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

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject 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.