Why We Should Have The Same Rights

We should have the same rights. In the book "Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen writes about unequal rights of the poor in 1812, and the unequal rights of women. Poor people rarely married rich because that wasn’t the custom back then. In addition to that, women weren’t treated as well as they should have been. Through the characters of Lydia Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, and Mrs. Bennet, Jane Austen shows the different rights and customs of the time period. In the story “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen uses the character Lydia Bennet to give a glimpse of how women were treated during this time period. Lydia is the youngest out of the Bennet girls and was boy crazy, she especially loved rich boys. Throughout the story Lydia and her sisters are looking for a rich man to marry. Also all the rich men are looking for a wife as told by this quote. ”It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (Pride and Prejudice, Volume I: Chapter 1). Lydia later on in the story runs off with Colonel Forster, that was one way women weren’t respected when men would just run off with women. Women in …show more content…
Elizabeth is proposed to by her distant cousin Mr. William Collins, throughout this time period, people would marry their family members and would have arranged marriages. Also Colonel Forster wants to run away with Elizabeth but ends up running away with Lydia. Elizabeth ends up marrying Mr. Darcy, however the two men before didn’t love her and just wanted to marry, Mr. Darcy loved her and fought for her. "In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal”(Pride and Prejudice, 345). This quote is showing that it doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor you still have the right to marry whomever you