Write about the way characters are created in the three text studied you have studied. The three texts which I have studied are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Robert Browning poetry as well as Khaled Hosseinis allegorical novel The Kite Runne

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Write about the way characters are created in the three text studied you have studied.

Character development in texts are very important, it makes the readers feel that they know the character themselves as they are gradually being developed, which can be through their speeches, dialogues and actions. The three texts which I have studied are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Robert Browning poetry as well as Khaled Hosseini’s allegorical novel The Kite Runner. In each text there is a major character development which is shown to the readers some by first person narrative such as using the first person narrative technique in The Kite Runner and the Browning’s poems which are ‘The patriot’, ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’ and ‘The Bishop orders his Tomb’ whereas in Jane Austen’s social comedy novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ the author uses third person omniscient narrator to create characters in her novel. Both in Hosseini’s novel and Browning’s poetry ‘the Patriot’ and ‘the bishop orders his Tomb’ use the same technique to develop their characters through the use of introspection in contrast with Jane Austen’s novel and one of the Browning’s poetry ‘Pied piper of Hamelin’ which both use third person narrative to create their characters.

Jane Austen in her novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ creates the character of Elizabeth right at the beginning of the novel through the dialogue between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s, who she is described as intelligent as Mr. Bennet’s says ‘Lizzy has something more of quickness’. Immediately the readers are aware of what Elizabeth throughout the novel may appear as through a use of speech coming from one of the main characters in Austen’s novel. As the readers carry on reading the novel they begin to realize that the character of Elizabeth is much like Austen herself, who was also intelligent and not traditional like some of the ladies in her time were. Elizabeth in Austen’s novel also appears to the readers as someone who was looking for true love which might be the reasons why she appears so firm in her thinking of the society and how they react to marriages; the readers see this as she and Charlotte have a conversation through the use of dialogue in chapter 6. Austen rather than using the technique of third person narrative used a dialogue instead, this might be the reason because she wanted the readers to know that whatever Elizabeth thought of marriage were exactly what Austen herself thought too. She develops her character as an independent woman who thinks that relaying on societies thinking was something she disagreed too, she appears to have a very modern way of thinking.

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As the novel reaches its climax point, the readers see that Elizabeth is a very independent woman who turns down not only one proposal but two proposals without any element of concern in her mind. Saying earlier in the novel that she doesn’t believe in marriages just for comfort is what she determines to stick to when she receives a proposal from Mr. Darcy, a wealthy man earning ten thousand a year however this changes when she visits the Pemberly estate in chapter 43, where Austen describes her feelings as ‘to be mistress of Pemberly must be something’. The structure ...

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