Before My Time

In order to enjoy a new book I must begin by using the tips that we learned about a good reader. The one that got to me the cost was being a positive reader. Before the video I used to foolishly think that some authors just wrote something good out of luck. In other words, I believed that Shakespeare did not write so many great pieces but that people over studied him. I now realize that it is stupid to question authors because the point is that they did it. If it was luck a reader should not be bake to know or care.

Pride and Prejudice is definitely a classic. It is because of this simple reason that I must read it as an optimistic reader. It is hard for me to take it seriously since it appears to be a simple novel. It might have been revolutionary at the time but it is somewhat standard now. All of this goes back to the idea that it is very hard to write something original today. The first thing I analyzed was the title. I noticed that the importance was the difference between connotation and denotation. What we might consider the meaning of pride today is very different from what Austen meant it to be. In my search I found a definition inside the book: "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."" (Austen, 21). It is not as different as we consider it today. Austen then relates to a theory we have come to in Spanish class. A series of great authors are considered extraordinary today because they were able to see what was going to happen after their time.