Views On Female Marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre
¢ñ. Introduction
There were two great novels about love and marriage coming into being in the 19th century ---- Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, which were written by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. The two books give us two women¡¯s totally different concepts of love.
1.1 The main content and background of Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is actually a love comedy, which is filled with intelligence and humor. The first sentence of the first chapter has already made the comedic tone of the whole novel:
¡°IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.¡±
As a matter of fact, the whole novel is based on this ¡°universally acknowledged truth¡±. When the Bennets are worried about the marriage of their five daughters, ¡°single men in possession of a good fortune¡± ---- Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy have come, which......
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