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A 5 page paper which examines the shallowness of life as presented in Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, 'Pride and Prejudice,' concentrating on marriage, which was little more than a game based on wealth and social position. No additional sources are cited.
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From the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen makes it clear that the characters she will be writing about are more concerned with finances than they are romance.
For it is not the heart which steers them toward marriage, but it is, rather, a jockeying for social position. Mrs. Bennet, the quintessential meddlesome mother, is not
particularly interested in securing marital happiness for her five daughters. Instead, she is more interested in upward social mobility, but often jeopardizes her daughters prospects with her inappropriate and
often scatterbrained comments. Mrs. Bennet believes that many doors of opportunity remained closed to her because she hadnt married a member of the aristocracy. But seeing to it
that her daughters married well would be the next best thing. As she confided to her husband, "If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at
Netherfield, and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for" (Austen 7). Elizabeth Bennet was a serious young girl who longed for happiness in marriage.
She equated love with happiness and didnt seem particularly impressed by social status. However, her best friend Charlotte Lucas was considerably less romantic and much more practical.
In Chapter VI of Pride and Prejudice, the two girls discuss Jane Bennets proposed marriage to Charles Bingley. To Charlotte, snagging a husband is more of a mating game
than it is a romantic involvement. She explains to Elizabeth, "If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the
opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost
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