Special education of uzbekistan karshi state university the faculty of roman-german philology

1.2. Specific features of her style.

Jane Austen began to write early, at first only for family entertainment, composing burlesque stories and short parodies on contemporary author. Though her days were quiet and her area circumscribed, she saw enough of middle-class provincial society to find a bases on which her powers of searching observation and imagination might create a faithful representation of the studies of her world notable for the author’s shrewd insight into human psychology. Her interest was in common place perplexities of emotion and conduct. Austen’s elaborate criticism of life as displayed in “Sense and Sensibility” (1811), “Pride and Prejudice” (1813), “Mansfield Park” (1814), “Emma” (1816), “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” (posthumous, 1816) – was directed against snobbishness, social pretentiousness, vulgarity and falsity. throughout all of these novels her gaze was steadily humorous and vionical. To other gifts she allied a perfect sense of dramatic progression and in admirably lucid prose style which make her stories delightful reading even after almost 200 years sense their first publication.

Austen’s analysis of her characters motives, the silliness and shallowness of their social values and standards is ever sharp and sensitive. She pokes fun at those who look down upon their neighbours for no better reason than comparative lack of money or rank {Thus the parson’s wife in her novel is very properly disgusted with self-enriched industrialists}.
Though Jane Austen’s novels are few, their range is fairly wide, from burlesque and parody as in “Northanger Abbey” to the story of the moral education of the heroine (Emma), from the unclouded gaiety of “Pride and Prejudice” to the thoughtful and mellow sadness of “Persuasion with its delicate delineation of suffering and error”
With the lady-novelists of he XIX^th century literature moved in more fashionable circles. Of these the art of Jane Austen is the most consummate and therefore representative. Through the very narrow social milieu (land owners, gentry, country clergy) that constitutes the theme of her novels, Jane Austen succeeded in bringing home the essence of the social relationships of her time. With unfailing accuracy does she draw a small world possessed by a yearning for money and high social standing, and deprived of either wish or capacity for using other criteria in their judgement over men and women but those of fortune and rank..
With a touch at once delicate and sure Austen introduces a vast variety of characters whose mentality is more or less distorted by false moral and social standards. Her irony and humour are omniscient and ever at the service utterly unsentimental comprehension of the motives underlying the actions and feelings of a vain, selfish and mercenary society. It is the few persons who are comparatively unscathed by these shallow and ugly motives that Austen makes her heroines.
Almost none of them are just born wise and virtuous. The most convincing of them are those who like Emma Wood house or Anne Elliott have to pass through a moral ordeal before they find that the only thing that really matters is the true worth of man and woman, his or her gift for disinterested affection, loyalty and generosity.
Jane Austen’s ethics are high and strict but they are never obtruded upon the reader. Her methods are mostly indirect. The authorial voice is disguised by objective presentation of dialogue inner monologue (reported speech), as well as of the characters’ actions and reactions. The “inimitable Jane” is warmly admired and much studied in 20^th century England and America.
Although Austen stands aloof the romantic trends of her own time and mocks some of their more obvious and salient characteristics, although she is a follower of 18^th century realistic traditions, yet her artistic detachment and her disspassionate survey of her contemporaries could only have been born out of the same critical and humanitarian spirit to the romantic movement.