Styles and themes of Jane Austen plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity. Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy. In particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage market. Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of "Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." At first glance, the sentence is straightforward and plausible,
You Make Me Want to Be a Man Despite being released promotionally in North America and Japan, the song failed to place on any of their record charts. "You Make Me Want to Be a Man" is Utada's first and remains her only single not to place in any Oricon or "Billboard" charts in Japan. The song also failed to place in any Taiwanese or Korean chart. Released in the United Kingdom, it failed to reach the top 100, peaking at number 277. Despite this, it is her first and only single to chart in the UK. The accompanying music video for "You Make Me Want to Be