TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katrin Schmidt
PY  - 2007
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783638849852
TI  - The role of marriage in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'
DO  - 10.3239/9783638849852
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/76795
N2  - Since it was my part to introduce Jane Austen in a paper on 18th century women writers I wanted to know more about the female writers at her time. I chose Pride and Prejudice because it is one of Jane Austen's most famous novels. While I was reading it I soon discovered that marriage is the main theme of the novel. I want to compare the different kinds of marriages described in the novel putting emphasis on the marriage of the hero-ine and the hero. I want to show the importance of marriage in women's eyes in the 18th century. In a further step I will take a closer look at the ending of the novel which has often been described as a fairytale ending on the one hand and as confirmation of patriarchal structures on the other. I want to show that the ending can be interpreted in a different way. I shall reveal that marriage in Pride and Prejudice is not only the essence romantic novels are made of but rather important to the existence of women in the 18th century.
 
KW  - Jane, Austen, Pride, Prejudice, Rise, English, Novel, marriage
LA  - English
ER  -