dies.
Austen presents her strongest feminist character in this novel.
The roles of hero and heroin are reversed and men and woman are presented
as moral equals. It is interesting that the most explicit feminist
protests by Austen in her novels all have to do with literatu ....
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