THE CONCEPT OF MARRIAGE IN JANE AUSTEN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND PERSUASION

Abstract

This thesis analyses the concept of marriage in Jane Austen’s novels Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. It also examines the writer’s view to marriage during her very short life and handles this change and process. While examining the view of Jane Austen to the marriage, 18th century, in which the writer lived, and her personal life have also been mentioned. According to the data transferred from the persons very close to Jane Austen, she reflected frames from her own life. When we consider the writer never got married and she was one of the greatest female novelists; we think that analyzing her view of marriage is worth to notice.