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Dr. V. Asokkumar M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, E.R.K. Arts & Science College, Erumaiyampatti – 636 905, Pappireddipatti (Tk), Dharmapuri (Dt). India [email protected] cognitive qualities with in her. She is also Abstract compared with Elizabeth Benet in Pride and Prejudice that Elizabeth is

In Jane Austen’s persuasion Anne representative of women being capable and Eliot develops as this individual of her own worthy to reason in the world of men, as well as shifts from passive to active. She whereas Anne’s individualism gives women finally marries Wentworth at the end of the something even more important in Austen’s novel, the marriage is not needed to assertion of the validity and worth of female complete her because she has already made emotions. Persuasion represents the her emotional transformation independent maturity of Austen’s work and more than of the marriage proposal. Persuasion is her other Novels. Austen’s more radical novel, because it account for and endorses a philosophy Introduction Jane Austen wrote “Men have had where action is based up on emotion, every advantage of us in telling their own instinct and interest for one’s own personal story”. Moers reveals, “Education has been happiness. In persuasion, Austen theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen dramatically shifts from creating her has been in their hands. Now women seized heroine as governed by propriety and the pen; and female self – consciousness reason to being permitted and encouraged brought heroinism to literature. As literary to respond and act based up on emotion and women have always been grateful to say, it instinct and assertion virtually unheard of all went back to the first heroine of letters, in the male dominated sphere of polite Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, not because society. Anne’s character serves to of her virtue but because; as she says elucidate and cement this shift in Austen’s herself. I have got such a knack of writing, tone and feminist worldview. Among the that when I am by myself, I cannot sit heroines of Austen Anne receives different without a pen in my hands”. Margaret

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Kirkham points out that, together with spendthrift, who lavishly over spends and Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen inherited he has brought the family into great debt. a common tradition of feminist By contrast Anne is completely free from development”. In the canon of British the snobbery which afflicts her father and literature Jane Austen occupies a high rank her sister Elizabeth. Anne’s judgments are among novelists. She is a realist and a correct because they are the outcome of practitioner of the domestic novel. Among earlier experience, and experience which her novels Persuasion represents the has involved her in much personal maturity of her vision and portrayal of her suffering. Moreover although she is female protagonists. ignored, she does not sit there feeling sorry for herself. Predicaments of Austen’s Heroine Portrayal of the Challenges in Persuasion is a story about the Persuasion Elliot’s family. Anne Elliot, the protagonist Jane Austen’s final novel, of Persuasion, is witty, clever and Persuasion, is an insightful portrayal of the considerate. At the age of nineteen Anne challenges faced by women in the 1800s. Elliot’s had fallen in love with Frederick The Story seen through the eyes of the Wentworth, but Anne disapproved to marry heroine, Anne Elliot. Her character him by accepting the words of Lady changes from passive to active over the Russell. Later Anne feels for her course of the novel. She holds both submissiveness to Lady Russell. This traditional and modern ideals to her should not be regarded as a weakness of character. Anne can be seen as the typical character. She acted passively no doubt, ‘sentimental core’, but at the same time she but as she later explains she thought it part is very headstrong. She can be seen as the of her duty to act in accordance with the emotional centre of the family. However advice of a woman whom she regarded as she is not always caring, she can also take her mother. Though Anne is on the whole on a more masculine role in certain a passive type of girl, she is capable of situations. This paper argues that Anne taking initiative when faced with a crisis. Elliot overcomes conventions as well as Sir Walter’s wife, the mother of shifts from passive to active. Through the Anne, died fourteen years ago and left him novel, Anne develops as this individual on with three daughters. Sir Walter is a

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However, Anne is not always brought the lovers together in that chapter. In it there is rather artificially contrived in caring. She can also take on a more masculine role in certain situations. When incident when Admiral Croft compels Captain Wentworth to give Anne a message Louisa falls from the wall, Anne is the most calm out of everyone in the party. She is which assumes that she is to marry Mr.Elliot. This message naturally makes it the most rational, ordering the stunned crowd to help wentworth and ordering necessary for her to tell Wentworth that she has no intention to marry Mr.Elliot, and Captain Benwick to get a surgeon for Louisa because “he knows where a surgeon Wentworth thereupon does the rest. Thus only an external circumstance compels her is to be found” better than anyone else there. Everyone begins to ask her “what is to play even the small part that she does play in bringing about her union with to be done next”? and looks up to her as if she were a man ordering people around. Wentworth. Her role is completely passive.

This shows Anne pushing against the In the revised chapters 22 and 23 boundaries of her sphere and breaking into she plays an active role. The problem was

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vastly different from the things she holds as She has learnt through suffering the true for Anne in persuasion. Elizabeth in true values of life and can appreciate them, debt and quick to see through the objectively, when she observes them in the haughtiness foolishness and misguided sea-going community with which she is ideals of her society and she is a genuinely brought into contact. Anne has only one kind individual who admires the same in thing to learn to have more confidence in others. Anne on the other hand is herself, to acknowledge that she might yet eventually, able to see the worth of her own arouse love. Except for this, she does not instincts and emotions, and to value her go through the educative process of the duty to herself and her own happiness other heroines.” But Anne is like the more above what society says she owes to her vital heroines in having her own quiet family and class. The narrative tone of decision of character, her own Anne’s voice in persuasion reveals a independence of outlook and of choice, and reassessment by Austen of the innate value an ability to express herself forcefully when of a heroine’s emotional life. the situation requires it:

Norman remarks that Anne, like Anne’s character serves to elucidate Fanny and Emma and is and cement this shift is Austen’s tone and the ‘eye’ of the novel-the events that take feminist worldvies. Among the heroines of place are witnessed and commented upon Austen, Anne receives different cognitive by her, but she is not the misguided heroine qualities within her. Anne’s individualism

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