Reading and speaking one, read the background information about the novel pride and prejudice, and then discuss the following questions. One, what was the social norm for marriage in england at that time? Two, would IT have been easy for women to seek marriage based on love. why? The story revolves around the Bennett family, a husband and wife with five daughters, the family's property and social status can only be passed onto a male air, meaning that the family are to become poor when the father dies. To guard against this, the daughters are urged to weed men of good status and wealth for the sake of the whole families well being. However, this is not easy for their daughters to accomplish, as in nineteen th century england, the cultural Normal to marry within one's own social rank. Jane, the eldest daughter, has already found a rich man whom he would like to marry, which pleases her mother greatly. However, Elizabeth, the second eldest, has recently declined an offer of marriage from a well of man, which deeply angers her mother. Then another rich amman, dari, proposes.