Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

Prologue: For a young woman living a presumably insular life in Regency England, Jane Austen produced an impressive body of works that has continued to grow in popularity. She was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England to a parson’s family, and she left home only for five years to attend boarding school and for occasional visits to siblings. Surrounded by books all of her life, she found an eager audience for her writing among her close-knit family. Although she never married and had only one serious romance, her novels of courtship and marriage have remained favorites. Austen completed the first draft of Pride and Prejudice, which she titled First Impressions, in 1797, but it was not published until after she had rewritten it nearly sixteen years later. Of her six complete novels, Pride and Prejudice seems to have been her favorite. In a letter to her sister Cassandra she referred to the book as her “darling child” and called her protagonist Elizabeth Bennet “as delightful a character as ever appeared in print.” Jane Austen’s work seems little touched by political events in her world or by major literary trends of her day. She focuses instead on themes of social class, middle class manners, gender issues, courtship and marriage, all of which come together in Pride and Prejudice. Perhaps it is these timeless themes that draw readers back again and again to this novel. This guide aims to assist teachers in planning to teach the novel in ways that will make it accessible to the range of readers in contemporary classrooms. To this end there are suggestions for preparing students to read the novel with sensitivity to Austen’s setting and themes. During-reading activities are included that will facilitate students’ reading the novel actively with comprehension. The post-reading activities are aimed at encouraging a deeper exploration of the content of the novel and making connections with other literary works. The variety of activities presented here can be used selectively by teachers in addressing their goals for teaching the novel and responding to the needs of their students.

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