Marriage In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Year 2016, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 59 - 73, 01.12.2016

Amjad Azam Mohammed

Abstract

This work aims at investigating, in general, the situation of women in the
Victorian age and the more specifically the marriage in the Victorian age
and how the women were approaching marriage. There were many reasons
behind conducting marriage by women in the Victorian age, for example,
many women were conducting marriage because their social status was
not good or they had a poor family therefore they were relying on marriage
to secure their future, while there were many others trying to do marriage
just to get economically some interests or money.
In this study we have chosen the novel of Pride and Prejudice to explain
more clearly the conditions women were experiencing at the time, our first
novel is Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In Pride and prejudice Jane
shows multiple-marriages and the reasons stand behind each marriage.
Jane clearly comments about each of these marriages and reveals her
preferred marriage and she encourages women to conduct companion
marriage because he sees as the most successful marriage.

Keywords

The Victorian era , Marriage in Pride and Prejudice