The problem of marriage : the study of marriages through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary

This thesis examines the problem of marriage in the early 19thcentury and the late 20thcentury through two magnificient novels: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones 's diary. I will prove that finding a suitable husband was easier in the time of Jane Austen than it is in Bridget Jones's period. Using both contemporary and earlier examinations of the topic, I will demonstrate that it is more difficult to establish efficient relationships nowadays, than it was in the time of Jane Austen's main character Elizabeth Bennet's. Thus, I am trying to investigate the origins of the fact that there are more single persons now than at the turn of the 19th century.