Pride And Prejudice: Irony
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife".(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English
comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty
headed Mrs. Bennet, and her desire to find a good match for each of her five
daughters from the middle-class young men of the family's acquaintance: "The
business of her life was to get her daughters married, its solace was visiting
and news."(pg. 3) In this, she rec ....
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