British Marriage In the 18th Century -Book Report of Pride and Prejudice Author Jane Austen, the author of the novel £ ­Pride and Prejudice, was born in 1775, and lived the quiet country life of an English middle-class family of the time, hardly touched by outside events, even the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. It is this life that she describes in her half-dozen novels. Her world is a small one, but it ... is described with truth and ... , especially Mrs. Bennet. She was thinking about the young man marrying one of her daughters. In the ball held by Mr. Bingley, he and Jane fe...

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... chance. This holds true in the conception of marriage held in the novel. All of the marriages in the book formed under the bonds of money, rather than the bonds of love, end up unhappy or unsuccessful. The whole novel outlines attempts to dance around love for the combination of a wealth and attractiveness. It is thought that in, "the world of this novel, marriage is a market, and the young women are its merchandise ... feels that marriages formed by passion alone are just as bad as marriages formed without love. In conclusion, the essential statement made about marriage in Pride and Pr...

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... of marriage in Pride and Prejudice, and why she considers Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship to be the most desired model of marriage. There are many themes around marriage, through her presentation and symbolism, which Jane Austen portrays with this book; she lays out the different reasons and extremities for marriage between the different characters in the book. These reasons were the typical views of most families in the 1800's, families between the middle and upper class. Men ... their parent's house or a governess if lucky and clever enough. The first example of marriage in Pride a...

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Instead of the title Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's original title for this book was First Impressions. First impressions play a very vital part in this novel, because they served as the deciding factor most people would use to decide whether or not a person was worthy of marriage or even friendship. The ball in Meryton is important to the story's meaning because it shows the reader how many of the characters of ... the novel meet ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School