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Essay Archive - Pride and Prejudice: Thoughts of Marriage
Pride and Prejudice: Thoughts of Marriage
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen
provides subsequent argument with the first line of her novel, Pride and
Prejudice. A statement that remains true to this very day.
Austen's' first statement sets up the beginning of the novel. She
states that a man, financially well off, but with no mate to accompany him
to share in his wealth, is undoubtedly in search of a wife. In Pride and
Prejudice, Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy play the role of the rich men. Mr.
And M....
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