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This 10 page paper chronicles how the changing women's roles in society is demonstrated in Jane Austen's 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice.
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in these classic opening lines from her 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice? The women of the nineteenth century were hardly what one would describe as liberated. They were
regarded as only being of value to society in terms of child-bearing and their world consisted of home and family. I. Introduction The aristocratic woman was no
exception. She had no identity separate from that of her husbands. Therefore, it was imperative that if a woman wanted to make a contribution to society, however limited,
she needed to put much time and effort into marrying well. Womens futures were almost exclusively dependent upon mens because in Western patriarchal societies, education for women was considered
to be a waste. After all, do symbols of femininity really need to enhance their stature through the reading of books? In Britain, even if women had been
able to work outside the home and earn their own money, they would have to turn their income over to their husbands. This continued until the 1880 passage of
"The Married Womans Property Act." Nevertheless, at least in Jane Austens view, women were not only expected to compete in a mans world, they were expected to excel. In
Pride and Prejudice, she wrote, "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she
must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved" (37-38).
In response, Darcy acknowledges, "`All this she must possess, added Darcy, ``and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by
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