Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Literatur und Sprache), course: -, language: English, abstract: "e;It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."e; (Austen 1813/1994: 5)The famous opening sentence of the even more famous novel anticipates the majority of Pride and Prejudice s content. This Bachelor thesis examines Jane Austen s representation of marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813 in England during the Regency Period. Pride and Prejudice contains every sort of marriage a person like Jane Austen could imagine in those days: matched marriages, concerned of making a good match , the romantic love marriages including marrying under one s social rank, and the disastrous incident of lovers eloping.
