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Discuss Jane Austen’s presentation of the theme of love and marriage in “Pride and Prejudice”
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Discuss Jane Austen's presentation of the theme of love and marriage in "Pride and Prejudice": One of the central themes of "Pride and Prejudice" is love and marriage. Jane Austen portrays the different incentives of marriage using various characters as literary devices to explore relationships between characters who have married for love opposed to couples who marry for superficial reasons. She satirises the custom of marrying for practical reasons, or reasons other than love. Her views are seen through Elizabeth, the main character whose viewpoint we are most inclined to sympathise with as she herself firmly believes that one should only marry for love. This view was seen as quite radical for her time. Pride and Prejudice was set in the regency era, in a patriarchal society, where women's values were regarded as inferior to that of men's. Women had no access to property or voting rights and had limited access to...
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