In Pride and Prejudice why would it ruin both Lydia and the Bennets reputation if Wickam didn't marry Lydia?
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the book is set in a time period where youthful women needed a chaperon when in the presence of men. The fact is that Lydia was ALONE near Wickam, so most people would assume they had been doing indecorous things. Lydia would be considered soiled. And it would reflect on the entire Bennet family. Back in that time pre-marital relations be a horrible thing, a huge sin, and it never reflected poorly on the man. The entire family would enjoy been black listed in society for any tastelessness.
Prejudice depicts a society in which a woman’s reputation is of the utmost importance. A woman is expected to behave in in no doubt ways. Stepping outside the social norms makes her vulnerable to ostracism. This matter appears in the novel, when Elizabeth walks to Netherfield and arrives near muddy skirts, to the shock of the reputation-conscious Miss Bingley and her friends. At other points, the ill-mannered, ridiculous behavior of Mrs. Bennet gives her a bad reputation with the more sophisticated (and snobbish) Darcys and Bingleys. Austen pokes gentle fun at the snobs in these examples, but later surrounded by the novel, when Lydia elopes with Wickham and lives with him out of married state, the author treats reputation as a very serious matter. By becoming Wickham’s lover without benefit of nuptials, Lydia clearly places herself outside the social pale, and her disgrace threatens the entire Bennet family. The fact that Lydia’s pronouncement, however terrible, would likely have condemned the other Bennet sisters to marriageless (sp.) lives seem grossly unfair. hy should Elizabeth’s reputation suffer along Wwith Lydia’s? Darcy’s intervention on the Bennets’ behalf thus becomes all the more unsparing, but some readers might resent that such an intervention was necessary at adjectives. If Darcy’s money had failed to convince Wickham to marry Lydia, would Darcy have still married Elizabeth? Does his transcendence of prejudice extend that far? The joyous ending of Pride and Prejudice is certainly emotionally satisfying, but contained by many ways it leaves the theme of reputation, and the importance placed on reputation, unexplored. One can ask of Pride and Prejudice, to what extent does it critique social structures, and to what extent does it simply adopt their inevitability?
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