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My essay will be exploring the different forms of persuasion, where it occurs in the story and the effects that it has upon the characters in the novel. In its most basic form persuasion means Gaining power over others. ... The essay will therefore, be looking at the different moral dangers faced by the characters and how they act upon them.
Throughout the novel, persuasion is expressed in many different forms with many different outcomes. One of the most obvious and most powerful ways it is expressed is through family persuasion. Family persuasion means simply to be influenced or affected by the attitudes of the family. ... This has had some very detrimental effects on Anne in her later years, because now she has very little self-confidence and whenever she is told how good she really does look she will not accept it because of Sir Walters years of put-downs. ...
Lady Russell has however not always exhibited such positive persuasion. For instance when Captain Wentworth (who was a mere soldier at the time) proposed to Anne when she was eighteen, she would have very willingly accepted his offer because she felt very strongly for him. ... Lady Russell clearly believed therefore, that if Anne had married him then she would be just throwing her life away because of a soldier who had nothing but himself to offer her. Anne reluctantly agrees with Lady Russell and declines his offer. ...
Now when Anne and Captain Wentworth have been thrust into each others company once again they both use a great amount of self-directed persuasion. ... Therefore because Anne was using self-persuasion to persuade herself about what she thought Captain Wentworth meant, she missed out on what he was really trying to say, and so continued to believe that he was not interested. ... "
For them to accomplish this they would have to use direct persuasion (where someone intentionally persuades someone to do what they want. ... Sir Walter could however take their persuasion the wrong way, he may believe that they are trying to put him further in debt or try to run his life as though he cant do it himself.
A much more common theme later on in the book is social persuasion - this is when the public take on an idea which then gets spread around as a certain truth when really it could be nothing more than a rumour. ... By now everybody believed that Anne and Mr Elliot were engaged when really Anne knew nothing about this and had never even been proposed to by Mr Elliot (incidentally even if she had been she would have declined his offer). It is morally dangerous for the public to do this because when they spread around these rumours they dont think about the effect it is having upon the people its about.
Approximate Word count = 2274
Approximate Pages = 9.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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