pride and prejudice
...nds in marriage, and rightfully so. On the social end, women during this time weren’t really accepted if they were old and unmarried, as well it seems as though none of the women in novel work and therefore don’t acquire money easily. The Bennet’ marriage is a perfect example of the reasons that Mrs. Bennet wants her five daughters to marry as quickly as possible. It seems as though Mr. and Mrs. Bennet really do not get along to well, but Mrs. Bennet stays with him because of the financial and social stability. Throughout the book it seems as though Mr. Bennet spends all his time in his study where he can have peace and quiet away from his five daughters and the constant banter of his wife. Mrs. Bennet on the other hand enjoys gossiping and pursuing her never-ending quest to find a husband in every man that walks or come near her estate. Elizabeth’s best friend Charlotte Lucas is a perfect example of marrying for financial stability, as she marries Mr. Collins for the obvious reason of his financial status. This is definitely made obvious when Charlotte makes it clear to Elizabeth that she marries Mr. Collins for, "the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment." Charlotte got exactly what she wanted. Charlotte seemed to be content with her chores of maintaining her house and pleasing Lady Catherine to maintain her status. She did not love Mr. Collins though and seemed a little bit distraught in that, this shows and obvious reason not to marry for financial status alone. Lydias marriage to Wickham was simply for lust and love. Lydia, being the flirtatious one of the group always had her eye on military officers. Lydia seemed to marry Wickham simply because he was the first to pay the most attention to her. This led to the sad out come of Lydia caring and loving Wickham quite a bit more then he cared for her. Wickham didn’t marry Lydia for love, he married her because he not only got a wife but he got enough money to pay off the terrible de...