Matriarchal Assertiveness in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Eliot develops as this individual of her own as well as shifts from passive to active. She finally marries Wentworth at the end of the novel, the marriage is not needed to complete her because she has already made her emotional transformation independent of the marriage proposal. Persuasion is Austen’s more radical novel, because it account for and endorses a philosophy where action is based up on emotion, instinct and interest for one’s own personal happiness. In persuasion, Austen dramatically shifts from creating her heroine as governed by propriety and reason to being permitted and encouraged to respond and act based up on emotion and instinct and assertion virtually unheard of in the male dominated sphere of polite society. Anne’s character serves to elucidate and cement this shift in Austen’s tone and feminist worldview. Among the heroines of Austen Anne receives different cognitive qualities with in her. She is also compared with Elizabeth Benet in Pride and Prejudice that Elizabeth is representative of women being capable and worthy to reason in the world of men, whereas Anne’s individualism gives women something even more important in Austen’s assertion of the validity and worth of female emotions. Persuasion represents the maturity of Austen’s work and more than her other Novels