Pride and Prejudice: Marriage
Successful Marriage
I: Biography Looked upon as being one of the most influential and popular writers during the romantic period, Jane Austen published many romance novels, such as her most famous, Pride and Prejudice. Austen focused her writings on the importance of “romantic love as a true happiness to marriage” (Olsen 426). Having not experienced marriage, Jane often based her stories off of her family’s romance. Jane was born into a middle class family with very little income; Jane used her lack of money to inspire new novels. She mainly focused her novels over social standings and how love is characterized as true happiness. Her focus on love began when her siblings married for money rather than love. Austen strived to fix the many family issues by creating “fairy tale stories” ending “happily with the heroines marrying the men they loved” (Ruth 50). Jane Austen wrote her novels around the controversy of whether love should be based upon increasing one’s “social status” or “falling in love” (Bernard 34). Jane creates romance novels to replace the love that’s missing in her life. From growing up in a poor family Jane rarely received the opportunity to find love and marry a suitable husband, giving her thoughts and dreams of what her life would be like if she found marriage through love.
Austen’s novels portray that marriage shouldn’t be based upon personal wishes such as money or class, but for one to be happy one should find love. In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, the author shows that despite social pressure, for a marriage to be successful it must be based upon love.
II: Pride and Prejudice The novel Pride and Prejudice is surrounded with young couples and the issue of marriage through social class and public opinion. Many critics follow Jane Austen’s theme that love builds to create a happy successful marriage. The critic Bilal Hasan follows Austen’s theme and supports the theory that one shouldn’t marry for money if they plan on being happy.
I: Biography Looked upon as being one of the most influential and popular writers during the romantic period, Jane Austen published many romance novels, such as her most famous, Pride and Prejudice. Austen focused her writings on the importance of “romantic love as a true happiness to marriage” (Olsen 426). Having not experienced marriage, Jane often based her stories off of her family’s romance. Jane was born into a middle class family with very little income; Jane used her lack of money to inspire new novels. She mainly focused her novels over social standings and how love is characterized as true happiness. Her focus on love began when her siblings married for money rather than love. Austen strived to fix the many family issues by creating “fairy tale stories” ending “happily with the heroines marrying the men they loved” (Ruth 50). Jane Austen wrote her novels around the controversy of whether love should be based upon increasing one’s “social status” or “falling in love” (Bernard 34). Jane creates romance novels to replace the love that’s missing in her life. From growing up in a poor family Jane rarely received the opportunity to find love and marry a suitable husband, giving her thoughts and dreams of what her life would be like if she found marriage through love.
Austen’s novels portray that marriage shouldn’t be based upon personal wishes such as money or class, but for one to be happy one should find love. In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, the author shows that despite social pressure, for a marriage to be successful it must be based upon love.
II: Pride and Prejudice The novel Pride and Prejudice is surrounded with young couples and the issue of marriage through social class and public opinion. Many critics follow Jane Austen’s theme that love builds to create a happy successful marriage. The critic Bilal Hasan follows Austen’s theme and supports the theory that one shouldn’t marry for money if they plan on being happy.