“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” [1] is the opening line of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . The opening line serves as a way to introduce to the reader the topic of the novel—marriage and the courting process. By beginning with this line, Austen has framed the environment that dictates the ‘means and ways’ of marriage in English society. However, what follows thereafter in the novel, provides an insight into the ‘state of marriage’ by having some couples who abide by the norm, and others who rebel against the convention. In the novel, four marriages occur, but for the purposes of this essay, only the marriages of Charlotte and Mr. Collins, Lydia and Wickham, and Elizabeth and Darcy will be addressed. In tackling the issue of marriage, Austen has crafted a picture where those who abide by the norm, end up in a state of marriage that is delusional. Whereas those who go against the su
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