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Analyse Jane Austen’s presentation of love and marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice. From your evidence suggest what Austen regards as a good marriage.
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English and English Literature Prose Coursework Analyse Jane Austen's presentation of love and marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice. From your evidence suggest what Austen regards as a good marriage. In the novel Pride and Prejudice marriage is one of the major themes and was for English novels at this time. In the 18th century, the time Jane Austen was writing, novelists would write about relationships usually ending in marriage. The opening sentence of the novel: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." shows the importance of marriage in the novel. Jane Austen's opening sentence sets the main theme of the novel, marriage. The sentence is very ironic implying that very often parents with daughters assume that single men of wealth want to marry, which may be the last thing they want. Marriage in the 18th...
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