Jane Austen´s Representation of Marriage in "Pride and Prejudice"

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Hildesheim (Institut für englische Literatur und Sprache), course: -, language: English, abstract: ¿It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.¿ (Austen 1813/1994: 5) The famous opening sentence of the even more famous novel anticipates the majority of Pride and Prejudice¿s content. This Bachelor thesis examines Jane Austen¿s representation of marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813 in England during the Regency Period. Pride and Prejudice contains every sort of marriage a person like Jane Austen could imagine in those days: matched marriages, concerned of ¿making a good match¿, the romantic love marriages including marrying under one¿s social rank, and the disastrous incident of lovers eloping.