Pride And Prejudice During The Georgian Era

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of many works of literature that dealt with social issues during the Georgian Era. Pride and Prejudice is a classic that contains an intriguing love factor, yet also brings forth attention to sexist discrimination. During the Georgian Era, the oppression designed for women is normalized and Austen demonstrates its effects through the varying personalities of women from contrasting classes. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen focuses on sexism in her novel through satire, revealing the lack of independence and opportunities for women; she demonstrates societal expectations for women to be demure and contrasting it with her ideologies using the lower-class, independent Elizabeth and the wealthy Mr. Darcy. …show more content…

Women cannot own any property, or initiate any bonds or connections without being accompanied by a man. This must have filled many women with frustration and confusion; Mrs. Bennet expresses her own emotions when she exclaims, “‘I cannot bear to hear that mentioned. Pray do not talk of that odious man. I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it’” (Austen 52). It is important to mention that Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Bennet only conceived five daughters, and if they were to have a son, their property would not be in the hands of their relative, Mr. Collins. It is absurd for women to gain power, it harms the hierarchy that men built with their fragile masculinity. Therefore, Austen brings attention to this unfairness through the setting of her novel, purposely in a more closed-minded

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