Read the short excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice below. "Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous. Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet. They had several children. The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend."Based on your knowledge of point of view and irony and the passage above, in what way does Jane Austen's point of view in her novels contribute to the themes she wants to communicate?Works CitedAusten, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Thomas Egerton, 1813. Her use of an omniscient point of view creates a personal relationship with a narrator who predicts the actions of her characters. Her use of an omniscient point of view allows her to show the irony in the thoughts and the actions of characters from different social classes. Her third-person limited perspective illuminates only her main character, focusing a reader's attention on one character and the lessons she learns. She uses a third-person limited narrator to create suspense and uncertainty in her readers, underscoring the uncertain fates of the young women in her novels.

Read the short excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice below. "Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous. Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet. They had several children. The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend."Based on your knowledge of point of view and irony and the passage above, in what way does Jane Austen's point of view in her novels contribute to the themes she wants to communicate?Works CitedAusten, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Thomas Egerton, 1813. Her use of an omniscient point of view creates a personal relationship with a narrator who predicts the actions of her characters. Her use of an omniscient point of view allows her to show the irony in the thoughts and the actions of characters from different social classes. Her third-person limited perspective illuminates only her main character, focusing a reader's attention on one character and the lessons she learns. She uses a third-person limited narrator to create suspense and uncertainty in her readers, underscoring the uncertain fates of the young women in her novels.

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Read the short excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice below.

"Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.
Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet. They had several children. The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend."

Based on your knowledge of point of view and irony and the passage above, in what way does Jane Austen's point of view in her novels contribute to the themes she wants to communicate?

Works Cited
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Thomas Egerton, 1813.

	Her use of an omniscient point of view creates a personal relationship with a narrator who predicts the actions of her characters.
	Her use of an omniscient point of view allows her to show the irony in the thoughts and the actions of characters from different social classes.
	Her third-person limited perspective illuminates only her main character, focusing a reader's attention on one character and the lessons she learns.
	She uses a third-person limited narrator to create suspense and uncertainty in her readers, underscoring the uncertain fates of the young women in her novels.