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In present day, we believe in marriage as a tie between two people in love, and not an act aimed to gain wealth or social standing. However, in the novel, Pride and Prejudice, this was not the case. Many of the characters in the novel married for sake of convenience and advancing their status in society. Throughout the novel we begin to understand the types of marriages that occur, ranging from the pure love, Darcy …

…important conditions in which a marriages took place. They are composed of things such as love, money, convenience, and necessity. Marriage was a major characteristic, which determines who you are in society. That is a reason why many people of that time married, not out of love but for wealth and necessity. However in the case of the Bennet sisters, they were lucky enough to marry for love and also have the luxury of wealth.