What is Elizabeth Bennets View on Marriage in the Pride and Prejudice Novel?
Her view is that marriage should be about love, equality and respect. Society tells her that she should be married and that she must think about rank and status. She refuses to give in to these rules. When Mr Collins proposes, she refuses as she knows she has no love for him and definitely does not respect him. She does this, even though that she would have solved all of the problems facing the Bennett women once their father dies. This brave act shows her strength of character and also shows just how much importance she places on the existence of love in a marriage. This is further shown when Mr Darcy proposes the first time. His status and wealth is far and above her own, and such a marriage would have benefited her and her family no end. But she believed him to be a proud and unpleasant man and did not love him and so refused him. It was not until she had learnt of all the good Mr Darcy had done for her and her family and how he had been wronged in the past, that she allowed herself
