What’s more, at the time of Jane Austen, property was inherited by men, and women didn’t have the right of inheritance, worse still, women’s property is the limited dowry when they married. The reality of seeking survival makes the women to regard marriage as the only way to make a living and measures the quality of marriage by the quantity of money. Britain, a male-dominated society, where women were discriminated, and the relationship between men and women was not equal. In Pride and Prejudice, when Mrs. Bonnet gets the news that Bingley will become their new neighbor, she tells her husband blissfully and hopes he can pay a visit to Mr. Bingley forwardly. However, after refused by Mr. Bonnet, she can do nothing but complains that he never cares his daughters’ future. Another case is that Collins will inherit Bonnet family’s property after the death of Mr. Bonnet, while his five daughters can gain nothing, which is different from modern society. In the18th-century Britain, because of low status of women, they cannot visit their new neighbors alone, and they are not allow to go out frequently without important issues. They are required to stay at home, party is the only place where they can meet men and seek their husbands. Worse still, just like the story happens in Pride and Prejudice, women have not the right of inheritance, even if there is no son in their family. While in modern society, women have the equal rights as the men, they can visit their new neighbors casually without the permission of their husbands, and they can also inherit family’s property after their parents pass away. How low status women have and what a unequal society the Britain is in the 18th century. However, it maybe one of the powers that boost the novel such as Pride and Prejudice to be published.   

Ⅱ. Four Different Kinds of Views of Love

    In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen describes four different kinds of views of love, which are the purest love between Jane and Bingley, the most troublesome romance between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, the most realist marriage between Charlotte and Collins and the last one is the most undesirable, which is between Lydia and Wickham.
2.1 The Purest Love—Jane and Bingley
Among all marriages in this novel, the combination of pleasant Bingley and gentle Jane is the most pure one, which accordance with the famous saying “True love comes from the understanding and agreement of souls.”(Wang 9) Mr. Bingley is a brilliant person with a giant fortune about 5000 dollars a year. He often behaves so modest without any arrogant or looks down upon others. Therefore, when stepping the land of Netherfield, he is the prince of all young women. “On the night of the dance, all eyes were on Mr. Bingley as he entered the room.”(18) From this description, it is clearly that he is indeed agreeable both in appearance and character. Meanwhile, Jane, intelligent, charming, the eldest daughter of Mr. Bennett, all men are attracted by her good manners and beautiful appearance at the first ball, of course, Mr. Bingley is also included. Consequently, Mr. Bingley falls in love with Jane at first sight, and their romance flourish quietly and steadily. When Jane suffers a trifling cold, he is worried about her very much, and he does not think it is a good choice to send Jane to her own home before she is totally recovered. As time goes on, Mr. Bingley’s affection for Jane increases rapidly. However, both of them don’t speak out their love to each other. As an introverted girl, Jane is constant in her love but lacks strength and self-confidence. She doesn’t want others to know her love for Mr. Bingley, so she pretends that she has nothing to do with him, while Bingley does the same as Jane. Consequently, the love between Jane and Bingley is only a public secret.
However, from the novel, it is clearly that the love between them is very pure, without money and social status is involved. Mr. Bingley never looks down on her poor family and relatives who are without good manners; on the contrary, he treats them friendly and often invites her mother and young sisters to his home and enjoys a meal. In addition, as a girl of middle class, Jane receives a good education, without the feature of vanity. After Bingley’s departure, Jane suffers a great distress, she is very depressed, while she never says a bad word. She often says that“I prefer to believe that I was mistaken in thinking he cared for me, and that his sister loves him and approves of his wish to marry Miss Darcy, I don’t want to think badly of him or his sisters. That would be worse than anything.”（106）How pure a girl she is , everybody is perfect in her eyes. At the ending of the story, Jane and Bingley get married happily after a long period of separation and misunderstand and social status is also abandoned. I love you not because who you are, but because of who I am when I’m with you, which is their understanding of love. In modern society, the love stories like falling in love at first sight seldom happen in society, many of them are happen in campus, which is not means that society is not a place can find pure love, for there is so much tempt from money and satisfaction of mentality as well as mind of rivalry. Once stepping into society, more and more people become complex, their values begin change gradually. Consequently, their standards of love begin to involve the factors of economy without quite state of mind as a university student. So pure love is rare, please cherish it with heart. 《傲慢与偏见》中爱情观的分析与比较(3):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_9515.html