It is a given that as time changes, the views and ideas people have had before shift to fit the mold of how society is. Today, marriage is seen as a joining together of two people in love who want to spend the rest of their lives together. During the time of Jane Austen, marriage was seen as a picture-perfect life, where two people are joined together, have children, and let their inheritance and reputation be known to the world. Because the main factor in marriage was money and social status, there was a huge rush for men and women to become married, leaving love, romance, and passion to be unknown or forgotten in a relationship. This rush is described in the first sentence in the novel, Pride and Prejudice, where Austen states, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
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In fact, it has come to the point where people do not need a marriage to define a couple’s commitment of love and affection for one another. Jane Austen depicted marriage as important only because of its economic benefits and social standing, but as time has changed these traditions have vanished to where society does not care about that anymore. The reader can see how the perception of marriage has slowly started to evolve in the last chapter of Pride and Prejudice when Elizabeth’s sister, “Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters,” and “she was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s examples, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid” (Austen 372). Before, Kitty’s role model was her younger sister Lydia who, as we can see, went down the wrong path. Now, Kitty is learning that marriage is not even that big of a deal, but affection for another person is what
In fact, it has come to the point where people do not need a marriage to define a couple’s commitment of love and affection for one another. Jane Austen depicted marriage as important only because of its economic benefits and social standing, but as time has changed these traditions have vanished to where society does not care about that anymore. The reader can see how the perception of marriage has slowly started to evolve in the last chapter of Pride and Prejudice when Elizabeth’s sister, “Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters,” and “she was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s examples, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid” (Austen 372). Before, Kitty’s role model was her younger sister Lydia who, as we can see, went down the wrong path. Now, Kitty is learning that marriage is not even that big of a deal, but affection for another person is what