23 Nisan 2012 Pazartesi

marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary.

In Pride and Prejudice, there can be seen many married couples as Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet,
Mr. Gardiner and Mrs. Gardiner, Charlotte and Mr. Colins. Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet loved each
other at the first time before they had married. After time has passed, Mr. Bennet realized that he
does not love Mrs. Bennet anymore. However, he makes some jokes to his wife. He has the idea
that she is his wife and the mother of his daughters. Thus, he just accepted her with her status as a
wife and a mother. The other marriage in the novel is between Charlotte and Mr. Collins which has
no romance as the marriage of Bennets. She married with Mr. Collins to have a secure house. She
does not love her husband. Thus, she arranged their house for not to see each other a lot. She has
her own room to stay. In addition to that, she always make her husband to get involved in to the
gardening. Thus, he can be in the garden rahter than the house for many times. The last marriage
in the novel is the ideal marriage that is between Gardiners. In the novel, they can be seen as going
to the trips together and they give importance to each other ideas.
In Madam Bovary, the marriage between Charles and Emma have both differences and similarities
with the marriages it Pride and Prejudice. Their marriage is as Benets in having no romance. They
do not make jokes to each other. Emma does not love her husband however Charles loves her. As
time by time, she started to hate from her husband. She always sees the bad and negative sides of
her marriage and her husband. In Pride and Prejudice, women do not do that also the men. They
just accept everything as what they are. The similarities of the marriages of Emma and Charlotte

are having a status as a wife of a man, having a house and having their own places apart from their
husbands. Charlotte has her own room and Emma read and do mant other things without her
husband. Emma's marriage and Gardeners' marriage has similarities as asking each other about
their ideas on the point of view of Charles.
In the marriages, women and a men have a role as wives and husbands. In both novels, there is
not any ideal marriage except the marrvage of Gardeners. However, in the novel the marriage of
Gardeners is not much mentioned. Mrs. Bennet has her role as a mother of daughters. She always
thinks about her daughters and marrige of them. It can be said that, some women has a role as a
mther in their marriages. However, Emma Bovary does not have a role like that. Besides, she never
behave as a mother to her daughter. In fact, Emma Bovary is not a kind of woman who has a role in
the marriage. She always wants to be free to have a romantic affairs. The other women characters
in Pride and Prejudice accepted the reality that marriage must be rational and there can not be too
much romance in the marriage. In addition to that, Emma has love affairs without marriages that
can show that she is not a type of a woman who wants to be get married. The difference between
emma and other married women is desire to have romantic relationship.
In the marriages in both novels, one couple is more dominant that the other one. In Bennet's
marriage, Mrs. Bennet is more dominant than her husband. She wants something and her husband
does that thing. The same situation can be seen in the marriage of Bovarys. Emma wants many
things that her husband can do and her husband does. Being dominant gives them self confidence
and power. Thus, Emma can overreach her husband. However, Mrs. Bennet cannot do these kind
of things and she does not have power and self confidence. This is because, she just think about
the marriages of her daughters. She is a mother more than a woman. The opposite of that can be
said for Emma Bovary.

To sum up, in every marriages in both novels there can be similarities and differences just in some
ways. However, they are not totally same or totally different from each other. Emma is totally
different from other female characters. In Pride and Prejudice, women have nearly the same
keynote about the marriage. The role of the women in the marriage can be shaped with the
mentality of the characters and the lifes of the characters that they lived. For instance, Emma's
mother has died when she was a little girl. She has grown up in school and with her father. Mostly,
she reads books. The other female characters have their mother and they do not read so many
books. Having a mother when they are growing up makes them to get marry and be a wife of their
husband. Emma does not have a mother as a guide, because of that she accepts the books as a
guide for herself. In addition to that, Emma is more fanciful in comparision to other female
characters. She has many dreams about love and life. The other female characters do not have so
wide dreams as Emma. Because of these characteristic differences their roles in the marriage and
their marriages can be differed.

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