Pride and Prejudice Introduction Paragraph

Introduction

In Jane Austen’s novel, pride and prejudice, main topics such as social power, gender roles and class ranking are presented to us in different ways to help portray the customs and affects they have on marriage in the 19^th century. Through out her novel, Jane uses satirical references and reiterates marriages to show in her time how it is normal for women to be suppressed in what they want in a marriage or how the parents have more of a say to decide who you marry. Because of the lack of power that women had during the era, some never got to experience a marriage truly based on love and married for the purpose to uphold their family class or just to be economically stable. Austen expresses these social norms in the 19^th century thru the main character Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s daughter, who goes though multiple marriages. The different marriages between Fitzwilliam Darcy and Mr. Collins show the reader the different reasons that she gets married but in this instance, for money, social power and the other because of male dominance.