stratification in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice are reshaped in Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice through form, contextualisation and imitation. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, written in 1797 for the benefit of her family, but later published in 1813, is a social satire, mocking many of the social values of the time. Austen does this through her omniscient third person narrator, a new style at the time, and intrudes into the scene with sarcastic jests at the characters who conform to the views Austen wishes
By developing unconventional female characters that defied social customs, Jane Austen sought to transform misogynist beliefs formed by society. Living in a patriarchal society dominated by men and harsh gender roles in England, Jane Austen utilized her literary pieces as a framework to critique cultural values. She used the ideology of marriage and her heroines’ refusal of courtship to effectively and strategically chastised sexist views on gender and marriage. Her development of defiant characters
Pride and Prejudice is renowned for its strong feminist message. Kate Rorick has argued that “Elizabeth Bennet makes her own path in society, rejecting Mr. Collins and eventually marrying for love”. Whilst Elizabeth Bennet as a character, arguably more than any other Austen heroine, polarizes readers and critics alike, it is possible to argue that this independence leads to “dislike and rejection”. In Literary Theory: The Basics Bertens argues that “female independence…gets a strongly negative