On Jane Austen’s Views on marriage in Pride and Prejudice

摘要

Marriage and love are eternal topics in our society. Among these works,Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is welcomed all over the world. In this novel,Jane Austen expresses her own opinions about this problem through the description of four couples’marriage,that is: marriage should not be determined by property and family status. It is unwise to marry without money, but it is also wrong to marry for money. The marriage settled by love is happy and ideal. Her views on marriage have great realistic significance to the modern society.This paper sums up Jane Austen’s views on ideal marriage and its great realistic significance to the modern society from the analysis of four different types of marriage in the novel.