Discuss the Theme of Marriage in the Novel, Pride and Prejudice. Made by-Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain . Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.Dept. of English 01911689503

1. Discuss the Theme of
Marriage in the Novel,
Pride and Prejudice.
Made by-Khandoker
Mufakkher Hossain .
Ex-Student, Jagannath University,Dhaka.
Dept. of English
01911689503

2. Pride and Prejudice
BY
Jane Austen
Khandoker Mufakkher Hossain

3. Discuss the Theme of Marriage in the
Novel, Pride and Prejudice.

5. "It is a truth universally acknowledged
that a single man in possesion of a large
fortune, must be in want of wife.."

6. Marriage is undoubtedly a great factor
in human life so far as happiness and
success in life are concerned.

7. In the novel, Pride and Prejudice it
happens to be one of the major themes.

8. Because of its importance in human life,
Jane Austen has given its due importance
and consideration in her novel and she tries
to analyze the cause of success and failure
in married life through a detailed discussion
of five marriages:

9. : four new ones and a fifth old one.

10. Marriage is not to be taken lightly and
everyone should take into account the
temperament and characteristics of his or
her spouse before entering into the final
contract.

11. Since love is the pillar on which marriage
rests, men should think very seriously
whether they would be able to love each
other, the authorizer herself rejected a
proposal of her marriage on this ground.

12. In Pride and Prejudice, the theme of
love and marriage, therefore, has been
treated with minute observation.

13. Although limited in the range of her
experience, she had a clear
understanding of the human heart.

14. In the beginning of the novel, the theme
of marriage has been truck just on
hearing the news of Mr. Bingley in their
neighborhood.

15. Mrs. Bennet argues her husband to pay
a visit to that house because she hopes
that one of her five daughters may
eventually be married to him.

16. So, the only business Mrs. Bennet has in
the world is to get her daughters
married off.

17. Getting daughters married is a problem
always and she is rightly anxious about
her daughter’s marriages.

18. But this old couple is not happy. There
is a just of difference between the
husband and the wife because of the
too-wide gap in their intellectual
attainments and understanding.

19. Love is not there, so Mr. Bennet is
painfully indifference to his wife and
criminally irresponsible to the family.

20. Being infatuated with his wife’s
uncommon physical beauty, he married
her.

21. Jane Austen has presented an unhappy
husband and a tolerant wife in the
couple. It is not physical beauty but the
mental quality that may bind husband
and wife permanently.

22. The wife could not provide what the
husband wanted from her, so the gap
between the two has widened to a point
where no abridgment is possible.

23. Mr. Bennet ridiculed her not alone but
in the presence of her daughters.

24. So, she becomes a nervous wreck. The
absence of understanding and of love
between them has affected the mental
growth of their children.

25. The couple that gets married next is
Charlotte and Mr. Collins.

26. But this marriage is also an unhappy
union.

27. Both of them hold different opinions on
marriage and accept each other not out
of love but out of necessity.

28. Mr. Collins sets an example of
matrimony by marrying Charlotte.

29. On the other hand, she accepts him
under economic pressure with full
awareness that she is going to marry an
ass.

30. She is not romantic at all, but a realist.

31. The next marriage that takes place in
the novel is between Wickham and
Lydia.

32. They elope before they get married.

33. Here is no exchange of heart, nor any
real understanding between the two
captivated.

34. But Wickham is reluctant to marry her
when pressed by Darcy.

35. This marriage is found to be unhappy,
as there is no bond of love between the
two.

36. The marriage between Jane Bingley is,
of course not based on any false
understanding.

37. They are in sincere love with each other
and have great emotional compatibility.

38. By nature, both of them are sweet and
gentle and free from ill-will or malice.

39. But their marriage is precariously
fragile.

40. Their temperamental harmony lacks the
strengthening support of intellectual
understanding and maturity.

41. They will be happy because they are too
good to forgive each other’s faults.

42. This marriage is found to be unhappy,
as there is no bond of love between the
two.

43. The most desirable marriage takes place
at last.

44. Darcy and Elizabeth enter into
marriage bond knowing each other for
a long time.

45. It is modeled on Shakespeare’s Much
Ado About Nothing.

46. In this comedy, Benedick and Beatrice,
who hate each other in the beginning,
are ultimately married at the end.

47. Similarly, Elizabeth and Darcy are
united in a hilarious spirit.

48. They have taken a long time to move
towards understanding.

49. Elizabeth helps Darcy to shake off his
prejudice while Darcy acts valiantly and
magnanimously to win her love.

50. They gradually develop mutual love and
affection which are in fact, the basis of a
sound marriage.

51. Jane Austen says,“It was a union that must have
been to the advantage of both; by her ease and
liveliness, his mind might have been softened;
his manners improved, and from his judgment,
information, and knowledge of the worlds, she
must have received the benefit of greater
importance.”

52. Jane Austen has spoken of a tone of
marriage and of its basis in the novel:
mutual love and respect, understanding
of hearts from the infrastructure of a
matrimonial alliance.

53. No marriage, unless inspired by
love can make the partners happy.

54. Jane Austen has expressed that
universal truth for the benefit of all
married and going to be the couples.

55. THE END