Much Ado About Nothing And Pride And Prejudice Analysis

During the time of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, women were judged by the many different things that they did or didn’t do. One of the biggest things that came into play when determining the purity of a girl were her sexual relationships and if she was a promiscuous woman or not. In Much Ado about Nothing and Pride and Prejudice, we see that the promiscuity of male characters is treated differently and is seen as socially acceptable. Society has set and shaped standards causing women to have their own type of cultural rules to follow based off of their sexual impurity. When dealing with the same issue concerning men, it’s treated in a different way due to the fact that men had more power and received anything they would demand. When discussing monogamy, we see that it is okay for men to be promiscuous however for women, they live a life catered to men and are expected to be sexually loyal to the same man for their entire life. Both stories give examples of how this is portrayed and also how the act of gossip had negative impacts on a …show more content…
They are similar because the women in both stories are forced to live by standards that have been implemented by men. Sexuallity is something that can go wrong or right and can affect everyone in the story differently. With the combination of sexuality and gossip, we can see how messy and crazy it can get between characters within both stories. The nonstop gossip only amounts to more and more drama which then results in a consequence that nobody likes. Even though each character has their own freedom to live through, we can see that men have more freedoms and have less consequences for the actions they make. Along with the differences in freedom, there were cultural rules implemented by men that women had to live which can cause a nonstop flow of gossip and drama just as it did in both