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Jane Austen´s Representation of Marriage in "Pride and Prejudice"
About this book
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject 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.
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