Money and marriage in pride and prejustice by Jane Austin

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Money and marriage are two important and closely-connected themes in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. According to Jane Austen, love is more important than money in marriage. When she was 26, she accepted a proposal by a man much younger and richer than her. But she declined the next day because she knew she did not love the man. She never received a proposal again and remained single all her life. But money is also an important issue. As indicated in the first line of the book: it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. So the proper time for men to settle is after they get enough money. Because middle-class women usually don' t go out to work and depend on their husbands financially, they are more concerned with money during courtship. There are four marriages in this book and we can see money matters in everyone of them.

The Darcy-Elizabeth marriage. It is generally accepted that Lizzy begins to love Darcy when she first visits Pemberley and feels it will be something to be the mistress of this huge estate. She is impressed by money as well as taste. After all, few men have a magnificent estate to impress their lovers. When Lydia and Wickham elope, Darcy saves the fame of the Bennets by buying Wickham into marrying Lydia. This helps his second proposal. Darcy can do this easily because that sum is no big deal compared to his 10,000 Pounds annual income. Two true lovers who complete one another make a good match; with a fortune they make a perfect one. That is probably why Austen lets Darcy to be the richest character in this book. The ending of the most famous love story in English literature is quite conventional: the prince and the princess live happily ever after in their castle....