Pride and Predjudice - Money and Marriage :: English Literature

The overbold Pride and Predjudice is based on money and marri suppurate.Discuss.The novel reflects society at the time in which it was written, womenspowerlessness in a patriarichal society. Men dominated all walks oflife and expected women to attend their all need. In order to securea safe future for themselves women expended a lot of time and energylearning skills with which to attract a man of substance. IndeedDarcys view wasA woman must(prenominal) have a thourough cognition of music, singing, drawing,dancing and the modern languages an extremely tall order for any one.The study themes of money and marriage are indeed married to push backher inthe opening lines of this novelIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, inpossession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.During this period of time chaste themes such as love and respect didnot play a pivotal role in marriage. Charlotte Lucas remarks,if the dispositions of the parties are ever so sanitary kn own toeachother it does not advance their felicity in the least and it is collapse to know as little as possible about the defects of the mortalwith whom you are to pass your life. In this day a nd age a verystrange notion indeed.Charlotte Lucas did not believe that she be to be happy in amarriage. When she married Mr. Collins they were strangers andremained so. labor union in the early nineteenth century was an economic contract andin the case of the Bennet girls a means of financial security and kind acceptability. Therefore Mrs. Bennets life revolved around herdaughters security,The business of her life was to get her daughters marriedand,A single man of large fortune what a fine affaire for our girls.Mrs. Bennets own marriage was not a happy one. Mr Bennet rear retreatin his library. When he first married he was captivated by youth andbeauty and that appearance of good humour had married a woman whoseweak understanding and illiberal mind, had very early in theirmarriage put an end to real affection.. all his views of domestic gaiety were overthrown..A womans entire social,emotional and economic future depended entirelyon how sozzled her husband would be. So time spent in pursuit of awealthy mate was a matter of survival in the speed class. If youhappened to like or love that mate it was a highly serious bonus.Happiness in a marriage is entirely a matter of chance.It is good-for-naught that three of the marriages in the novel ended up as depressingunions. The Bennets marriage was based on physical attraction.