1. Module A Essays

2. A deeper understanding of relationships and identity emerges from pursuing the connections between Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. Compare how these texts explore relationships and identity.

3. Topic Sentences
Despite a difference in context, both Austen and Weldon share a critical view of the restricting nature of education and the way in which it often limits one’s personal and moral development.
Austen and Weldon are united in advocating the importance of reading to the advancement and growth of the individual.
Austen and Weldon are connected by the way they criticise superficial and ineffectual education using their novels to promote a more meaningful and moral education.
Through their respective texts, both Austen and Weldon are interested in examining the female experience. However it becomes clear through their treatment of marriage, that there has been a shift in the expectations and rights of women.

4. In reading P&P and LTA one can see how the social expectations of women, particularly their ability to make independent choices, has shifted across the two different contexts.
The shift in the social expectations of women from limited freedoms to the ability to make independent choices is illuminated through a study of Pride and Prejudice (P&P) and Letters to Alice On First Reading Jane Austen (LTA).
The comparative analysis of Austen and Weldon’s criticism of women’s roles, especially through the treatment of marriage, allows for the individual’s understanding of both texts to be heightened.
Austen and Weldon correspondingly advocate the importance of reading in empowering the individual by enabling one to grow.
An examination of the misuse of power by authoritative figures in society allows both Weldon and Austen to challenge notions of social responsibility.

5. To what extent does your comparative study of Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, demonstrate that the conflict between an individual and society is an important universal concern?