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Persuasion Jane Austen

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While reading Persuasion I sensed that Austen’s idea was that we always get a second chance. Anne Elliot let the influence of others break up her engagement to Wentworth, the man who we soon find out is her one true love. Austen adds in colorful characters, a love triangle, and a family debt in order to spice up the “one who got away” story. The title, Persuasion, is well place considering all the persuasion placed upon Anne during the end of her courtship with Wentworth. Women at this time didn't have the opportunity to defy their families, it would be a scandal if a young women were to run off and marry a man that her family disapproves of. Austen makes it know that Anne is in pain from her prolonged absents from Wentworth. Austen uses
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