Part one of term paper
Jane Austen's is a novel of courtship. Like all of Austen's novels, it centers around the marriage plot: who will marry whom? For what reasons will they marry? Love, practicality, or necessity? At the center of the story is the title character, Woodhouse, a heiress who lives with her widowed father at their estate, Hartfield. At the beginni ...

Part two of term paper
... the Woodhouses, and Mr. Knightly (who owns the estate Donwell Abbey) are at the top of Highbury society. Mr. Weston had been married earlier. When his previous wife died, he sent their one child (Frank Churchill) to be raised by her brother and his wife, for the now-wealthy Mr. Weston could not at that time provide for the boy. Without Miss Taylor as a companion, adopts the orphan Harriet Smith as a protégé. Harriet lives at a nearby boarding school where she was raised, and knows no ...