Normality Of Marriage In Pride And Prejudice

Marriage Comes in Different Definitions Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice criticizes the normality of marriage in which it’s purpose was to maintain social rank and financial stability. Austen portrays three different perspectives of marriage; that of convenience, infatuation, and love to show those who followed culture and went against the grain in order to find genuine love. She ties the unamiable Mr. Collins with the not-so-handsome Charlotte to show that they married for convenience rather than love. It was typical back then to marry each other for financial stability since providing oneself with food and shelter was more important than risking to marry a lover that could not likely provide for anything. Austen also shows a different type …show more content…
Families who do not have financial stability are more likely to desperately find a spouse that is rich. In which many families, such as Charlotte’s family, married for convenience of financial stability. It was also difficult to know more about someone that a person is interested in because they did not have telephones or lived near each other. Thus lead to young men and women attending balls such as Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet. Within a short amount of time, Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet, who were from the middle class, married each other. Social status plays a considerable part in the novel, Elizabeth has many conflicts of being able to marry Darcy because of their different social status. They were able to pass those criticisms and marry each other. Austen perceives that there are marriages of convenience, infatuation and love. These marriages are successful in that each character finds a certain happiness. Mr. Collins’s happiness is satisfying Lady Catherine de Bourg, Charlotte’s happiness is to be able to live well off, Mr. Bennet’s happiness is reading his books and being amused by Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet’s happiness is marrying off her daughters, and Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth’s happiness is marrying each