s her opinions.The sexism of the time also affects standards of men and women and Jane Austen shows that. Agreeable men are described as handsome, polite, rich, and well connected. Not once is it said that a man needs to paint well or speak seven languages, a clear contrast to the scrutinization of every aspect of a woman. Austen is not mocking the accomplishments, she is ridiculing that the accomplishments are forced ones. A woman does not practice her piano fingering for hours each day because she think it’s fun, she does it because that is what a woman is supposed to do. The author is disagreeing with the detailed examination of every woman to see if she fits with society’s guidelines, as opposed to the vague ideas of a perfect man and the lack of scrutiny that men face.The evidence presented can create no doubt that many aspects of this book express or favor main tenets of the feminist cause. However, the question is if the opinions expressed were intentionally put there by Jane Austen in order to put across her own feelings. The answer is definitely yes, but two positions can be taken against this argument. The first is that the feminist opinions in the book are coincidences, and the second that Jane Austen took various opinions of her time period and put them into the book in order to make it interesting. The feminist opinions in the book cannot be coincidences because they are made up of too many different factors. Sure, Jane Austen could have disliked the perfect ladies, but odds are that she wouldn’t have shown the unjustness of the social standards between men and women as well or any of the other previously stated points as well. There are too many continuously supported feminist views on different parts of the lives of women in order for them to be flukes. They had to be motivated by the author’s feelings towards the subject. The second position taken agains the argument is also incorrect...
