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The paper discusses how in her novel "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen develops a vision of her society that is structured on the careful development of a sense of irony based on the gap between the way people think of their own behavior and the reality of that behavior. The paper describes how this irony is expressed in the comedy that shapes the novel, much of which is communicated by means of the language used by Austen.

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"In her novel "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen develops a vision of her society that is structured on the careful development of a sense of irony based on the gap between the way people think of their own behavior and the reality of that behavior. This irony is expressed in the comedy that shapes the novel, much of which is communicated by means of the language used by Austen. This approach begins with the first line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (Austen 1). Austen notes that this means that a new unmarried man in the neighborhood is seen as "the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters" (1)."

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