Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0918 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Austen's Universally Acknowledged Truth
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The idea
Pride and Prejudice opens that it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Want means need, the sense unit three trained. The sentence sounds like a narrator stating a fact.
In practice
It sounds like a stated fact.
Where people slip
Want means need, not desire.
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