How Society Viewed Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Aus

How conjunction Viewed Love and Marriage in Pride and harm by Jane AustenJane Austen was natural in 1775 and spent most of her life in thecountryside in a village called Steventon, Hampshire. She was thedaughter of a clergyman, Reverend George Austen and her mother wascalled Cassandra Austen. She had a outline breeding starting at the ageof seven and ending at eleven, when she settled at home. Like women inAustens society, she had little education due to the beliefs at thetime the only education she would have certain would likely havebeen to up her well-disposed status, through matrimony. She wrote Pride andPrejudice to portray societys views of love and marriage to thereader and to tog that marriages take place for different reasons. Wesee throughout the overbold the excessive number of marriages andcourtships that take place.The opening sentence Its a trueness universally acknowledged, that asingle man in the possession of a good fortune must be in want of awife introdu ces the theme of love, marriage and money in an ironicway. The mockery is contained in the fact that marriage is meant to beabout love and gaiety but clearly revolves around wealth and socialstanding. In the novel we see two established marriages take placeThe Bennets and the Gardiners. Throughout the novel four othermarriages take place Lydia and Mr Wickham, Charlotte Lucas and MrCollins, Elizabeth and Darcy and Jane and Mr Bingley.The marriage between Mr Collins and Charlotte Lucas is purely based onfinancial and social security not love or appearance, It was extremelycommon fro women in Austens era to marry and save themselves fromspinsterhood and social security and to gain, the above mentioned,financial... ...however, that Darcy is her rarified match.Intelligent and forthright, he as well has a tendency to judge too hastilyand harshly, and his high birth and wealth make him overly imperial andoverly conscious of his social status. When he proposes to her, forinstance, he d wells more on how unsuitable a match she is than on hercharms, beauty, or anything else complimentary, not attractive enough.Here Darcy is reflecting societys views of love and marriage because many a(prenominal) people married for higher social status and financial statusrather than for love and beauty.Pride and prejudice is a love horizontal surface but does not reflect the romanticside. It gives the reader a sense experience of all the different kinds ofrelationships, none of them are the same. It shows that the idealcouple is rugged to find, the established marriages in the bookbeing The Bennets and the Gardiners.