Loss And Regain Of Felicity

Jane Austen is the greatest woman novelist in English literature in the 19th century. She was the daughter of a clergyman and she lived in the countryside all her life. In her short life, she has created six complete novels and left behind three fragments. She lived in her limited world with her family, so it seemed that she was not influenced by the changing society at all. Unlike other realists in the 19th century, she has never dealt with social problems and revolutions directly. There are neither heroic passions nor astounding adventures in Austen's novels, which probably resulted from her limited life experiences. Living in the countryside all her life, she was good at describing the people around her. So in her novels, she created a lot of vivid characters of snobbish and arrogant squires. She satirized the snobbery, pride and vanity of the middle class people by humorous language.Apparently she wrote about everyday life, but in fact, some social problems were disclosed in her novels. Like other feminists, she cared about women's social position and claimed for women's right to work, and her point of view was reflected in her novels.Persuasion is Jane Austen's last and most mature work. Persuasion describes a complicated love story. Eight years before the story begins, the heroine Anne loves and is loved by Captain Wentworth, who is poor at that time. So Anne breaks with him under her family and her confidante Lady Russell's persuasion. Eight years later, Anne is given another chance, and she meets her former lover, who succeeds and is rich now. Though they still love each other, they have lots of difficulties in getting together.The governing theme of Persuasion is that society is responsible for individuals'...