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Love or Money
Summary: Essay describes Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice."
The18th century Society plays a very important role in an `ideal marriage'. In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, she illustrates that an `idea marriage' is hard to find. She demonstrates the conflicts between reason and emotion. Through marriages of several different characters, is able to show how people are able to interpret relationships quite differently. While one may marry just for attraction, another may marry for both attraction and financial status. Austen first begins with the marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet who both marry for necessity. While Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins marry for convenience. Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet household, and George Wickham marry for their desire, attractions and financial reasons. On the contrary Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley marry for love and attractions. Along with Lydia and Wickham, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy both marry for love, attraction and interests. Austen...
This section contains 1,246 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |