Contemporary attitudes towards love and attraction compare and contrast to those revealed in Pride and Prejudice. In the novel it discusses traditional values of love as well as a need to get married. To get married was to have financial security and a secure social position. In today’s society marriage is based on mutual love towards one another.
Modern ideals of love contrast greatly to the ideals of love long ago. In the novel it shows how woman would only be with one man and that is the man they marry. In the present women have changed quite a bit and instead of only being with one man they are with many. Also men used to court their women. Now women aren’t courted like they used to be. In Jane Austen's time, courtship was a central and absolutely necessary action. Jane Austen stresses the significance of marriage and how it overwhelmed every thought in not only the woman’s mind but her parents’ as well. Family and marriage created a public and central position in the social and economic measures of English society. A person’s marriage determined their social class. Women inherited only through their husbands so they were practically born poor and stayed poor unless they chose a good husband. This is why marriage is stressed so highly in the novel. There are many times in today’s society where love is complicated. For example when boys and girls despise each other, but in actuality grow fond of each other. A lot of times girls ignore boys because they really like them. Secondly, first impressions usually don’t go well. For example, when Elizabeth first met Darcy she thought he was rude and conceited. After she got to know him better she realized that Darcy was actually nice and caring.
Marriage serves as the main element in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife,” highlights the importance of marriage within the world of the novel. It...