Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin is timeless classic with merit to spare. This novel was one like no other. The ideas expressed and viewed in it were unheard of at the time the book took place. The year of 1813 was a troubling year. Not necessarily in the aspects of nationality, but the aspect of human nature. It was viewed that white males are superior to all others, even white females they were viewed as nothing more than an object of marriage and babies. They had virtually no rights, no opinions, and no say in a husband’s affairs of works, or house income. They were there to cook and clean and watch the kids, while the man went out and made something out of himself and brought in the family’s income. Although women had rights and financial independence met with many restrictions under French law and custom, most men and women agreed with Rousseau and other Enlightenment thinkers that women belonged in the private sphere of the home and therefore had no role to play in public affairs. They were just there for the home needs. …show more content…
This separated the wealthy from the peasants, royalty from commoners, rich from the poor. It was a high pressure for those of high class to stay in their class and pick a partner from that pool, it was very uncommon to marry outside your class. If you happened to be a person of a poor family and someone from a wealthy family picked you, then there was pressure from your family to marry that person, even if you had no feelings for them one bit. It was viewed as a betterment of standard in your society, Therefore most "genteel" women could not get money except by marrying for it or inheriting