Introduction. There were two great novels about love and marriage coming into being in the 19th century ---- "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre", which were written by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. The two books give us two women's totally different concepts of love. 1.1 The main content and background of Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is actually a love comedy, which is filled with intelligence and humor. The first sentence of the first …
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…wives and children to live with little money. Jane Eyre and Rochester finally get married and live together, but their marriage was based on great suffering of each other (such as Rochester becomes disabled). Bronte's view on marriage is too idealized. In real life, too idealized marriage could hardly work very well. Comparing the realism in Pride and Prejudice and idealism in Jane Eyre, Austen's view is more acceptable and practical in the real life.