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The Theme of Love and Marriage in Jane Austen’s Novels:
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

S. P. Guna Sundari, M.A., M.Phil.

Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Abstract

The Victorian Period begins with the traditions that have so many aspects in common. The period covered by the present chapter is that of the middle and later stages of the eighteenth century. Jane Austen’s, the daughter of Hampshire clergyman was born at Stevenson. She was an English novelist whose work of romantic fiction. Austen wrote as women about women. Her first novel was Pride and Prejudice. It is a set primarily in the country of Hertfordshire. The Bennet families are living a calm and quiet life in Longbourn. With the arrival of Mr. Bingley and his friend Mr. Darcy and later enter in the story a clergyman Mr. Collins and officer of Mr. Wickham. Mrs. Bennet finds herself surrounded by possible matches for her daughters. Mr. Bingley find himself attached to Jane while Darcy turns out to be the perfect husband for Elizabeth and Mr. Wickham, the villain of it, finally has to be settle for Lydia, the youngest of the girls. Elizabeth has an uncomplicated, funny and witty in nature; he is rather snobbish proud and reserved: Almost both of them meet and ends up the quarrel. She hates and teases him frankly. She realizes that Mr. Darcy, willing to forgive her. Finally got married and live happily ever after. The Second novel of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is about two sisters had different characters Marianne believed in Sensibility and eager in everything. On the other hand Elinor Professes had an excellent heart, mutual attachment has developed between Edward Ferras, the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood. Marianne happens to meet Willoughby, cousin, Mrs. Smith. Suddenly he leaves for London and Marianne takes the departure very sentimentally. At the time Lucy elopes with Robert. Thus hearing Edward free to Marry Elinor. Jane Austen’s plots through fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. She considers love and marriage to be fundamental problem of the human life

Key words: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, plot, characters

Novels in Victorian Times

Nearly all Victorians wrote copiously and had little regard for eighteenth century ideals of terseness and epigrammatic point. The novel replaced the poem as the most fashionable vehicle for the transmission of literature. This fundamental shift in popular taste has remained to the present day. Publications of serials in magazines and journals became more and more popular, and soon these pieces were being bound and sold in their complete forms. Until the Victorian period, the novel had been frowned upon as a lesser form of writing than the lyrics poetry. The novel appealed to a popular, often female readership, but critics dismissed it as artless and dull. However the later Victorian novelist and proved that the form could attain the heights of artistic achievement which was reserved only for the poetry. Thomas Hardy pushed the novel to its heights.

The Victorian novels were idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck won at the end. Virtue was rewarded and wrongdoers were suitably punished. It was a principle that those who struggle to attain morality would most probably achieve positive results in the end.

Jane Austen’s Novels

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen, the daughter of Hampshire clergy man was born at Staunton. She was an English novelist whose work of Romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place among the writers of English Literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. She lived her entire life as part of a close unit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and elder brothers as well as by her own reading. The eldest brother was critical of her development as professional writer. During this period she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned. From 1811 to 1816, she published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). She achieved success as a writer her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818.

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S. P. Guna Sundari, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor in English
Sri Ramasamy Naidu Memorial Arts and Science College
Sattur
Tamil Nadu
India
palaniguna7@gmail.com

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