... of social status and wealth. She adhered to the concept that people should marry for love and love only. Any other reasoning to get married wouldn't end well. The author uses literary devices such as foreshadowing, conflict, and irony to show the contrasts of different marriages in order ... , must be in want of a wife" (pg5). The first sentence of the novel focuses on the importance of getting married within the novels timeframe of the 1800's. The point of getting married for women was to bring up their social status and to climb up the financial status ladder. Finding a successful hus...

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... " between Edward and Robert. Elinor also receives a "compliment" from Sir John; he tells her Mrs Ferrars would have preferred if she would have married Edward over Lucy. Quote: "the least evil of the two and she would be glad to compound now for nothing worse." During their conversation Robert ... The story begins the very evening after the wedding of Mrs Weston. Mr Knightley comes to visit after returning from his brother (note: his brother is married to Isabel). Mr Woodhouse makes a few comments on the bad weather, but Mr Knightley dismisses them, telling him the weather is perfectly ...

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... happiness is a matter of luck where it doesn't matter if the two people know each other. Her attitude toward marriage does justify when she is actually married to Mr. Collins. What she says to Elizabeth is actually her foreshadow of the future. "It is better to know little as possible of the defects ... periodically. Darcy has no relationship with Catherine de Bourgh because of her insulting behavior toward Elizabeth. On the other hand, the movie simply demonstrates the two couple getting married together and going off in their carriages. The movie derives from the novel which and descr...

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... to earn money. Emma inherited her father's position as well as a personal fortune of thirty thousand pounds. Since Emma's older sister is married, Emma's duty in life is to look after her father. This duty causes problems when late in the book Emma and Mr. Knightly plan ... Bates or Westons and going to occasional tea or dinner parties. As a single woman she would not have been able to travel, (a married woman could travel with her husband). When her father died Emma would have no useful duty to perform for society. She would remain independent ... with good social position but practic...

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... As the development of Capitalism and the expand of the rank of rich people, the distinction between social stratum was becoming smaller and smaller, while money was getting more and more important in people's mind about social value. A western literature critic once said that "even David Ricardo (a British economist) had a unlikely ... and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. Though it is of course most in the interest of the daughter herself to get married, the interests of the own family can be important for the choice of husband and wife. It is not appropriate for the ...

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... Austen, 46). Her aggravation is one in which many women during that time were feeling. Jane Austen was different from many women because she never married. In her novel she satirizes the urgency of women to marry. In the nineteenth century, if women did not marry they were expected to ... poor households as well as very rich households. In 1830, Queen Victoria had to have her mother live with her in the palace, until she married Albert. No exceptions were made to any single class (Smith 58). Austen satirizes this concept when Charlotte Lucas is considered an old maid. Charlotte Lucas ......

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... most marriages were based upon wealth and status and that it was rare for marriages to go between classes. Frequently married couples in the higher classes were unhappy because they married through greed and practicality and did not base it upon love or attraction. This may have been partly responsible from the ... parents who usually declined marriages of love due to arguments over money or class mismatch. This also lead to the problem of the rich getting richer and the poor getting ... heir. This would explain the large family. Their marriage was likely based upon physical attraction...

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... his arrival, he proposes to Elizabeth and she declines. Shocking news comes when Mr. Collins is engaged to Charlotte Lucas, Charlotte explains that she getting older and needs the marriage for financial reasons. The marriage prospects for the young girls are starting to look bleak. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth but ... years old is governed by her feelings not by her reason, unlike Elinor. Marianne says about love " To love is to burn". In Pride and Prejudice getting married is a top priority for almost every character. " It is important to understand the vary real danger that faces the B...

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... why she needs to be changed. Another foolish woman that is also satired is Mrs. Bennet. She is infatuated with getting her daughters married. That is her only goal in life. She doesn't care about her daughters' happiness as long as they get married to someone who has a substantial about of money and property. This goal of hers almost cost one of her ... said, "You had better go on horseback, / because it seems likely to rain and you must stay all / night" (28 Austen). Her plan worked too well because instead of just getting a cold, Jane had a fever, and when Mrs. Bennet learned of this,...

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... money to support them. The marriages are arranged by how much money the female or male has. If either one are wealthy, then the two got married. If one is poor and the other one is rich, the marriage is frowned upon because both didn't have money. With both having money, then ... Otherwise, free mate selection wasn't practiced too often. If the two people truly were in love, and they didn't care what other people felt, then they got married. Jane Austen is in favor of free mate selection to a certain extent. For rich people, she had them marry for the money and a possibility of free ... ...

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... Newton, in her article, "Women, Power, and Subversion, comments, "Women for the most part, do not dwell on their power to choose, do not debate over getting a husband, and seldom give thought to the value of one husband over another" (129). Newton contrasts this with a male outlook on the matter, "Men in Pride and ... without. However, the reader cannot help but notice that Lydia is more excited to be the first of the Miss Bennet's to be married than to have married a quality man. After Lydia's elopement she brags to her eldest sister, "Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go l...

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... feelings and love, and soon finds her destiny in marriage. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love takes place in one sitting, and is about two married couples drinking gin together, and having a talk about the nature of love. Both stories bring a hazy view as to what love actually means for these people. ... of the people. The Gin only seemed to make it worse. Emma seemed to define love and marriage as a social status. During her time whomever a woman married would define her class in society. It is obvious that all the characters from both stories are a bit confused as to what real ...

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... to business arrangements than the union of two inseparable souls. Women and men were sought after according to their wealth and eligibility. Women's property became her husband's when she finally married. Of course all marriages, of all young women, had to be approved of by the family. The young women were introduced into society at an early age. The introduction was ... acceptable as long as they were discreet. The elder Bennet's marriage was a marriage of security. They Mrs. Collins married for the sake of getting married and settling down. Her desire to have a family of her own overr...

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... individualism by marrying Bingley. Jane and Bingley marrying each other is feminist because the marriage was not arranged and not for economic purposes, they get married for true love which before this time period was very uncommon. Elizabeth, the second born of the Bennet's, at one point exerts her independence ... time when she accepts Darcy's proposal we know she accepted it for love not money or status. She continues her independence even after she is married to Darcy, Dabundo describes this best when she said, "In Pride and Prejudice," Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy will share thi...

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... him. He quickly turns his attention to Elizabeth's friend, Charlotte Lucas, who wants to marry for security rather than love. The two are soon engaged and married. At the same time, Jane is dismayed to find out that Bingley and his friends have unexpectedly left for London. Miss Bingley writes to Jane that ... from debts, who spent money he did not have, and who lied to many people. He did not receive punishment for his actions. He ended up getting a large sum of money to marry and also was freed of all of his old debts. There is no real hero or heroine in this novel. ... irony add dep...

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... when he asks Elinor about the relationship between Marianne and Willoughby. He was always depressed to hear and to know that there was no way of getting his lover from Willoughby. However, that does not stop his passion for her. I admire his integrity and dignity. Despite his sadness and jealousy ... a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years ago, she had consider too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat!"(pg. 304) I feel most happy for Colonel Brandon because, "he was now as h...

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... how the high class also makes fun of the poor when they see that someone of a lower statue is looking for a husband. While the drive of Austen story is getting the Bennet girls married, Austen incidentally examines marriage itself, and its effect on five different couples. She comments, through Elizabeth, on the ironic fact that the Bennet's must be happy over a marriage ... does not get through them. Marriage did not only involve two persons, it involved the whole family around them. In the novel, Elizabeth and most of her sisters end up getting married not so much because of money but...

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After the affair with Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet is still stuck with five unmarried daughters. Jane is still getting aquatinted with Mr. Bingley, a rich suitor, Elizabeth still has no prospects, and two her three younger sisters are still chasing young officers. Suddenly when everything looks its brightest for Jane, ... comes that Lydia has run off with Wickham. Lydia's improper actions will surely ruin any of her sisters chances of becoming decently married. The entire family will be sure to be outcasts. Running off with a man you are not properly married to is not tolerated during an Age of ...

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... by a governess, Miss Taylor. Emma herself says about Miss Taylor that she 'fell little short of a mother in affection.' At the beginning of the novel, however, Miss Taylor has just married Mr. Weston. So Emma is being left alone after sixteen years of companionship of Miss Taylor. As much as she dislikes the fact that her governess ... married it was in fact she who brought the two lovers together. As of the day Miss Taylor and she met Mr Weston, she likes to think she already knew they ... . Females were confined to home life with no opportunity for a career. Even education for women ...

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... sons, but parents, aunts, uncles and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. Though it is of course most in the interest of the daughter herself to get married, the interests of the own family can be important for the choice of husband and wife. It is not appropriate for the daughter to choose whoever she likes for her ... . Young women were thought of incapable of living their own lives, it seems, so the daughter stayed within the family til the day she got married and moved to her husband's estate. A woman who never got married could therefore expect a life in her parents'...

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... instance, when Elizabeth walks to Netherfield and arrives with muddy skirts, to the shock of the reputation-conscious Miss Bingley and Mrs Hurst (Mr Bingley's married sister). Another re-occurring example is, the ridiculous behaviour of Mrs. Bennet, which gives her a bad reputation with the more refined Darcy and ... which also helps to win her heart. The happy ending of Pride & Prejudice is certainly satisfying, as both Elizabeth, Darcy and Jane, Bingley become married, but it leaves the theme of reputation, and the importance placed on reputation, unexplored. Class The theme of class ...

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... an example of caricature. She represents the ridiculous treatment of love and marriage in the Regency period. Her obsession with getting all of her five daughters married is illustrated in the quote, "The business of her life is to get her daughters married." She is a foolish and frivolous woman, with no concern for the moral or intellectual education of her daughters. Her sole ... aim is to see her daughters married and through her shallowness she is in unable to even perceive the shame in Lydia's behavior involving Mr Wickham and is absolutely delighted by the thought of her marrying....

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... Catherine has a private conversation with Elizabeth at the Bennet's home. Lady Catherine comes and asks if the rumors about she and Darcy getting married are true. Elizabeth denies this but Lady Catherine tries to make sure they never will get married by insulting her in every possible manner. She tells Elizabeth that she is from inferior birth, that it will ruin Darcy's reputation ... ...

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... her husband to meet this man and to get acquainted so she may introduce her daughters to him. This act is not uncommon for their day. To want your daughters married to accomplished men was something, though not as strong today, most parents wanted. So for Mr. Darcy to believe in the dignity of his lineage, and for Miss. Bingley to ... , and toys. In addition to these activities, there were private parties, receptions and balls, which are the festivities portrayed in Pride and Prejudice. The English had much more opportunity of getting to know each other before marriage, for young people ...

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... , education and wealth. Throughout her novel, Austen shows various traits that her society valued. In the early nineteenth century England was a place in which women who had no chance of getting married and winning economic security had to depend on charity or would have to work as a governess, therefore most young ladies spent all of their time and effort looking for a suitable ... . Heckling also incorporates drug use into her film, the protagonist Cher advocating drugs to the audience, " to light up a doobie and get laced at parties- We see the lead characters getting high on drugs, an...

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