Cultural Depiction: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Jane Austen’s Emma (1996) and Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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2021
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UNIVERSITÉ ABBAS LAGHROUR KHENECHELA
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Reading Jane Austen is like reading an ethnographer describing a culture of a nineteenth
century British society paying much attention to its specificities. As masters of culture
description, Austen depicts in Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Emma (1996)the realities of
her society and the cultural aspects of life in that era. This study is concerned with the cultural
analysis of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma highlighting the nineteenth century
British society’s life and idiosyncrasies to see how Austen succeeded in making her novels an
expression of culture. Opting for achecklist-cultural-analysis, this researchcontextualises the
novels and studies them from a cultural perspective, for, as it is assumed, novels are an
expression of social life and cultural identity. This study enables for an examination of how
the writer’s times affects both works through two main chapters in which some cultural
elements are well-scrutinised namely: Marxism, Feminism, descriptive realism, free indirect
discourse, literary tourism, and cinema adaptation. In effect, this research shows that Austen’s
works are well developed books that demonstrate the societal and cultural views of the time
she was living in. Austen is regarded to be a conscientious woman writer whose subjective
narratives have unfurled the wondrous world of her times.