Write an essay to compare the different attitudes to marriage of Charlotte Lucas and Elizabeth Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice.

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Write an essay to compare the different attitudes to marriage of Charlotte Lucas and Elizabeth Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and prejudice is a novel based on marriage and it is written by Jane Austen. Jane was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Pride and prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and Prejudice refers to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title First Impressions, and was probably in the form of an exchange of letters. Pride and Prejudice has always been Jane Austen's best-loved novel, not only, it seems, by its readers but also by Austen herself. "My own darling child",