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Situational Irony
Chapter 4
Explanation and Analysis:
In Persuasion, Austen uses free indirect discourse, a style of writing that blends narration with the perspective of the characters. In Chapter 4, for example, Austen writes in third person while also writing from Lady Russell's point of view:
Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the changes of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!
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Chapter 6
Explanation and Analysis:
In Persuasion, Austen uses free indirect discourse, a style of writing that blends narration with the perspective of the characters. In Chapter 4, for example, Austen writes in third person while also writing from Lady Russell's point of view:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the changes of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!
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Chapter 7
Explanation and Analysis:
In Persuasion, Austen uses free indirect discourse, a style of writing that blends narration with the perspective of the characters. In Chapter 4, for example, Austen writes in third person while also writing from Lady Russell's point of view:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the changes of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!
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