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A paper which considers the characters and plot of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with particular reference to the accuracy of her commentary on the social and economic position of women at the time. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in England at the time: however, her ironic commentary is not only directed at the patriarchal society of the era but also at the social behaviours of women themselves. She
draws a neat and precise distinction between those women who subscribe willingly to the dictates of social custom, and those who are capable of applying a more rational perspective to
their lives, although it is true that in some cases it is some time before the characters are able to achieve such a perspective on themselves, their interaction with society,
and their romantic relationships. As Woods (2003) points out, the opening lines of the novel
set the scene for the kind of narrative development which will follow - "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must
be in want of a wife" - a comment which, thanks to Austens concise and pointed ambiguities, could be read in two ways. Is she commenting that any well-to-do single
man must be actively looking for a wife to share his material success, or, more cynically, noting that any man who already has a wife will have already had his
fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he is considered as the rightful
property of some one or the other of their daughters". One begins to feel considerable
sympathy for the man in question, who is starting to take on the aspect of a fly who has walked into several spiders-webs simultaneously. It is clear that his entire
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