The Role of Gossip in the Novels of Jane Austen

1. Introduction\nThe novels of Jane Austen provide us a valuable incursion into the domestic life of the nineteenth century England which comprises customs and duties of the higher(prenominal) levels of society (aristocracy, gentry, and middle class), their leisure-time deed of conveyanceivities, and relationships; and outline the rigid well-disposed well-disposed stratification and mobility of that time. It is, however, important to emphasize that they atomic number 18 primarily concerned with the politeness of communication.\nAustens characters ar seldom whole or unaccompanied, meditating upon their feelings and attitudes but instead the contrary: they are nearly constantly engaged in many different social activities varying from the morning calls and great walks to the afternoon parties, dinners and county balls which leave spot for the usual exchange of civilities and the required conversations about the weather and the demesne of roads. But, as soon as these court esies are exhausted, which happens ordinarily truly early in the novels of our concern, the characters oftentimes turn to discuss matters of preferably an home(a) nature which usually include other characters private affairs and their suitability for jointure as far as their descent, wealth, quickness of mind and attraction are concerned. In short, the characters of Jane Austen are prone to gab. Therefore, Jane Austen achieves the detailed imprint of all the above-mentioned social issues mainly by the numerous dialogues between the characters which proportionally flow over the descriptions of any kind.\nTherefore, the dialogues and the dialogues comprising gossip especially help describe the characters, their opinions and attitudes towards other characters; and provide us the typology of characters in terms of the air of their speech. Also, the major characters usually act rashly and excitedly when they have or are told a piece of news which is intimate in nature. A orbit of events is thus often triggered, which every complicat...