"Pride and Prejudice" and "Our Mutual Friend": A Comparison of Societies Influence upon Marriage Compare and Contrast passages from Jane Austin and Charles Dickens novels

In two societies where social hierarchy rules over love in marriage, the tones of selfish progression in teh passage from Pride and Prejudice counter those of loving sercurity in the passage from Our Mutual Friend. The character of Mr. Collins uses marriage fro social gain, having it take precedence over the feelings of the woman to whom he wants to marry. The other man longs to probide for the woman he loves and wishes to …

…on the basis for marriage show this. Moreover, teh link between the societies of that era and the standards of todays are closely related. While we have more freedom to choose who to love and who to marry, society still pressures us to find the man who will love us as well as give us a boost in social standing. We are still a society that judges a person's worth according to one's social status