The Portrayal of Love and Money in Emma and Pride and Prejudice

The Portrayal of Love and Money in Emma and Pride and Prejudice

Introduction

Austen was one of the most famous and widely read novelists from the United Kingdom. Many researchers believe that Austen brought up, and education at home, played a pivotal role in inculcating the acute sense of precision, and fashion of reading, which eventually transformed into captivating writing. Jane Austen is amongst the most revered and celebrated novelist around the world, courtesy her audacity to incorporate the bitter reality of the society with her fictions. This paper will discuss the role of love and money in the novel Emma and will be closely referenced from the novel Pride and Prejudice. The discussion will be supported by different quotations from the Emma and some quotations will also be cited from the Pride and Prejudice. This paper will mostly focus on the novel Emma, while, the Pride and Prejudice will be used for the wider reference.

Discussion

Jane Austen, by many scholars and researchers, is believed to be an exception and an extra ordinary talent in this domain. Not only did her writings manage to captivate and enthrall her readers, but the manner and fashion of her writing required sheer courage and audacity. The purpose of Jane Austen's writing of Emma and Pride and Prejudice was to share her views on the importance of marital bliss and the class snobbery. Austen's views for her time were exceedingly revolutionary. She had this conviction that marriages should not be the result of superficial and shallow feelings, money or a means of climbing the social ladder. Austen was strictly against the thought of social class difference in a marriage; she believed that love should be the sole reason for any marriage. The characters are used by Austen to illustrate the positioning among the love marriages and the marriages took place other ulterior reasons like financial gains. She convinced the readers that love should be the only reason for marriage; this belief enabled the readers to realize that the happiness of the novel's characters entirely depends upon love. If their relationship is based on love they can survive that marriage otherwise the hope of their marriage's survival seems bleak.

The primary domain of her genre revolved around fiction based Romantic writing. Her novels revolve around love, money and marriage. The portrayal of money and love in the society of Jane Austen in depicted through the development of characters and plots in her novels Emma and the Pride and Prejudice. During that period marriage was based on these two factors i.e. money and love. A man with a fortune was considered as the best match for a woman to marry. The main character of the novel, Emma Woodhouse is described at the beginning of the book as beautiful, smart and rich. Emma Woodhouse is a well-heeled young lady of 21 who lives in Highbury with her father, a small village near London. The Woodhouses were among the first families ...