Novels have always been a dominant artwork due to British literature. For centuries people had entertained themselves by reading different kinds of novel. Pride and Prejudice is one of the first novel written in English language. Its author Jane Austen was considered to be the greatest novelist in the early 19th century. With her creatively style of writing and brilliant techniques of expressing the plots in the story, she was able to make Pride and Prejudice a great novel and still well known till now. In the story we are introduced with the ideas of how marriage are important to the women both financially and socially. The consciousness of social class is obviously presented by Jane Austen through the different characters and events in the novel. In fact, it is the theme of social class that provides the readers certain sense of knowledges about characters" personality and consequence of their actions. In the story we can see how social classes influences the way people act toward one another. Jane Austen often mocked about the silliness of human weakness and narrow-mindedness, which result from the values that exist in the different social classes. Austen's humor way of satirizing the social classes emerged from her experiences from two major social values; Age of Reason and Romanticism. Through her satire, she implied the view of how our moral virtue (class) is more important than the social class that we are belonging to.
Starting from the early chapters we can already sense the importance of the social class in the story. The news about the new upper class landowner Mr. Bingley arises the great interests from his neighbors because of his wealth and his single status. He soon becomes a "target" for women that are looking for a perfect husband. The reaction of Mrs. Bennet's urge desire to know Mr. Bingley and hope to wed her daughter to this mysterious gentleman, showed us how social status and wealth are often put before our actual personality "A single man of large fortune what a fine thing for out girls.