A figura feminina e o casamento em Orgulho e preconceito, de Jane Austen

Abstract

The novel Pride and Prejudice (1813), by English writer Jane Austen, criticizes the bourgeois society of England of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, depicting the role of the submissive and resigned woman in a society in which her participation follows according to patriarchal social interests, restrictions and positions within a hierarchical community, divided into three social classes: the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and the working class, where marriage was a patriarchal institution of imprisonment and theft of the identity of women wrapped in the moorings of society. In this sense, this Course Conclusion Paper has as an objective to analyze the novel Pride and Prejudice, concerning to the feminine represented in that time and the marriages in the novel, by verifying the author’s critics towards this subject. The methodological procedures were based on a bibliographical research in books, scientific articles, theses, and dissertations, which have Pride and Prejudice as an object of research and analysis.