As what I said before , Britain was then the most powerful country in the Europe , so there is no significant social contradiction . As a result , Jane Austen focused more attention on the life around , She describes the rural middleclass life which was not influenced by the industrial revolution yet . Jane Austen ,as a female writer , shows different attitude towards the marriage by depicting several young women of different economic position and horizon knowledge. Through the novel Pride and Prejudice ，she shows the marriage what she is looking for.
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Part of Austen’s Works
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Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma
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In her novels , she uses realism , biting social commentary and masterful use of indirect speech , funny and irony language which helps her earn the most widely and most beloved writers in English literature. And in the novel Pride and Prejudice, she takes the theme of love and marriage in a mildly humorous way of expression.
PART TWO
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Contents
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Brief Introduction To The Author
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Social Context Of The Novel
About The Author
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She was born in a midclass family and was brought up in a comfortable environment. She was the youngest one of the eight children . Although she didn’t receive her education at a regular school , she had a good family education , and she learned French and some Italian. Her primary text was her father’s literature collection.
Common the life is ,it also supplies her with material to create the classical novels . When she was still a young girl , she was skilled at various styles of writing, and when she finished the classical novel Pride and Prejudice , she was just twenty-two years old. And it was clear that she had found her appropriate form. Although in the novel Pride and Prejudice the hero and heroine finally has a happy ending , Jane Austen was unmarried all her life. Maybe she didn’t find her prince charming. What a pity!
At that time , the only way for the women with no Economic capacity to live a comfortable life is to waiting for a wealthy man to marry her . Although there is nothing to do with love.
Social Context Of The Novel
In late eighteenth century , Britain was experiencing great changes in history , Capitalist（资本主义） Agriculture、Anglo French war（英法战争）、industrial revolution which make Britain the most powerful capitalist empire . But under the social conditபைடு நூலகம்ons then , women’s social position is pretty low . There is no equality between men and women . At that time , many young women of the middle class has three choices: get married 、stay at home as an old maid or become a governess（家庭女教师） . Nobody wants to become a maid or governess which has low income as well as low social position. So ,getting married was their only way to get respect 、 wealthy and social position.