When Jane Austen began to write Pride and Prejudice, the original title of the book was First Impressions. According to BookRags, Ms. Austen’s father submitted her first draft to a London publisher but, the manuscript was rejected. So, Ms. Austen continued to work on her book for nearly sixteen according to Penguin Book. “Of her six complete novels, Pride and Prejudice seems to have been her favorite (Penguin Book p.3).” In Jane Austen’s books, she tended to focus on themes of social class, middle class manners, gender issues, courtship, and marriage. All of these themes came together in her book Pride and Prejudice. The three that Austen wrote a lot about was reputation, social class and love/marriage in Pride and Prejudice. Perhaps the reason
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During the time period that took place in Pride and Prejudice women’s reputation was one of the utmost important things. According to the society in Jane Austen’s novel, women were expected to behave a certain way but not following these expected behaviors broke the social norms making women vulnerable to shunning. When Elizabeth walked to Netherfield and arrived with muddy skirts in chapter 7 is an example of the theme of reputation because of Elizabeth doing this shocked Miss Bingley, who is very considered about reputation, and her friends. Another example is Mrs. Bennet gave herself a bad reputation with the Darcys and the Bingleys because Mrs. Bennet she came off as ill-mannered and had ridiculous behavior. When Lydia eloped with Wickham and lived with him out of wedlock put a bad reputation on Lydia because she was Wickham’s lover without being married and that was considered a huge thing back then. Lydia obviously placed herself on the outside of the social pale. She also disgraced and threaten the entire Bennet family because of her actions. The fact that because Lydia was Wickham’s lover without being married led her sisters to have marriageless lives which does not seem too fair but since Lydia ruined her family’s reputation, no one wanted to marry
During the time period that took place in Pride and Prejudice women’s reputation was one of the utmost important things. According to the society in Jane Austen’s novel, women were expected to behave a certain way but not following these expected behaviors broke the social norms making women vulnerable to shunning. When Elizabeth walked to Netherfield and arrived with muddy skirts in chapter 7 is an example of the theme of reputation because of Elizabeth doing this shocked Miss Bingley, who is very considered about reputation, and her friends. Another example is Mrs. Bennet gave herself a bad reputation with the Darcys and the Bingleys because Mrs. Bennet she came off as ill-mannered and had ridiculous behavior. When Lydia eloped with Wickham and lived with him out of wedlock put a bad reputation on Lydia because she was Wickham’s lover without being married and that was considered a huge thing back then. Lydia obviously placed herself on the outside of the social pale. She also disgraced and threaten the entire Bennet family because of her actions. The fact that because Lydia was Wickham’s lover without being married led her sisters to have marriageless lives which does not seem too fair but since Lydia ruined her family’s reputation, no one wanted to marry