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iarchy. No matter what kind of family they were born in， rich or poor， they had to depend on marriage to change their way of life or maintain their own relatively good situation. Marriage is their only way to survive in the cruel world.

4. Conclusion 结论

In Pride and Prejudice， Austen fully expressed her view of marriage. From the novel， we can get a comprehensive understanding of women’s social status in pre-Victorian English country society of the 1810s. What Austen's novels exhibit is a world that is reduced consumedly; the views of them are narrow; anyway， they are quite concentrated. What she focused on was morality and customs; strict rules of behavior and criterion， hence， what her novels talk about are traditional marriages. She paid more attention to the expatiation that marriage means prescriptive connection of fortune， decision of cognation and rights of succession. At the time when women could not have the equal opportunity as men for getting work of the same value and having the same heirdom， they were the minority weak groups and the appendage of husbands in the family structure of male. Austen tried to search for rational marriages for women through rational love. Actually she emphasized that women should take the initiative in marriages， expressing view of value that was different from male writers.

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