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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the society in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and considers the kind of social world, which appears to be cyclical and has little enduring opportunity for change. This paper considers the view of money, marriage and the lack of potential for change. No additional sources cited.
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No additional sources cited. MHPriPre.rtf The Society in Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice Written by 10/2001
Please Tony Tanner, in the Preface to Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, relates the fact that the overall impression of Austens
novel extends through the development of a social microcosm that maintains cyclical social norms. Tanner argues that Austens characters, plot and even the central conflicts are all designed to
link routines and social rituals to the maintaining of social normativity, minimizing the possibility for substantial change. Tanner then goes on to suggest that in this world free of
change, a small change, a change of mind, for example, or a change of behavior, can seem like a monumental change in light of the stability and normativity of the
social cosmos. Tanners viewpoint is well supported when assessing the central components of Austens text. As in a number of her novels, Austen creates a social context in
which certain behaviors are acceptable and others are not; where issues like money, or the lack of money, and social expectations, including marriage, are at the heart of family conflicts.
Further, the social context supports its own institutions in a cyclical manner and personal expectations are clearly based on the maintaining of order in this small world. The
world defined in Austens novel is initially defined by land ownership, wealth and marriage. There is an legal limitation that exists in the novel that is present some of
Austens other stories (including Sense and Sensibility) that causes conflict for the central characters. This legal limitation is that the lineage of land ownership goes from father to son
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