There would not be any kind of jealousy or competition between Miss Bingley and Elizabeth, or Elizabeth and Miss King. The marriageable women of the novel would not have to debate between choosing spouses by preference and marrying for financial stability. Bennet would not have to actively seek husbands for her five daughters. If it was “a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” then the women in the novel would not have to struggle so much. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen uses satire, characterization, and narrative voice to explore the vocational nature of marriage for women in her society.įrom the first line of Pride and Prejudice, the narrator reveals her satirical approach to matrimony.

Certain formal aspects of the work further inform us on Austen’s opinion of matrimony. Austen develops the plot to hint at a more considered view on marriage. The monetary and social stability that the marriage offers women is more important than the compatibility of the spouses.

Unlike Elizabeth and Darcy’s affectionate relationship, many characters in the story make marriages of convenience. Although almost everyone marries by the end of the novel, some of the women of Elizabeth’s world are not as well-matched with their husbands as she is with hers. However, this novel is more than a simple love story. Its comedic structure entertains readers with the fluctuations of Elizabeth Bennet’s relationship with Mr. Our book Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere: How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion by Sla… - 19:56:36 on Ĭlick on the link to know more about a recent piece by Geoffrey Heriot for the Australian Institute of Internationa… - 19:56:36 on Īcknowledgment of the book on International Broadcasting.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is often lauded as one of the greatest romances in British literature. Out Now! This book explores the works of Aphra Behn synchronically through word counts and statistical measures. Our author Jorge Heine is interviewed in a podcast on his new book on Active Non-Alignment. Please find the link to an article by our author Jorge Heine with a colleague published in Foreign Policy Magazine,… - 19:56:36 on The most-read article on the website! Our author Jorge Heine's article has been published in a leadi… - 19:56:36 on Our author Jorge Heine is giving a public lecture at the Boston Public Library on May 31 on his book. Rather, it is about the etymol… - 19:56:36 on Book launch of Challenging the Narrative: Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict SituationsĪndrew Nette's book is about war, specifically about early battlefields in Britain’.

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