Letters Revealed A Literary Analysis of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion.

Letters Revealed A Literary Analysis of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion.

This project is a literary analysis of two of Jane Austen’s novels: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. The paper is an attempt to reveal how Austen uses letters to establish and to maintain a link between her readers and her characters. The focus of this analysis is on the use of letters to maintain connections between characters over time and distances, to show growth or change in consciousness, and finally, to reveal the character of the person writing the letter.