Gender Role in Pride & Prejudice

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Pride and Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Jane Austen’s 1813 novel of the same name. The film depicts story of five sisters from English family of landed gentry as they deal with issue of marriage, morality and misconceptions.  

In the film Pride and Prejudice there are countless example of societal roles place on women of 18th cent. During this time class and states carried lots of wait in society. Even in these classes men were superior to women in number of ways. One can see this in movie, where Bennet belongs to upper middle class family, but the only problem family faces is that they lack a son and so their property will be transferred to their male cosine Mr. Collins, who ensuring that the property stays in the family line, while disinheriting Elizabeth and her sisters. This is also one of the reasons why Mrs. Bennet is so desperate to get her daughters marry off to respectable men with good fortunes. The girl’s only purpose in life was to find a partner and marry which back then meant ‘coming out’ in society. Women during this were educated in a manner to prepare them for a role of ‘Angel in the House’. In movie Miss. Bingley lists skills require by a young accomplished lady: 

“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”  

Hence from the movie we come to know that women during Victorian Era were not given much  importance in the socio-political happenings of the society, also women during this time did not have any right on their family property. The term ‘Angel of House’ has also come in to existence during this time, it was the job of women to look after the house and be at home.  

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