Jane Austen's characters Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse and their social position

HRDÁ, Linda

This thesis aims to analyze the social status of the main characters in Jane Austen's novels, specifically Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The bachelor thesis is divided into four chapters. The first deals with the author Jane Austen, her life and work, and then focus on the authors who influenced Austen in her writing. The second chapter brings us closer to the time when the author lived in England in the 19th century. The era was called the Regency Era and we going to look at the role and differences in the lives of women and men and the economic situation, both in general in the 19th century and in Jane Austen's novels. Examples of how much the main male characters earned going to be given. The third part finally focuses on the main character of the novel, Emma. It describes the features that make Emma different from the other heroines in the rest of Austen's novels, while also discussing her position in the circle of society in which she existed. The second sub-chapter reveals the relationship with the closest characters with whom Emma came into contact. The last chapter of Elizabeth Bennet has a slightly different structure than the previous one, even though the work tries to cast the main characters in the same light. It defines the limits of the Bennet family, which is related to their income and therefore limits their social status in society. Elizabeth's womanhood is also included in the last chapter. At the end of the work, I compare our two heroines, specifically their personalities, views on marriage, character development, and social status.

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