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

How Society Viewed Love and sexual union in Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Austen was born in 1775 and fatigued most of her life in thecountryside in a village called Steventon, Hampshire. She was the young woman of a clergyman, Reverend George Austen and her mother wascalled Cassandra Austen. She had a brief education get-go at the ageof seven and ending at eleven, when she settled at home. Like women inAustens partnership, she had little education due to the beliefs at thetime the only education she would get down received would likely havebeen to up her social status, through marriage. She wrote Pride andPrejudice to portray societys views of bang and marriage to thereader and to shoe that marriages unsay gravel for contrastive reasons. Wesee throughout the fiction the excessive number of marriages andcourtships that take place.The opening sentence Its a truth universally acknowledged, that asingle man in the possession of a good dowery must be in want of awife introduces the stem of love, marriage and money in an ironicway. The irony is contained in the position that marriage is meant to beabout love and happiness but understandably revolves around wealth and socialstanding. In the novel we see 2 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 non love or appearance, It was extremelycommon fro women in Austens era to bond and save themselves fromspinsterhood and social security and to gain, the above mentioned,financial... ...however, that Darcy is her ideal match.Intelligent and forthright, he too has a tendency to judge too hastilyand harshly, and his laid-back birth and wealth make him overly proud andoverly informed of his social status. When he proposes to her, forin stance, he dwells more on how unsuitable a match she is than on hercharms, beauty, or anything else complimentary, not handsome enough. here(predicate) Darcy is reflecting societys views of love and marriage becausemany people unify for higher social status and financial statusrather than for love and beauty.Pride and prejudice is a love story but does not reflect the romanticside. It gives the reader a sense of all the different kinds ofrelationships, none of them are the same. It shows that the idealcouple is difficult to find, the established marriages in the bookbeing The Bennets and the Gardiners.