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Charlotte Lucas says, “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” With close reference to two or three marriages presented by Austen, comment on the attitudes shown towards marriage and discuss how these have changed over the past two hundred
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Charlotte Lucas says, "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." With close reference to two or three marriages presented by Austen, comment on the attitudes shown towards marriage and discuss how these have changed over the past two hundred years. Marriage is a main theme in Pride and Prejudice. This can be seen by the opening lines of the novel, said by the omniscient narrator, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This opinion stated as a fact, was the typical attitude towards marriage held by the occupants of Regency England and can be seen as the attitude held by most of the characters in the novel, by their actions. For example Charlotte Lucas who believes "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." Over the last two hundred...
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