This document provides an analysis of the social picture portrayed in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. It discusses how the novel is a detailed portrayal of late 18th/early 19th century English society, focusing on marriage, money, security, and pride. Marriage is shown to be something desired by all as it was a woman's way to gain property and security. The novel uses irony, especially around the marriage market, to create a comic tone around this serious subject. It examines women's low social status in Austen's patriarchal society and lack of inheritance rights.

1. Name : Latta Baraiya
Year : 2020-2022
Roll no. : 12
Sem : 1
Enrollment no. : 3069206420200003
Topic : social picture in Pride and prejudice
Paper : Literature of Romantics
Email id : lattabaraiya1204@gmail.com
Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of
English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. ◆Pride and prejudice◆
● Detail portrayal of the social atmosphere of the late
18th and early 19th century England
● Concerned with all social aspects of English gentry
● Sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in
Austen's time
● Realistic pictures of the social life of her time
● a world in which men held virtually all the power and
women were required to negotiate mine fields of
social status

3. ● Marriage was considered as the way of a women's
security
● also it paved the way for a woman to gain property
● Realist picture of today's life also
Money
Marriage
Security
Pride

4. ◆Trend of that time◆
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
【From book, chapter 1】
● Marriage is something wanted by all
● Rich man wants a wife, when actually
it is a woman that wants a rich husband

5. ● If one wishes to marry, one must be rich (also
belief of today's people)
● Marriage was thought as an acceptable path of
high status or their economic way according to the
view of the society in romantic time
"A single man of large fortune;
four or five thousand a year.''
- Mrs. Bennett

6. ◆ Vit Irony ◆
● Several kinds of irony and a wide variety of wit
● create a comic tone around the serious subject
of the marriage market
● There are three different types of irony:
1.dramatic irony,
2.situational irony, and
3.verbal irony.

7. ● Dramatic irony is achieved when the audience
or reader understands more about what is
happening as a result of the action than a
character understands at the time ( Elizabeth
herself is blind to the true character of Darcy
because of her prejudice against him)
● Irony when Elizabeth Bennet turns down the
wealthy Mr. Darcy's offer of marriage

8. ● The example of virbal irony is the first line of
the novel that “It is truth universal
acknowledge….
● The protagonist of this novel represents a
unique response to those expectations, which
is a product of her way of thinking
● All characters of the novel speak about a
female representation to certain social
standards concerning their life

9. Some fact of the novel

10. ◆ Social novel ◆
● The novel portrays the pride of upper class society (Darcy
firstly rejected Elizabeth cause of his pride)
● The ladies are the upper middle class play in the hash
ladies and gentlemen play cards or pass the time in held
gossip 【it is true in today's life also】
● Listening news, collected news and the communicating
news were the chief interest of the girls and ladies
● The women in Austen's age lived in a patriarchal society
,a world in which men held all the advantage

11. ● In the novel, Austen portrays the women's low
status and the reasons of women's low status
● But they in the novel didn't try to strive for their
right; they thought little of their status
● No right of inheritance, such is particularly the
case of the Bennets,a family of five daughters
whose father's estate is entailed to a distant
relative because women have not the right
possess his father's property
● After Mr. Bennett's death, they will loose home,
land, and income, and everything else

12. Citation
● Austen, Jane. “Pride and Prejudice.” Pride
and Prejudice , Produced by Anonymous
Volunteers, and David Widger, Public Domain
Books , 2008, www.gutenberg.org.
● Hasan, Rajibul Md. 2 Nov. 2010,
allrfree.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-
picture-in-pride-and-prejudice.html accessed
7 february 2021.

13. ● “Social Evolution in Pride and Prejudice: MSS
Research.”
www.mssresearch.org/?q=Social_Evolution_in_Pride
_Prejudice
● The Role of the Woman in the Family and Society in
the Novel
Florentino OlivieraR Thais
Florentino Oliviera, Thais R. The Role of the Woman
in the Family and Society in the Novel