Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
Beginning of paper
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is not only a love
story of marriage among the rural
gentry in England at the start
of the 19th century
Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire. Her father was a vicar and she had six brothers and a sister. At the age of sixteen she started writing humorou ....
Middle of paper
.... also counts. If a woman never got married, because of lacking money or looks, she would go and live with a married sister or brother. If she did not have any brothers or sisters to live with, she would become a governess.
‘Pride and Prejudice’s’first sentence, ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,’ introduces the theme of marriage, and money, in an ironic way. Jane Austen starts off using intell ....
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Word count: 3405
Page count: 13 (approximately 250 words per page)
