Part one of term paper
"Different ideas of the woman's role in society, especially marriage" ("", chapter 6) 1. Summary (and "Einordnung" in the context of the novel) Jane Austen's novel '' deals with the English upper-class society in the early 19th century. The main characters are the five daughters in the Bennet family, who have to marry into a wealthy family so ...

Part two of term paper
... for the daughters to get married. A few days later there is a ball in the neighbourhood during which Mr. Bingley greatly admires Jane, the eldest of the Bennet daughters. Mr. Bingley is a very friendly young man and so everybody likes him, but his friend Mr. Darcy is very proud and arrogant. He only dances and talks with people from his party and as Mr. Bingley asks him to dance with Elizabeth Bennet, who is almost as beautiful as her elder sister Jane, but he declines because he doesn't find her b ...