Austens Manipulation of the Readers Emotions Towards Characters in Pr

Austens Manipulation of the Readers Emotions Towards Characters in Pride and PrejudiceIn her novels, Jane Austen employs the timelessly effective oddballization agents of dialogue, action, and point of view tocleverly manipulate the lectors emotions towards the characters.Austen successfully creates heroins in a time that it was not socialacceptable to think of women in a heroic role. She is so successful inapplying these characterization techniques in her story lines that shemolds a positive feeling towards strong females without the readereven realizing the influence the authors agents have had, at the similartime creating a very entertaining story. In Pride and Prejudice aswell as Mansfield Park for example, Jane Austen creates characters whoare some of the finest products of strong and agile women, yetdo not loose their femininity, of our civilization. She accomplishesthis feat by using the dialogue and action of the characters tomanipulate the readers feelings towards these w omen. Austen also usesirony, satire and image in all of her novels to show how ridiculousconventional Victorian country life was. She had a plethera of socialcommentary to make, and although women in her time period wereconventionally outspoken, she used her novels as a means to show womencould be intelligent, humorous, and strong without loosing theirfemininity.Jane Austen was a child of the Enlightenment, an age when reason wasvalued while many sentimentalist traditions were slowly coming to light insociety. As one of the educated and intelligent women emerging fromthis era, Austen used the character of Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride andPrejudice, to epitomize the harmonic balance between reason and... ...he more valuable when contrasted withthat of Kitty and Lydia, where Lydia simply encourages Kitty infoolishness and is insensitive to her when she is upset. Her highspirits,which can be construed as flirtatious, also attract Darcy toher, as illustrated by her demand that he help to sustain aconversation between them when they dance together at the Netherfieldball. Her character is in no way unfeminine, and it is no wonder thatDarcy is attracted to her after he comes to know and understand her.From this, we can see that Austen has managed to create her idealwoman in Elizabeth. Her strength and intelligence are qualities thatmake her respectable and admirable to any man or woman, but the factthat she possesses a softer, feminine side makes her actuallyattractive in the eyes of the reader, and helps us to betterappreciate her other qualities.