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Pride and Prejudice and The Edible Woman: Negative Effects of the Society's Throughout history, society has played an important role in forming the value and attitudes of the population. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman are ....

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.... When Mr. Bingly moves to town, Mrs. Bennet immediately entreats her husband to go introduce himself. Mrs. Bennet describes Bingly as “a single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” (51). Bingly is immediately acceptable due to his money and connections, and Mrs. Bennet is already dreaming that one of her children will marry him. In fact, “the business of her life was to get her daughters married” (53). One of Elizabeth's close friends, Charlotte Lucas, feels “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” (69). She feels that marriage is a vehicle to gain wealth and c ....