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This Essay traces the progresses of the heroine, Elizabeth’s efforts to be free from the society in which she has been comfortably embedded, and analyzes her use of irony and wit as strategic means for social criticism. In this novel, irony is used by both the heroine Elizabeth and the author Jane Austen to show the limits of the people around her. The people whom she observes with irony are of several types and represent the values imposed by the society, the foundation of which is grounded on the values of wealth and rank. Wit is another strategy for the heroine to assert her independency and freedom. It is a disguise for her argument. Therefore, the dialogues between Elizabeth and Darcy can be seen as a dialogic conversation, culminating in the mutual understanding. Darcy’s pride and Elizabeth’s prejudice show the conflicts between individual freedom and conventions of the society, which are resolved in their marriage. Also the marriage symbolize the birth of new society in which the virtures such as honesty, responsibility and mutual respect overcome the barriers of the worn-out conventions.

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• 조일현 [ Cho, Irl-hyun | 한중대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820