What´s Important?

Pride or prejudice? Is it better the way you think about yourself or the way other see on you? Well Jane Austen gives us the two views. Pride and Prejudice, is a book that shows how people thought about this important question in the old england, when marriage was the only thing a girl needed.

Austen begins with a simple phrase that for me it expresses the thoughts about that age perfectly, "It is a truth universally acknowledge that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a good wife." (Austen, Pg 1). Almost everyone knows that a rich man must marry a sweet and beautiful girl of his own level at the english society.

Obviously at modern times this is something people like me, feminists, think is something totally negative towards the true meaning of women. We are not another object for men to collect, we are not meant to be part of a man's wealth. Why do I go towards feminist movements? because Austen is leading us there, the first 4 chapters makes us think about our true meaning on earth.

At those times it was accepted, at this times it's not. Why do we still see it? Incredibly, for the same stupid reason. Women doesn't want to be left out of the public scene, marry a rich guy and there you go. Why do women instead of looking for a better way than just run towards this options? Because Society has pulled us there, we only have that option. We are the same society from two centuries ago.

Society is a vicious cycle, it never stopped.

Gabriela Arroyo