Jane Austen's "Persuasion"

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This paper discusses the work "Persuasion" by Jane Austin. It discusses the central character Anne Elliot and the parallels to Austin?s own character. Comparisons are also made to the works of Wordsworth and Byron and how the upbringing of males and females was carried out in their times. Females being persuaded that their father knew best even on matters of the heart and girls only adventure being that of romantic thought.

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?Jane Austen?s Persuasion is a study of both the negative and positive effects of the value the text takes as its name. Persuasion by definition is a form of education; an education with a particular point of view designed to change an impressionable individual?s mind. In the modern conception of what is a good and valuable form of education, the individual in question emerges better able to make decisions as the result of education and persuasion. This is along the lines of the famous phrase, ?give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.?

"This conception of education, however, as Ann Astell points out in her essay on the Persuasion, is a highly Romantic notion, a relatively recent development in the history of modern concepts of the human intellect and human intellectual development.?

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