Pride and Prejudice Essay Outline

Pride and Prejudice Essay Outline

Intro: How wealth and social status serve as a distraction from a marriage of true love, and how the prevalence of male dominance and the suppression of women result in men getting what they want.

¶1 Class rank and wealth affects on marriage

- Mrs. Bennet’s driven goal to get all of her daughters to marry. (Elizabeth and Darcy). She does this for the good of her daughters and for economic stability in their family.

-Jane Austen uses Mrs. Bennet to show the importance of marriage for young women during the 19^th century

            - Distracts women from seeing the man for who he is but what he has

            - Modern day= Gold diggers

            - Examples of Elizabeth and Darcy

¶2 How social power and gender affects marriage

- How women were viewed in the 19^th century

- Their dependence on men, how women have fewer chances to get married due to the fact that they never give proposal rather than receive them (Societal opinion).

- Examples of Elizabeth and Collins

- How there is both male dominance; Elizabeth and Collins, and female dominance; Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, in 19^th century relationships…out comes of both marriages.