Discuss the themes of love, money and
marriage in Pride and Prejudice.
Love and marriage are the chief themes in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This is nothing
novel as the themes had been a matter of concern to many playwrights and
novelists ever before. Of them, Shakespeare is there, handling the theme of
love and marriage in their multifarious dimensions. What is important is that
Jane Austen, unlike Shakespeare, handles themes as ground reality, in the
context of social environs in the late 18th century. Shakespeare
also does not evade the question of money in a marriage, and the best example is
The Merchant of Venice which is
markedly different from The Midsummer
Night’s Dream. The criticism that Austen moves within a two-inch box of
ivory is invalid as the box may be two-inch in size, but it is not made of
ivory. Austen’s world is the world she lived in and knew, and she made no
attempt to flint her imagination beyond the boundary line. The middle class
society in its necessary intercourse with the aristocracy and the tension that
necessarily springs out in a classified society constitute the workshop of
Austen. Naturally, the themes of love and marriage as handled by her have their
own sociological, psychological and artistic implications. Hence, marriage
which is a social institution is not handled by Austen as the ultimate result
of love however it generates. Matrimony in Pride and Prejudice always involves the role of money.........................................................
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