Continuing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class, today we are moving on to theme. For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Theme: Choose a novel or short story that you like and try to discover its theme. How does the author get the theme across? Title? Plot? Names of characters?

WARNING: SPOILER stuff here. Although I don’t know how many people reading my blog haven’t read/seen/been forcibly made familiar with this one by now, I will still provide the warning.

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Theme: Don’t judge a book by its cover – or there is usually more than meets the eye

The theme is relayed through the title (both the final title and the original, which was “First Impressions”), the plot/story development, character names, and even the book’s structureAusten uses all of these tools to distinguish her characters and their particular foibles.
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