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Rachael Hill 17th February 2008 With reference to key chapters and important relationships discuss how Jane Austen presents marriage in Pride and Prejudice. What comment on marriage does she make? Pride and Prejudice, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies" that she wrote. The novel opens with the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". This tells us that the main focus of the novel is going to be about marriage. The story is set in Jane Austen's time, when marriage was very important for security, wealth and a home to live in. The story centres on the Bennet family and their quest to find their five daughters suitable marriages. Mrs. Bennet's sole interest in life is to see her five eligible daughters well settled and happily married...

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