Oct 16, 2008
In the following essay, C. Cordero discusses the role of social status in Regency England and how Austen criticizes this concept of marriage, instead contending that a good marriage consists of two people who are of similar mind and talents.
The primary concern of Pride and Prejudice is to determine how a young girl of some intelligence and beauty but not much money can enter into a good marriage in Regency England—a time and place in which a good marriage was determined almost entirely by the...
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