Research the changes in the English social structure during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Show how attitudes in Pride and Prejudice toward the newly wealthy middle classes, who earned their money through trade and manufacturing, differed from those toward the landed gentry who inherited their generations-old wealth.
Much of Pride and Prejudice centers on the question of marriage or other unions examine the attitudes of the different characters in the novel towards the institution of marriage and compare them to modern attitudes......
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