Jane Austen´s Representation of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature Works grade: 13 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.