Arguement: Charecter, love and marriage are all major components of Pide and Prejudice and Emma. This article explains the connection between love, character and a long lasting healthy marriage. The authors say that character absolutly effects love and how healthy a marriage is. Claim: This article proves the mordern thinking of Austen. Both main characters, Elizabeth and Emma say they will only marry for love and doubt that it will ever even happen. This is very forward thinking for a woman of that time. In that period of history women generally married in order to gain status, and baisically live, not on the basis of love or character. Its a very current idea that love is what marriage is based on and can only be sustained if both have good character. Evidence: "Character in a successful marriage or relationship does matter" (Schmitz) "Being honest and trustworthy is at the heart of all the best loving relationships we have studied" (Schmitz) "People who love each other have character when it comes to their marriage or relationship." (Schmitz)

Arguement: Jane Austen was a feminist and beleived it was up to the younger generation to set an example of how women should be treated.

Claim:Mary Margagret Benson argues that all the mothers were either absent or very silly in Austen novels. ALso talking about hoow the younger women were always off to make better lives for themselves than their mothers.

Evidence:"All the heroines have the makings of being better mothers than their own; with the self-knowledge they have achieved in the course of the novels, it is quite likely that they will succeed" " happy marriage and successful motherhood exist - but they are rare, and require intelligence and emotional maturity"

http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number11/benson.htm

Arguement: Jane Austens potrayal of women in her novels Pride and Prejudice and Emma to reflect events she was experiencing, not neccesarily the norm.

Claim: Austens stong relationship with her sister influenced her to write of the strengths that women have. The closeness they shared is reflected in the relationships of the sisters in Pride and Prejudice.The strenghs of the female characters were out of the norm for women of the time.

Evidence: "...sister-sister relations are just as important as marraige in the novels" "Austen is not commited to the values of her neighborhood, or qua values at all, that is she is disengaed to dominate political norms."


http://web.ebscohost.com.lib.chandleraz.gov/lrc/pdf?vid=10&hid=119&sid=7d1aa78d-78f0-4d91-bfb6-771c06fd96ec%40sessionmgr113