“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen This opening line of Pride and Prejudice could well describe the whole point of her book. With this single short statement, Jane Austen declares a couple of things essential to her novel. She declares one of her major themes: Money and Marriage. She establishes the fact that everyone is in …showed first 75 words of 1086 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1086 total…happiness. Happiness does not come from a marriage made because of money. Austen tries to convince the people around her of the purpose of marriage but to most of them it does not get through them. Marriage did not only involve two persons, it involved the whole family around them. In the novel, Elizabeth and most of her sisters end up getting married not so much because of money but because of love and happiness.