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=Jane Austen = topic- how Jane Austen portrays women in her novel > homely household womanly virtue is ever being taught. > -- Jane Austen, letter of March 13, 1816
 * 1) she always portrays women as strong and independent
 * 2) something she stressed in her novels was how important it was for women to marry well
 * 3) women have a sense of irony and razor sharp wit
 * 4) Austen’s heroines are represented at their best–strong, independent yet loving and dedicated to family
 * 5) a woman's reputation is very important
 * 6) they are excepted to behave in certain ways
 * 7) stepping outside of socials norms could lead to be ostracized
 * 8) their class status is inevitable
 * 9) a women s education was only excepted in certain areas
 * 10) they have a strong grasp of a traditional female role
 * 11) female characters were excepted to marry to improve they're situation in life
 * 12) women had limited options and needed to make the best of them
 * 13) all women want to be married
 * 14) women are often portrayed as more clever than men
 * 15) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">her characters are often in dominate positions even though they're women
 * 16) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">aggressive women could be accepted
 * 17) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women must keep a spotless reputation
 * 18) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">woman's out ward manners show their moral character
 * 19) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women must follow the rules of propriety to succeed
 * 20) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women should use lively debate to get around social rules
 * 21) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women play important roles in life
 * 22) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women are judgmental
 * 23) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women are quick to display their emotions
 * 24) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">common sense is important for a women s success
 * 25) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">they must find a way to deal with the social requirement to get married
 * 26) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women were oppressed
 * 27) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">she always has a strong female leading character
 * 28) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">many times her female characters were youthful and energetic
 * 29) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">female characters are fixated on marriage
 * 30) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">marriage is the surest route to happiness for women
 * 31) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women should marry for love
 * 32) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">unmarried women had no significant role in society
 * 33) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">other women s poor decision effect the women around her
 * 34) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women should want to move up in social standing
 * 35) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a lack of social grace would harm a women
 * 36) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">foolish women can be found at every level of society
 * 37) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">reading is an important way for women to better themselves
 * 38) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">living with a man out of wedlock completely ruins a women
 * 39) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a smart women can change her mind
 * 40) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">marriage for some women was the only way out
 * 41) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women could improve their social status by marriage men really could not
 * 42) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">female characters have a strength of will
 * 43) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">female characters have self respect
 * 44) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a sane women must want to be married
 * 45) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">in her time period women were rarely written about
 * 46) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">beauty was a women s most important quality
 * 47) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">it was difficult to be a woman then
 * 48) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">rules must be followed no matter what
 * 49) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jane austen’s novels challenge the role in which society placed women
 * 50) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She treats women not as fragile creatures, but as competent human beings capable of making rational decisions
 * 51) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A young woman in the aristocracy was expected to marry into wealth if not also into upper class
 * 52) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women as means of bettering oneself in addition to money in general are prevalent
 * 53) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the lines of class for women were strictly drawn
 * 54) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women were not expected to maintain a life for themselves
 * 55) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Anthony Trollope declared that Throughout all her works, a sweet lesson of
 * 1) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">it was okay to marry for money and status
 * 2) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">men were easily ambulated by women
 * 3) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">suitable matches were well thought out
 * 4) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">it was up to a women to ensure she was as smart as a men
 * 5) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a woman's accomplishments were limited to music, drawing, and languages
 * 6) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">it was considered a violation of etiquette for a woman to decline a man's invitation to dance
 * 7) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women are not meant to be taken seriously but Austen's characters are the exception
 * 8) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">her characters make their decisions independently
 * 9) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">presents a rather cool and objective view of the limited options open to women
 * 10) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jane Austen wrote: "...you must not let anything depend on my own opinion. Your own feelings & none but your own, should determine such an important point".
 * 11) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the purpose of such accomplishments was often only to attract a husband
 * 12) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">makes a positive statement by having Elizabeth insist on being treated as a "rational creature", rather than as an "elegant female", when trying to make her "No" be understood as "No" to Mr. Collins.
 * 13) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony"
 * 1) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">there was no real way for young women of the "genteel" classes to strike out on their own or be independent
 * 2) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Few occupations were open to them -- and those few that were (such as being a governess, i.e. a live-in teacher for the daughters or young children of a family) were not highly respected, and did not generally pay well or have very good working conditions
 * 3) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lady Catherine: "Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life"
 * 4) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">marriage is pretty much the only way of ever getting out from under the parental roof
 * 5) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In addition to all these reasons why the woman herself might wish to be married, there could also be family pressure on her to be married
 * 6) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women must be willing to overcome obstacles to get what they want
 * 7) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the warping effects of society can be over come by a women
 * 8) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a women should perfect her ability to socialize
 * 9) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">mastering courtship is critical for a women
 * 10) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">control of language is something a women must master
 * 11) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">not all her female characters marry for love
 * 12) <span style="color: #f24ab7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the main female character crosses social boundaries and women roles for the time period

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