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MARRIAGE AS A SOCIAL TRANSACTION IN JANE AUSTEN’S ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’ | ||
| Journal Of Al-Frahids Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 84-98 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ihsan Mudhar Mahmood Abid Al-Jobori | ||
| Abstract | ||
| As literature often brings out the image of real life, Austen's ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is no exception. It holds a mirror which reflects the life of the eighteenth century people. Studying the novel will draw a real image of the social lives of English people at that time. The English community which was affected by the political, economical and social conditions of the country can be seen in ‘Pride and Prejudice', though Austen in most of her novels did not deal with the political aspects, the social and economic conditions are explored in details. She gave minute details of how their lives are affected by social and political conflicts. We can find very interesting aspects of their lives through this novel. (Austen: 1990, 95). One interesting aspect depicted in the novel is how the mindset of the people is controlled by their society. Most of their actions are guided by their consciousness of their standings in society. Mothers hunt for their daughters' husbands and daughters too shamelessly hunt for theirs. Fathers too helped them in their shameless way of match making. This very trend that was there during the eighteenth century is what Austen satirizes in this novel. The high class society refuses to get mingled with the lower class people when it comes to marriage. In all standards, the upper class people look with scorn and disdain towards the lower class. However, in reality no one is an exception when it comes to choosing husbands for their daughters. Though they might be a bit better trained than those of the middle class, their extreme actions in hooking a right person is not at all different from that of those they consider as the lower class people. (Ibid:102). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| MARRIAGE AS A SOCIAL; TRANSACTION IN JANE AUSTEN | ||
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