Social Norm In Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” (Austen 3). With the popularity of the Enlightenment, female authors came out of the shadows and started displaying their work for all the world to see. Jane Austen, being one of them, took a stance on upper class society in 19th Century England, by mocking the standards of the elites. By using irony and humor to do so, Ms. Austen grabs the reader’s attention, by having characters that are relatable to readers in her time and to readers all over the world. An example of that is Pride and Prejudice by showing how different characters throughout the novel view the society’s norm, whether they think it is right or wrong. Some characters in the novel marry for financial status; some for love; & some just to be the first to get married. The sociological approach is how a literary work shows how society interacts in the novels time. It may go into political, economic, and cultural ways that define the people within the country. Jane Austen, growing up in an upper-class home, does personally understand how society works and that makes her the best person to write these kinds of
Pride and Prejudice can be an example for sociological approach by comparing how society is viewed in 19th Century England, which is reality, and with the book, & by showing different perspectives of society and