Jane Austen´s Representation of Marriage in "Pride and Prejudice"

By Svenja Strohmeier

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Hildesheim (Institut f r englische Literatur und Sprache), course: -, language: English, abstract: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." (Austen 1813/1994: 5) The famous opening sentence of the even more famous novel anticipates the majority of Pride and Prejudice s content. This Bachelor thesis examines Jane Austen s representation of marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813 in England during the Regency Period. Pride and Prejudice contains every sort of marriage a person like Jane Austen could imagine in those days: matched marriages, concerned of "making a good match", the romantic love marriages including marrying under one s social rank, and the disastrous incident of lovers eloping.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3656407290
• ISBN13: 9783656407294
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"