The Theme Of Time In Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jane Austen And...

The theme of time is one presented in the works of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jane Austen, and Robert Browning through their characters and speakers perspective of time and what it does for the . In Sir Thomas Wyatt’s, They flee from me, displays time perceived through a character’s point of view. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice portrays the historical time period in her novel while Robert Browning’s The Last Duchess describes the speaker manipulating and wanting control of time. Altogether, the three authors present a different outlook of what time means to them and their speakers. Thomas Wyatt’s poem of They flee from me provides the central theme of time in two different ways, how time is perceived through the eyes of the speaker and how†¦show more content†¦In Jane Austen’s novel of Pride and Prejudice, there is a representation of time in the sense of historical time. During this period, marriage was acceptable for the act of social s tatus and financial ability, not for the purpose of romance. This historical time and the culture impacts individuals because there are two options, marry someone of the same class or go against the norm and marry someone of lower status, however the second option is frowned upon among society. Thus, if you do want to defeat the norm, you are also up against society’s perspective of you. This idea is reinforced whenever Lady Catherine claims that if Elizabeth were to ever accept Darcy’s hand in marriage then Elizabeth â€Å"will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him† since Elizabeth will have been one that ruins the destined relationship between Miss De Bourgh and Darcy. The tone of Lady Catherine is critical because it displays her harsh judgmental of class status, also being a voice for the majority of society who wants classes to be separate, not intermingle. The purpose of this is for Elizabeth to be frightened of the consequenc es with possibly marrying Darcy, even though Elizabeth retracts with witty comments, this makes Lady Catherine furious through their conversation.