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How does Jane Austen manipulate the reader's understanding of the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy?
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How does Jane Austen manipulate the readers understanding of the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy? "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife". In the first few lines we get a taste for Jane Austen's use of irony. To someone reading the novel shortly after it was written, the whole story would be ironic. The idea of someone such as Mr Darcy ever marrying someone with connections such as Elizabeth Bennet's was virtually unthinkable. In the second sentence, we realise the irony of the first by Jane Austen's sly attack on husband hunting females. The opening chapter contradicts the first well-known sentence of the novel using the characters Mr and Mrs Bennet. Their marriage reveals the gulf between marriage and love. Conversations between the couple show their irritation with one another. A particular exchange displays this 'when...
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