Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel written by Jane Austen. In this novel, we can see the difference between the attitude of men and women toward marriage in Pride and Prejudice and which way men and women view marriage. This novel is more than a simple love story. almost everyone marries at the end of the novel But they look at marriage from different views. Jane auster portrayed negative models of marriage based on a long-established understanding of the role of gender and a desire to meet real social needs on the other hand, in the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy and through the powerful independent heroine, she proposed a new model that is built on understanding, love, and respect.
Some women in Elizabeth’s world do not get along with their husbands as much as they do with him. In contrast to Elizabeth and Darcy’s affectionate relationship, many of the characters in the story are conveniently married. The financial and social stability of married women is more important than the harmony of husband and wife. Austen develops the plot to suggest a more considered view of marriage. Some formal aspects of the work make us more aware of Austin’s views on marriage. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses characterization, and descriptive voice to explore the professional nature of marriage for women in her society. When I was reading this novel I discovered that the main theme of the novel is marriage and the different types of marriages described in this novel. I will point out that marriage in arrogance and superstition is not only the essence but also important for the existence of women in the 18th century.
Our first marriage in Pride and Prejudice is between Mr. and Mrs. Bennetts. These two negative examples illustrate the importance of mutual respect for marital happiness. Mr. Bennett treats Mrs. Bennett like a fool, and Mrs. Bennett, in return, exercises her sole authority. A survey in the November issue of Glamor found that most men obtained by the magazine said they judge a woman by her family. This fact has become a major obstacle between the universally recognized Elizabeth and Darcy, Darcy reveals an issue in an explanatory letter to Elizabeth after she rejected the most infamous marriage proposal of all literature. Darcy’s objection to the marriage between her friend Bingley and Elizabeth’s sister Jane, she explains in the letter, ‘deserves so much impersonality, so almost the same betrayal has been done [Mrs. Bennett], by your three younger sisters, and sometimes even by your father. Forgive me. It hurts me to hurt you. ‘It insults Elizabeth at first. But once his arrogance subsided, he acknowledged the truth and legitimacy of Darcy’s concerns.
These family objections, of course, have been overcome in time for later happiness. But Darcy has recognized, wisely, that she is marrying into a family and that she is open-minded and. prepared – as much as possible – to accept this fact of life. In fact, my own âhappiness after a long time, many years later, came into a family that included my elderly parents. Anyone who doesnât believe you should marry a family should talk to a man in my husband’s condition. Lydia views marriage is like typical, She doesn’t value marriage for its traditional value and lives in sin with Wickham before they married. Through Pride and Prejudice, we can see the result of typical marriages at this time through the use of characters analogous to Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Their marriage has acted as a bush-league relationship between them and through this, we can see their really different personalities which have been reflected in their children. Austen portrays them as definitely repugnant, Mrs. Bennet’s business of her life was to get her children married. Her station toward marriage is as if it were her âbusinessâ. She may find no very joy in the task and only workshop to secure her family’s future. She seems most concerned and happy when a plutocrat is involved and especially keen on Mr. Bingley’s vintage. Marriage to Mrs. Bennet is a pocket trade. While, in heavy unlikeness, Mr. Bennet concerns himself with reading and sticks recreations and finds his woman foolish and finds recreation at her outlay. His view on marriage, notwithstanding, is possibly too relaxed, and doesn’t willingly go to Mr. Bingley to introduce himself. At the time marriage was indeed vital to secure oneself, so Mr. Bennet’s apathy is reckless parenthood. Notwithstanding, through Mr. and Mrs. Bennets’s different personalities Austen was remarking on the need for peace in a relationship. Mr. Bennet hourly has definitely lost interest and lacks love for his woman and spends the maturity of the unprecedented presumably trying to wake his favorite sire (Lizzy Lizzy) of his mistake. When he asks her if she’ loves’ Mr. Darcy, one of our final moments with Mr. Bennet, we realize his motives and misjudgments all on This idea of marriage for security is most reputed in the character of Charlotte Lucas. Charlotte Lucas is the eldest child of her family. She’s described as being a sensible, intelligent youngish woman, about twenty-seven, and was Elizabeth Bennet’s intimate friend. She was considered mature in the period and because of this, she realized marriage could well pass her by. She’s yea seen to auction Lizzy not to slight Mr. Darcy at the Netherfield Ball. Yea though she knows that Lizzy despises him, she deems her a simple tonic she appears unpalatable in the eyes of rich Mr. Darcy.
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In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen criticizes the construction of marriage in society and questions the task of the traditional society at this time, On that era they consider women as objects and beautiful icons who have no rights to marriage and education. Parents thought that if they could marry their girls to a rich established boy then their daughters would be happy their responsibilities were over then and they would be more worried about their marriage rather than their education. and we can see different’s person different views and attitudes toward marriage.
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