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Pride and Prejudice

   

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1PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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Pride and Prejudice is an amusing portrayal of the social atmosphere of England in the
late eighteenth-century and the early nineteenth-century. Jane Austen in this novel have
taught the readers regarding the reputation and the love in the 19th and 21st centuries by means
of showing how Elizabeth shows up in a muddy dress (depicts unfashionable and low class)
and declines one of the marriage proposal and how the role and status of women have change
over time. Unlike the women today, the young women in the late eighteenth century did not
have the advantages of having varied options regarding their future to choose from. Although
the women were sent to the schools, their education was considered more about becoming
“accomplished” instead of increasing their academic career and knowledge. With the same,
they were also not allowed to have higher education. The options of having governesses,
private tutors and private schools were the final range of the structured education that were
available to them. Most of the women like Elizabeth Bennet who have inquisitive and lively
mind were able to expand their knowledge and have further education by means of reading.
In the novel, Elizabeth Bennet indicates much to Lady Catherine while depicting education
for herself and her sisters as unstructured yet accessible stating- “such of us as wished to
learn, never wanted the means. We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters
that were necessary. Those who chose to be idle certainly might1.
Furthermore, in the late eighteenth-century and the early nineteenth-century England,
the formal education of women was limited as their job opportunities were so. The then
society could not even imagine of a woman being entering into a profession like law or
medicine. This is why, the then society did not provide them the option to do so. The upper
and the middle class women have some avenues open to them for leading a secured future.
The unmarried girls used to be relied upon their relatives with whom they used to live and
1 J Austen & P Spacks, Pride and prejudice, in , Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
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