“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (Austen 1813/1994: 5)
The famous opening sentence of the even more famous novel anticipates the majority of Pride and Prejudice´s content.
This Bachelor thesis examines Jane Austen´s representation of marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813 in England during the Regency Period.
Pride and Prejudice contains every sort of marriage a person like Jane Austen could imagine in those days: matched marriages, concerned of “making a good match”, the romantic love marriages including marrying under one´s social rank, and the disastrous incident of lovers eloping.
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Bennett: A functional marriage through ignorance
3 Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins: The Marriage for Convenience
4 Lydia Bennett and Mr. Wickham: The Catastrophe of Elopement
5 Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy: The Romantic Marriage
6 Jane Bennett and Mr. Bingley: Love marriages
7 The Marriages That Never Were: Motifs and Reasons
8 Conclusion
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