Discuss how Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

Pride and Prejudice Themes

      The Theme of Marriage

 The appearance of Charles Bingley a youthful man with a fortune at Nether field Park, sends the neighboring Bennet ménage into a flurry of excitement. Mrs. Bennet with five single daughters, has fond expedients of arranging a match between the eligible suitor Charles Bingley and any one of her daughters. After the customary introductory visits, there’s the occasion of the ball from which proceeds the Jane Bingley love story as well as the story of Elizabeth’s prejudice and Darcy’s pride which keeps them piecemeal originally until they come closer gradationally and ultimately marry at the end. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 By the time we’ve reached the end of the novel, not only the idol and heroine, Darcy and Elizabeth, but utmost of the youthful people have succeeded in pairing off in marriage. still, it’s from the courting of the idol and heroine that the story derives much of their pressure. Though, marriage is the end of her novel, yet it involves further than the conclusion of a simple love story. There’s a depth, variety and soberness in Jane Austen’s treatment of these motifs. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 Marriage – an Important Social and profitable concern

 Marriage was an important social concern in Jane Austen’s time and she was completely apprehensive of the disadvantages of remaining single. In a letter to Fanny Knight she wrote

 Jane Austen, tells us bluntly, that Charlotte ‘ without allowing largely of either men or of match ‘ had always had marriage as her object because it was the only honorable provision for well- educated, youthful women of small fortune, and while it may not have handed happiness, it would at least have defended them from want. The only option for unattached woman in Jane Austen’s time was to watch for someone differently’s children as Jane Austen herself did; as there were no outlets for women in assiduity, commerce, business or education. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

The novels of Jane Austen- especially Pride and Prejudice depict the profitable inequality of women, showing how women had to marry undesirable mates in order to gain some fiscal security.

 Correct Judgment in Love and Marriage

There are seven marriages in Pride and Prejudice, all of them really intended to reveal the conditions of a “ good ” and “ bad ” marriage. Three marriages that of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charlotte and Collins and Lydia and Wickham reveal the ‘ bad ’ marriage and the significance of good judgment and proper feeling in determining a couple’s future happiness. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 collective respect, the base of a sound marriage is lacking in the Bennet’s marriage. Prudence alone shouldn’t mandate, as it does in Charlotte’s case, nor should it be disregarded, which is what Lydia does. unmannered passion leads only to disgrace and misery for the families concerned. regard, good sense and collective affections are the right constituents for a successful marriage as the Darcy- Elizabeth marriage indicates. Jane Austen forcefully believed that to form a right judgement, one must have right principles and right perception of the nature of other people.

The capability to judge rightly is particularly important to her heroines, for it’s upon this capability that their choice of a suitable hubby depends. There-fore, Elizabeth Bennet who’s so certain of her judgment at all times is dazed by prejudice to judge Darcy incorrectly, nearly losing the man she comes to love. But once the true data are known she realizes her mistake. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

Correct judgment is thus important in Jane Austen’s world, for if the marriage of true minds is the ultimate good in her world, the coming together of the true minds depends upon their knowledge of themselves and each other.

 Bad Marriages

 Jane Austen’s view is the marriage grounded on economics, similar as that contracted by Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas. As a result of Charlotte’s need for fiscal security, she’s willing to destroy her own life by linking herself to a pretentious burro. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 The alternate kind of “ bad ” marriage is marriage grounded on similar superficial rates as coitus, appearance, good aesthetics and immature vivacity the raw marriage of Lydia and Wickham. The passion between the unconscionable rake Wickham and the flighty Lydia is bound to cool and in their unhappy wedded life collective toleration is the nearest approach to affection that can be anticipated.

Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 A less egregious illustration of this kind of marriage is that between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Indeed at this late stage Mrs. Bennet is analogous to Lydia in her flightiness and elevation. The Bennet marriage ends in collective forbearance.Mr. Bennet is in general retreat and insulation, and Mrs. Bennett is a disorganized woman.

 Love as a Social Act

 Indeed love is to be interpreted as lower an individual act than a social act. It occurs at the will of the society, according to its laws and it’ll affect all the members of the society. Society is a web of particular relations, utmost readily seen in the network of connections inside the family. Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 Love and marriage are first of all important to members of the immediate families, but their influence spreads out like ripples in a pond to touch distant members of the family, and eventually the society itself. The elopement of Wickham and Lydia, passionate and reckless, is an illustration of how others live may be ruined by the selfish acts of the existent.

Pride and Prejudice engages with the theme of love and marriage.

 Therefore, the theme of love and marriage is instanced in Pride and Prejudice. Beginning with the appearance of Bingley and Darcy both single men “ in possession of a good fortune ” the new traces the courting of Jane and Bingley and Elizabeth and Darcy through the colorful misconstructions and obstacles, both external and internal, before they’re happily married in the end. Along the way the novel also traces the unhappy marriages of Charlotte and Collins grounded on prudence and profitable necessity, and Lydia and Wickham grounded only on passion, and the marriage of the Bennet’s devoid of collective respect.