Forever and Ever…? “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This sentence, the first of the novel Pride and Prejudice is the statement of one of the major themes in the book. Within this novel there are seven different marriages that exist, and Austen uses each one to represent different attitudes that people have towards marriage in the society …showed first 75 words of 1691 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1691 total…Bingley’s, rather they had to work for it. As Elizabeth says to her father, that her love for Mr. Darcy was, “not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months suspense.” (314) While Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have a lot of similarities, they also have many, many differences so they had to work much harder to achieve their relatioship, but once they achieved it, it was the greatest relationship possible.