What makes pride and prejudice funny

She introduces caricatures and character foils to further show how ridiculous a character may be. Austen also uses irony quite often to inform the readers of her own personal opinions. When an action is exaggerated on stage by an actor, it becomes all the more noticeable to the audience.

An author can exaggerate a character in order to make fun of them. Austen exaggerates many of her characters and therefore makes caricatures of them in order to emphasize their ridiculousness. Bennet is such a character. Her extremely unpleasant manner and reactions cause readers to delight in the situations in which Mrs. Bennet places herself into. Collins is another exaggerated character in the novel. But would such characters seem humorous without somebody to react to them?

Not at all. Such exaggeration works only when you place them beside another character who seems very real.

Bennet is placed beside her husband to make her look all the more ridiculous and Mr. Collins, when placed especially by Elizabeth, seems to be unbelievable at times.

Therefore, caricature, the exaggeration of character is an essential tool to Austen as means of portraying irony in the novel. The irony is an excellent way for authors to combine wit and drama at the same time. It works well in many parts of Pride and Prejudice. It provides humor for the readers, yet at the same time, it revolves around the basic plot of the story.

It is a great balance between ironic dialogue and movement towards the scenes in the climax of the novel when the relationship is developed. Another great example of her ironic wit can be found in the first chapter of the novel when Mrs. Bennet and Mr.

Bennet discuss the new tenant of Netherfield Park, Mr. Bennet gives another. Lady Catherine: Has he, has my nephew, made you an offer of marriage? Elizabeth: Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.

Lady Catherine: It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason. But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in. Elizabeth: If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it.

Lady Catherine: Do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all. You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by every one connected with him. Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned by any of us. Elizabeth: These are heavy misfortunes.

But the wife of Mr Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine. Lady Catherine: You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it.

I have not been used to submit to any person's whims. I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment. Collins is an example of an exaggerated character in There is not much said about the Collins' after they marry. Jane Austen proved that there can be humor and comedy in a serious situation. Austen also used her own morals, values, and way of thinking within the novel. Sheridan creates a satirical masterpiece in his play and clearly displays some of the many absurd characteristics that were prevalent among the individuals that made up his own culture.

The character that Sheridan used to satirize the trait of ignorance of education in women was Mrs. Malaprop was easily one of the most humorous characters in the play because of her subtle errors in the usage of the English language. At various times throughout her dialect, words would blatantly be misused due to their approximation in sound to the correct word that was appropriate to the context of her dialogue.

For example, when Mrs. She is also able to appeal to her audience by using irony in a comedic way. In this case, the theme of women is what influenced her use of symbolism. Her use of parody shows more about her feminism and how she believes that women should not be demeaned. Jane Austen was a remarkable young author that, although a woman, wrote significant stories that reflected her societal values with her unique writing style. Jane Austen's use of satire in her novels, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, break from the boundaries of sentimental writing.

This left Austen open to a lifetime of criticism, only to be hailed after her time as one of the greatest writers of the English language. Much of Austen? Bennet, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine, Mrs. Jennings, and others. All of which are amusingly oblivious to anything deeper than the rules and aspirations set by society. The dialogue of their interactions and the irony of their situations add humor as well as reinforce the idiocy presented by the very first line of Pride and Prejudice, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" Austen 3.

With the addition of Mary Bennet, her awful musical numbers, and her lackluster personality, Austen adds a little flare to the situation.

By adding these characters, Pride and Prejudice transforms into a rollercoaster novel which takes it onto a whole new level. Austen clearly makes it known through her depiction of Mrs. Collins, and Mary that those who concern themselves only with the opinions of others, that they will ultimately make fools of themselves.

Readers learn to enjoy these scenes since laughable situations come up in the middle of the dramatic ones which makes for an easier-to-follow reading.