ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Your plan is a good one, ” replied Elizabeth, “where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it. But these are not Jane’s feelings; she is not acting by design.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shortly after, Charlotte also gets in that famous line, “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance… It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life” (6.8).

Detailed explanation-3: -She marries, not for love, but for a home and security. Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband.

Detailed explanation-4: -Darcy’s initial proposal, it can be established that Elizabeth is portrayed as expressing liberal feminist ideas of marriage. She believes that affection, friendship and respect are major elements of a happy and strong marriage; she rejects the notion that one should marry for wealth or social status.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mr. Bennet perhaps sought to marry in order to break the entail with the birth of an heir. The narrator reveals this to the reader directly by stating that, when the couple first married “economy was held to be perfectly useless; for, of course, they were to have a son… to join in cutting off the entail” (Austen, 470).