A portrayal of marriage in Jane Austen’s “pride and prejudice”

Abstract

Pride and prejudice is a novel published in 1813 by Jane Austen, however it does not display ordinary Romantic traits. Rather, it is able to be said that its fashion and characteristics foreshadow the imminent Victorian era. As Victorian novels frequently do, it portrays and feedback on the social conventions of the period. It is usually regarded that the society of the 19th century England turned into not anything like nowadays: class variations were more seen; well mannered manners had been tons extra liked and, most significantly, the social fame of women become decided in line with the status of their circle of relatives or their husband. Consequently, they needed to marry the most suitable man that became occasionally even imposed on them by their circle of relatives. Even though they might select whom they could marry, there was little or no opportunity that they might marry a person they loved, unless he is also wealthy and inclined to marry her.