Circumstance in Jane Austens early novels
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Table of Contents
- Importance of financial and social circumstance while marrying.
- The character of Mrs. Dashwood.
- Lucy Steele - epitomy of the common belief.
- Edward and Elinor's marriage and Miss Steele's and Willoughby's.
- Characters from Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
- dominance of circumstance and money in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Abstract
circumstance and money figure heavily in jane austen's first two novels-Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice-particularly in the way these social and financial considerations impact marriage. They can cause multiple problems, thwarting passionate romance, such as in the cases of Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars, Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, and jane Bennett and Mr. Bingley; the same considerations also create affectionless unions motivated entirely by circumstance, as seen in the instances of John Willoughby and Miss Grey, Robert Ferrars and Lucy Steele, Wickham and Lydia Bennett, and Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas. The accumulated effect of the marriages in these novels underscores a predominant theme in austen's writings: when entering into a state of matrimony, circumstance should be a secondary consideration to love, because without love there can be no marital happiness.
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