JANE AUSTEN NOVEL: PRIDE AND JUSTICE

Jane Austen Novel: Pride and Justice

Jane Austen Novel: Pride and Justice

Introduction

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in the absence of a woman." (Austen, 2000 1) Jane Austen uses this as the opening of his novel, Pride and Prejudice. Through this event, the reader can assume that marriage will play an important role throughout the novel. The idea of marriage during the 19th century was very important for women to be guaranteed an independent life and social status. Austen describes her idea of "perfect" than the one in which the economic and social compatibility, with love, respect and support each other (Joan, 2004). Austen explores the different kinds of love and marriage, issues that each couple is in the novel. She uses these characters to create and illustrate the comparison between the ideal marriage, which are not appropriate.

Topic 1

After a couple of whom Austen describes as stupid and irrational George Wickham and Lydia Bennet married for the wrong reasons. Lydia, the youngest of the Bennet family, is no more charming a young person whose heart is in the men in uniform. Wickham, on the other hand, a handsome man of the militia is in fact a man with a hidden agenda, so to speak. Wickham with a past full of money and fraud debts hidden in their efforts to attract inevitably Lydia eloping with him and planning their wedding. As we find later in the novel, Wickham had been paid by Fitzwilliam Darcy to marry Lydia, and he used the money to pay the debts of his past (Tennant, 2003). Therefore, Lydia is married to a man who cares about her much less than it cares about him. That is exactly how Elizabeth, Austen principal and a big sister Lydia feels about her marriage

"Wickham affection for Lydia was just what [I] had hoped to find, is not equal to Lydia for him ... His flight was caused by the force of his love, rather than his own, and she 'is asked, without caring for his violence, he chose to Elope with her at all ... "(Austen, 2000 70)

Topic 2

Elizabeth, the protagonist of the novel hates marriage of his sister, and said he hopes that this kind of love between two hollow Lydia and Wickham (Wright 2005). This example of an unsuitable marriage of Austen shows that if we should marry, then marry someone who feels the same towards you to maintain a healthy relationship, or perhaps an unfortunate.

However, some of Austen allows your partner to address its shortcomings and still manage to maintain a relationship. Mr. Bennett is a man with a sense of humor, sarcastic, and most of the time, used to irritate his wife. Mrs. Bennet, and difficult meddler, wants to marry his five daughters and to seek his fortune in real estate if Mr. Bennet should convey. Bennett Marriage is not ideal. Mrs Bennet Mr Bennet married, because of its ability to provide ...