Jane Austen: The World of Feminism

Jane Austen is without a doubt a feminist writer; for she speaks highly about feminist issues by creating characters, incidents, and stories with internalized norms of femininity. These are prevalent in Pride and Prejudice, but there is the fact that author lived with inequality and injustice in her society. To do this, the author depicts her heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, as a adult female who is not afraid of her feelings and sentiments. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her female characters often as strong and independent during an era that defined women’s roles.
To be a perfect woman, you must be a perfect wife. The biased process and importance of marriage are introduced with the first line of the book. Austen writes:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering the neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters (Austen 1).
This implies that the man wants a wife and the woman is not in a place to turn him down. The man becomes her claim of love, and she fights over him with other women. It seems as if women are plentiful and men are rare. According to Chang, “This dependence is viewed as a necessary part of upper class England by most and was not