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?The ?Print Revolution? had transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge.? Analyse the statement.

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Distinguish between the themes of ?Pride and Prejudice? and ?Jane Eyre? novels written by Austen and Charlotte Bronte respectively.

Answer:

It transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge and with institution and authorities. It influenced popular perception and opened up new ways of looking at things:

(i) Printing reduced the cost of books. The time and labour to produce each book came down and multiple copies are produced with greater ease.

(ii) Due to easy access of books, illiterate persons can listen the sacred texts of religious books/ folk tales and ballads were recited,

(iii) Before print revolution, books were not only expensive but they could not be produced in sufficient numbers. Now books could reach out to wider sections of people.

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(i) The novelists Jane Austin and Charlotte Bronte the main idea of novels of is centered around women but both of them have different ideas and opinions.

(ii) The first line of Jane Austen?s ?Pride and prejudice? states-It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of wife. The observation of Austen can be simplified that women always are preoccupied with thinking of marriage and money.

(iii) In Charlotte Bronte?s ?Jane Eyre?, young lady Jane is shown as independent and assertive, while girls of her time were expected to be quite and well behaved, Jane at the age of ten protests against the hypocrisy of her elders with startling bluntness.