Feminism and Post-Feminism in the novel Pride and Prejudice

Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is a remarkable novel of Jane Austen. Although in her age, women are regarded as emotional, pathetic, compassion, and submissive. Austen illustrates her heroine, Elizabeth as a woman who has her own perspectives, feelings, and belief. This paper analysis Feminism and Post- feminism in the novel Pride and prejudice from its aspects. This novel is restrained in patriarchal society, that is, it negotiation with custom and tradition of its time. Jane Austen was born in December 1775; she was the seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra Austen. She wrote her first novel at the age of 14.She wrote six novels. All her novels were very popular in still.