In my opinion, with the contrasts between the characters, Jane Austen openly criticizes the attitude of the era to the women and marriage. From the first line of Pride and Prejudice, the storyteller uncovers her sarcastic way to deal with marriage. If it was “a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” then the women in the novel would not have to struggle so much (Austen, Pride and Prejudice 1). The irony of this initial sentence presents the novel stunningly. Her varied portrayals uncover which perspectives of marriage she finds most frightful and which are basically unavoidable facts. Austen denounces occupational marriage and the breaking points on women in her term. It is nothing unexpected that this book, full of insight and wit, remains a
In my opinion, with the contrasts between the characters, Jane Austen openly criticizes the attitude of the era to the women and marriage. From the first line of Pride and Prejudice, the storyteller uncovers her sarcastic way to deal with marriage. If it was “a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” then the women in the novel would not have to struggle so much (Austen, Pride and Prejudice 1). The irony of this initial sentence presents the novel stunningly. Her varied portrayals uncover which perspectives of marriage she finds most frightful and which are basically unavoidable facts. Austen denounces occupational marriage and the breaking points on women in her term. It is nothing unexpected that this book, full of insight and wit, remains a