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Works of Jane Austen: Essay Questions And Answers

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Essay Questions And Answers

1. Show how Jane Austen establishes the connection between moral defects
and failures in awareness.

Emma is a complex study of human deception and self-deception. Throughout
the book, characters are deceived by appearances, fool themselves and others,
pretend to be what they are not. Their expectations are mistaken; their
actions grounded in false premises. The author reveals the motives and
consequences of these failures in perception by having their false
understanding culminate in actions whose effects are the opposite of ...

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