Matrimonial Issues and Marxist Approach in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The novel pride and prejudice by Jane Austen explores the subject of Marxist concepts through the themes of social status, class discrimination, wealth and the effect of Marxist experiences which is the most important topic of the 18th and early 19th century society. Marxism is a social science. This novel is directly or indirectly associated with thoughts of Karl Marx's Marxist theory. This theory states that class is differentiated by its ownership of materialistic things such as land and money. To explore the materialistic features of the society of that time, the focus of the research will be on the Marxist concepts presented in the novel through various characters. The Marxist features and matrimonial issues especially regarding women would be analyzed in the light of feminism and psychoanalysis of characters according to the attitudes of late 18th and early 19th century.