Task 2: Jane Austen and women emancipation

1. What degrees of emancipation and/or conservative reinforcement of 18th-Century family values does Elizabeth Bennet's marriage to Mr. Darcy support?
2. What attitudes to marriage does 'Pride and Prejudice' convey? What other options did Elizabeth Bennet have?
3. How does the introduction made by Vivien Jones affect your reading and approach to the novel?
4. How could the social circumstances and contexts of 'Pride and Prejudice' apply to different cultures and contexts today?


 
1- She was different from the women of that time, quite a liberal woman against the status quo. It demostrate on her way of living and her thinking.
2- The status quo of women of that times was to get married young, otherwise they are rejected from society.This story doesn´t follow that status and ends with a happy ending and true love from the characters.
3- It make us get closser to the context of production and the understanding of the novel, which is very difficult to understand by the way. I think that without the introduction I would have to read the text at least three times to reach an acceptable understanding.
4- Like I said before, these adjectives are the bases of the English society of that times, but not only the English people, I think that all humans on the world are living day by day with the "pride and prejudice".