Pride and Prejudice All Women Essay

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Collins provides for her, she'll be pleased. To put a finer point on her situation, one can argue that Charlotte won't be happy per se; she'll be content.

Our heroine, however, gets to have her cake and eat it too. Elizabeth winds up with Mr. Darcy who is both wealthy and the man she ends up falling in love with. This is a woman's narrative about weddings after all, and Austen elected to reward her readers with some Shakespearean symmetry: a lot of marriages, people are generally happy or content at the end of the book.

To make sense of how this unlikely couple ended up together, Austen includes a conversation between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth, where Elizabeth says, "You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone.
I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them." Yes, this is true. Mr. Darcy's fell in love with Elizabeth because she had a palpable otherness, an otherness that was rooted in defiance to conventional norms and a relatively fixed social order. Pride and Prejudice shows the reader that although a man has money and may be in search of a wife, it's often the woman that gets what she….....

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