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Pride and Prejudice (Marriage (Mr and Mrs Bennet have been married a long…
Pride and Prejudice
Marriage
Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bingley, Mr and Mrs Bennet, Charlotte and Collins, Whickam and Lydia
Mr and Mrs Bennet have been married a long time, though Mr Bennet has had enough of Mrs Bennet
'You mistake me, my dear. I have high respects for your nerves. They are my old friends.'
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Elizabeth and Darcy didnt like each other at the beginning, but they grew to like each other
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'It is a truth universally acknowledge that a single man in procession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
Free indirect discourse, irony of overstatement
Men
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Collins
Pompous
'My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself)'
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Women
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Miss Bingley
Doesn't like the lower class Bennets, and wants to marry Darcy
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Prejudice
Elizabeth is prejudiced against Mr Darcy at the start of the novel, but she changes to love him after she reads his letter
Context
Austen lived in the regency period and people thought that a woman would marry for stability not love