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Jane Austen's characters Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse and their social position
HRDÁ, Linda
This thesis aims to analyze the social status of the main characters in Jane Austen's novels, specifically Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The bachelor thesis is divided into four chapters. The first deals with the author Jane Austen, her life and work, and then focus on the authors who influenced Austen in her writing. The second chapter brings us closer to the time when the author lived in England in the 19th century. The era was called the Regency Era and we going to look at the role and differences in the lives of women and men and the economic situation, both in general in the 19th century and in Jane Austen's novels. Examples of how much the main male characters earned going to be given. The third part finally focuses on the main character of the novel, Emma. It describes the features that make Emma different from the other heroines in the rest of Austen's novels, while also discussing her position in the circle of society in which she existed. The second sub-chapter reveals the relationship with the closest characters with whom Emma came into contact. The last chapter of Elizabeth Bennet has a slightly different structure than the previous one, even though the work tries to cast the main characters in the same light. It defines the limits of the Bennet family, which is related to their income and therefore limits their social status in society. Elizabeth's womanhood is also included in the last chapter. At the end of the work, I compare our two heroines, specifically their personalities, views on marriage, character development, and social status.
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The Effect of Social Class on Marriage in the Works of Jane Austen
HOSPODÁŘSKÁ, Martina
This diploma thesis focuses on the differences between social classes in Regency England at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the extent to which these social inequalities affect the formation of marriage in the six completed novels of the author Jane Austen. As this period was also marked by the disadvantaged position of women in society and in marriage, the thesis also includes an analysis of these issues and the distinctions in rights and responsibilities between male and female characters. The overall aim of the thesis is to highlight the conditions under which the characters in Jane Austen's novels decide to enter into marriage, what role the differences in social status play for them when choosing a partner, and whether they take into account their feelings or rather economic and social reasons when doing so.
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Hidden Feminism in Jane Austen's Novels
ZEMANOVÁ, Eva
The goal of this paper is the analysis of hidden feminism in the works of Jane Austen, namely her novels Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. The bachelor thesis is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the living conditions of women in the upper middle class. We will pay attention to several specific aspects of their life and expectations connected to their social status. In the second part, we will concentrate on the display of these aspects and their feminist interpretation in the work Pride and Prejudice, namely through its main heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and the situations she faces. The third part focuses on analysing of the work Mansfield Park, describing the difficult standing of Fanny Price, the main heroine of this novel. Finally, the thesis pays attention to factors which demonstrate Fanny's self-development and the feminism hidden in this novel.
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