Irony At Its Best

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Submitted by: bignerds
Date: 06 / 28 / 2008
Category: English Literature
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The ironic conversations Jane Austen displays in the novel Pride and Prejudice convey how irony in novels tremendously influences the reader.   Jane Austen gives her characters ironic thoughts and manners that make her characters seem life-like.   The irony used in Pride and Prejudice can be interpreted in few ways by the reader.   One may agree with the character and his/her irony and another reader may totally disagree.   For example, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett's irony is sarcasm towards each other.   In fact, Mr. Bennett does not use as many sarcastic phrases as his "counterpart,"   Mrs. Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett's whole relationship is based on sarcastic criticism of each other.   Mr. Bennett speaks to Mrs. Bennett about being acquainted with Mr. Bingley, by complementing   her, smoothly, by poking fun: "You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them Mr. Bingley might like you best of all of the party" (6).   This can be taken to mean that Mr. Bennett has a minuscule amount of respect for his wife and has become disinterested in her.   In response, Mrs. Bennett says, "I certainly have had my share of beauty," (6) not noticing the sarcastic tone provided by Mr. Bennett.   This demonstrates Mrs. Bennett's gullibility, in regards to her beauty.   Mr. and Mrs. Bennett pay little attention to each other's feelings, like siblings.   Mrs. Bennett's opinion of the other characters changes frequently throughout the novel.   "Pray do not talk of that odious man!" (54) exclaims Mrs. Bennett when speaking of the heir to their fortune, Mr. Collins.   She is making it crystal clear that she does not hold Mr. Collins in high prestige.   Why does Mrs. Bennett change her mind about, "the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces" (62)?   This demonstrates Mrs. Bennett's change in attitude towards Mr. Collins, a superior being.   Mrs. Bennett complains to...

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