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

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Hildesheim (Institut für 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.

Product details

• Authors: Svenja Strohmeier
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2013
• EAN: 9783656407294
• ISBN: 978-3-656-40729-4
• No. of pages: 28
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 4 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 57 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V212357; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V212357
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Education > Secondary school levels I and II