english pride and prejudice theme marriage
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- Created on: 10-11-19 15:38
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- Pride and Prejudice, Themes, Marriage
- Definition - the legally or formally recognised union of two people as partners in a personal relationship
- Presented as a formal affair - "the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character"
- Presented as not based on love or true feelings - "he left the room, fatigues with the raptures of his wife"
- Presented as dictated by men (centred around men)- "It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- good fortune - obsession with money, wealth and status
- must - coercive pressuring by others
- possession - defined by having a wife
- universally - community mindset - hyperbolic wit
- Presented as a priority - first line of the text - must be important - "is he married or single" in the same line as an introduction people would want know if he's married
- Presented as a way of security - "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" - "i only ask" - "i ask only a comfortable home" - comfortable = happy the fact that E wants to fall in love is unconventional
- people had low expectations of love because they valued comfort more.
- Charlotte VS Elizabeth
- "opportunity"- practical thinking
- extract p20-21 - charlotte has more lines - suggests this is the majority perspective of marriage at the time
- "they (the married) always grow sufficiently unalike afterwards" - no need to find love because it is inevitable that it will be lost immediately
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