Throughout the novel the theme of love is heavily linked with money but seems to be of less importance when discussing it along with money, this is shown within the opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice: " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". ... By mentioning both marriage and money within the opening paragraph the reader is given the impression of what the two main themes could possibly be and also the significance money may hold over love. ... Bennet is not concerned if her daughters marry for love...

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What we read is just the opposite; a single woman must be in want of a man with a good fortune. ... The comic tendencies displayed in the novel's language introduce a theme very important to the novel "the character's laughter and their attitudes towards laughter as an index to their morality and social philosophy. ... She tells her sister, she fell in love with Darcy after seeing his estate at Pemberly. ... But it is this assertion of her "liberty- that reveals Jane Austen taking a more conservative view of humor. ... When she returns to Longbourn with Wickham, she is "Lyd...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School

A perfect example Auerbach gives is the anticipation and waiting at the drawing-room, "before the gentlemen came.... From an optimistic view, even if Jane hadn't been so lucky, if all of the three females followed Elizabeth's example of learning, would they have all ended up happily in marriages of love and fortune (i.e. does Austen use Elizabeth's story as a formula for female readers to follow so they can find marriages of love and fortune?)? Or, from a more pessimistic view, did the marriages of these three females, Elizabeth, Jane, and Charlotte, turn out the way they d...

• Word Count: 1738
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate