-Women's roles
-The main purpose of a woman in her life revolves around marriage. There are different ways that marriage can be looked for. Some characters want to marry because of love like Elizabeth and Jane, others because of pleasure like Wickham and Lydia, but Mrs. Bennet wants to marry her daughters for money. It doesn't matter which kind o marriage happens, a married woman is considered so much better than the rest of the women. Lydia's pride after being married has increases a lot and the way she treats her sisters as inferiors demonstrate this. According to Lydia: "But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do" (pg246). Lydia's arrogance has made her think herself superior, having something to do compared to her sisters.
-Having a son in that time was inevitably the most important thing. All the property and possessions of a father would be inherited by the son. In the case there was no son then all his possessions would go to another family member, leaving the family poor. That case is the case of the Bennets. This situation is described when according to Austen: "When first Mr. Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless; for, of course, they were to have a son" (pg229). The economical situation of a family would be perfect if a son was in the family because all the money would go to him. The woman was not considered such a powerful figure to be able to inherit the father's possessions, even though they belonged to their family.
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