Pride And Prejudice By Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet is the main female character of Pride and Prejudice. Through Elizabeth’s character, sarcasm from Austen is seen. Society during Pride and Prejudice consists of low, middle, and high classes. Women were commonly taught how to be proper and was well educated, making them a better candidate for marriage. Unlike women during her age, Elizabeth did not receive anything like that and that’s what makes her different. Women like Elizabeth was said to not be able to find a marriage partner, but she did with Mr. Darcy. Austen is being sarcastic about women during this time because of the background Elizabeth is in and how she found a marriage partner in the end.

In today’s society, young girls have been taught to believe in their perfect Cinderella wedding where they will marry their Prince Charming in a beautiful dress and eventually live happily ever after. The film industry portrays marriage as picture perfect, in which every girl has their dream wedding and true love always finds its way. Contrary to the media’s view, marriage was not always a fairy-tale because women had the responsibility to help provide for their family. During the English Regency period, young girls married for financial security and social benefits to improve their family’s status. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet rebelled against this mainstream idea of marriage set by society, in order to marry for true love.

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813(Gary vii) a time when women had “few legal and economic rights or even receiving little respect, women can be seen as oppressed victims of a patriarchal society, subordinate first to their fathers and, then, to their husbands who had, of course, been selected by their fathers” (Swords, 76-82). At first glance one might think that Pride and Prejudice reinforces sexist stereotypes, however upon further examination of Jane Austen and her heroine Elizabeth it is clear that Pride and Prejudice in fact erodes the sexist stereotypes of women.

Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Collins in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice epitomize the two type of women of the era. Elizabeth is strong willed, independent, and wants to marry for love. Charlotte is the opposite. She is easily swayed by a man’s pocket and uses marriage as a way to move up in social status. Elizabeth and Charlotte are foils of each other.

Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonestly may be intended either to help or to hurt. In Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, George Wickham deceives the characters within the novel. Wickham fooled the Bennet family, especially Lydia, and attempted to fool Mr. Darcy and his young, innocent sister. Wickham purposefully lied to these characters to benefit himself and continue to live in his lavish lifestyle.

‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ are seen as being mainly concerned with social class and the wealth of those who are in the upper class but readers must consider other themes the novels are concerned with.

Austen uses Pride and Prejudice as a means to express her views on marriage, without being didactic. She frequently satirises views which oppose her own. Austen was a believer that men and women should be more equal. This view was also shared by feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, who had once said, “virtue can only flourish among equal”. However, Wollstonecraft disliked the social hierarchy, whereas Austen respected it and thought whoever was at the “top”, deserved to be there. Austen believed that marriage should not be a means of climbing this hierarchy she idealised. Although this opposes the social conventions, Austen agrees that elopement should be condemned and accepts that wealth and social standing must be taken into

In my personal cherished novel, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the worlds of two immensely divergent people display the marxist idea of the importance of social status and its affect on the people. The two main characters seem to be on opposite ends of the earth in terms of an affluent Mr. Darcy being so privileged while on the contrary, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is of a lower class. Throughout the novel, there is a fine distinction between their clashing opinions and actions that are highly influenced by both their social classes as well as the society that surrounds them. As one can assume by basing the theme of the novel upon its title, the differences in Miss Bennet and Mr. Darcy’s social rankings causes great discord leading both to a test of conquering their pride and bigotry against their opinions of each other and their families.

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, has become a critically acclaimed novel that is most noted for including a variety of characters, each with differing personalities and roles throughout the story. One character in particular, Mrs. Bennet, plays an important role that is often overlooked. Her behavior and lack of propriety reflects negatively on her character and her overbearing nature can call into question the capability of her parenting skills. Mrs. Bennet lacks the qualities of an attentive and loving mother and therefore endangers the happiness of her two eldest daughters throughout the novel.

Elizabeth’s mother Mrs. Bennet was the humorous epitome of a stereotypical middle class woman of the late eighteen hundreds England. She was considered by those in higher statuses as lower class; her loud boisterous behavior lacked a certain ladylike refinement of the upper classes that Mrs. Bennet herself strived for her daughters to attain through marriage.

‘Pride and Prejudice’ is concerned with the equality of personhood between characters in the story. For instance, the marriage of Charlotte Lucas marriage to Mr. Collins which can be demonstrate the fact that marriage in the 19 century England, was ultimately seen as being an economic institution, dictated primarily by economic means. Miss Lucas, whom is a woman with small fortune, recognized her requirement for a wealthy husband to ensure that her social and cultural sustainment and thus, she marries Mr. Collins for whom she does not feel any loving emotion, “it is impossible that every moment should be employed in conversing together”. Within this, Austen presents a more cynical view of marriage, that of happiness not as marital prerequisite but rather as being an improbable benefit to people. Charlotte emphasizes the need of a husband for social security when she declares to Elizabeth; “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”. Such an institution of wanting of love and happiness, but burdened with social security and class recognition which is evident within Charlotte 's situation this can be shown when Charlottes says; “I am not romantic [I ask only for a comfortable home].”

Jane Austen wrote about the world in which women had no rights and no importance outside of marriage. Pride and Prejudice was written in 1813. Romanticism begins around 1789. Their priorities consists of emotionalism, self consciousness, respect for dignity of childhood, an interest in folk culture, and primitive origins for rural life.Pride and Prejudice is a window into the lives of young eighteenth century British women.

In 1813, for young women, marrying wealthy men held great importance in their lives. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a book set during this time period, revolves around the Bennet family as the daughters build relationships with their possible partners. The mother in the

As I started reading the book of Pride and the Prejudice, I have noticed that money is the desire that leaves no individual standing behind the person who is hypnotized by his or her wealth. First of all: External meaning, money in the wrong way could demolish the person or dignity and individuality. In general, if someone who just has become wealthy tends to believe that he or she is in power, thinking that they do not need any respect or sympathy towards the people who are not so wealthy. In the novel the social had a great impact among the characters. All of the English society in Jane Austen’s time and in her books everything was based upon the social classes. The Bennet’s are not so poor, yet they are not wealthy and they are about

Mrs. Bennet lacks any awareness of her social grace and embarrasses Elizabeth and Jane to no extent. Her incorrigible behaviors depicts a woman who lacks education and the ability to think before she acts. What Mr. Darcy says,