Essay on Pride and Prejudice: Tip # 8-The Darkness of Victorian Society In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen satirizes the superficially constructed society of the Victorian era by highlighting the flaws of the recurring themes of marriage versus love and gender roles through dramatic irony and character relationships. All relationships and the idea of ​​true love tend to be overshadowed by this materialistic society based on wealth, power, title and connections. Jane Austen constantly paints the Victorian scene of worldly women gathering to discuss the idea of ​​marriage while Charlotte Lucas points out that "there is so much gratitude or vanity in any form of attachment that it is not safe to leave any to themselves... very few of us who have enough heart to truly love without encouragement. Charlotte reveals that the image of marriage given by their society has flaws and impurities. The theme is even more emphasized with the dramatic irony that, even if Charlotte clearly sees the darkness of marriage in society, she herself does not want to disappoint her parents and marries Mr. Collins to be financially stable has become more a way of economic opportunity or embedded with ulterior motives of self-promotion, rather than an act of true love and companionship.Another relationship that expands the dark side of the common Victorian marital relationship is the growing separation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. When they were young, full of life and beauty they married both for their appearance and for luck. However, as they grew up, having to take care of their new worldly daughters, the beauty and fun phase of youth faded away and all that was left was money and no depth to their relationship. Their marriage was based on... middle of paper... Cy turns back humiliated and tempers his pride as a man in search not of a weak, narrow-minded, superficial woman, but rather a weak, narrow-minded, superficial woman. for a strong and independent individual. With Jane Austen's character development for Mr. Darcy in changing values ​​for ideal women, she puts dignified feminist women on a pedestal as a more attractive figure, in contrast to the stereotypical materialistic Victorian woman. Jane Austen satirizes and reveals the corrupt and distorted social values ​​in the Victorian era. Expanding on this idea, the two themes of marriage versus true love, and the role of women in society, Austen criticizes and ridicules the superficial life of the 1800s. A society full of superficial means must be careful to obscure social views, especially for the wealthy , not to base the meaning of life and ideals on frivolous and showy materialism..