Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen talks about the rules that people believed that women should be like. People at that time believed that women must not have any property of their own. With this rule, women that wanted to divorce with the men was not even a few. It is because only their husband can make money, while they cannot. They were only allowed to stay at school. Once they divorce, they will be a beggar,without any money. So, this made women not able to do things that they wanted to do like men. Women didn’t have any power at that time. This makes the men be able to let women do whatever they want. Women must listen to men at that time. At that time, the wife was like a servant to her husband. The woman cannot have her own power.
Females didn’t have any value in the world at that time.Female didn’t work, so that's why they cannot make any value. Very rare for female work. Females couldn’t make enough money to let themselves live and survive. So, this reflects out the problem again. When a person cannot work, he or she cannot make money. When a person doesn’t have money for herself to survive, she cannot depend on herself for surviving. At this time, females had to find a RICH man to give them money to make themselves have a better life. Females were not accepted for working at that time. In the book, Charlotte has to marry the rich man because she is not able to depend on herself. So, women like her must try her best to make herself perfect, so that men would like to marry her. Without men, women cannot survive in the old times.
Male only cares about how perfect the woman is but not how much love he has with the woman. Male at that time only wanted the perfect woman to be their wife. They didn’t care about how much they loved one person, but how elegant and perfect the woman was. Women at that time had to learn piano, reading, and singing. They have to do these all day long. Those things that women had to learn was the significance of a perfect woman. But, a woman can nearly do those things everyday and keep being perfect and elegant. This shows that marriage at that time was not dependent on love from each other, but how perfect the woman is and how rich the man is. Marriage at the old time was agreed by the male.
Being perfect was the only way for women at the old times to have a way to live. The only way to let the women at that time have a better life is to make themself very polite, elegant, beautiful, good at singing, dancing, drawing… In the book, the five girls in the story all tried to make themselves as beautiful as they could. The five girls tried their best to make themselves into the girl that male all likes and thinks is the perfect one. In the book, Charlotte married to Mr. William Collins just to have more money. They weren’t really in love. They just have one person love the money and one side likes the perfect. But, nobody can be perfect. Charlotte had to try her best to be perfect because then there will or may be someone that wants to marry her. When she becomes perfect enough, more men will come to find her. Then, she will have money to survive from her husband. Women have to make themselves into the look that men like.
In Pride and Prejudice and also Little Women, people can know that those men and women in the old times believed that women were just like servants to their husbands. Every woman will mostly have a husband because without their husband, they would not be able to survive by themselves. No companies or stores would like to accept women workers. Nobody. In Pride and Prejudice, it shows that the five daughters from the Bennet family and Charlotte Lucas, married to a rich man just to let themselves survive in the world.
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