Pride And Prejudice - The Importance Fo Marriage
Pride and Prejudice: The Importance of Marriage
Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen with the purpose of positioning us, as the readers, to share her attitudes on the importance of marriage. Austen had extremely radical views for her time. She believed that marriage should not occur on the grounds of superficial feelings, pressures to marry, or wealth and social status. The author believed that one should only marry for love. Austen uses characters as literary devices to show the readers the juxtapositioning between relationships who have married for love and relationships which have married for alternative reasons. By influencing the readers to believe that marriage should only be for love we begin to realize that it is this, and only this, which can enable the characters of the novel to be happy.
³It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife² (pg5). The first sentence of the novel Pride and......
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