Double Standards In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice

There are some people in the world that believe there are double standards between men and women, because women can do the same thing as men but receive hatred for it. For example, a man can have intercourse with multiple women and obtain praise for it, but when a female is with multiple men she is called harsh words. There are a massive amount double standards that have to do with males and females. Men earn more money in a job while a woman is paid just a little less for doing the same job as a man. Multiple texts in English deal with the same double standards that are around today. Austen, Chaucer, Swift, and Shelley all have their opinions on how to deal with double standards. Many people argue that, “ males and females have distinctive

This author would support the fact that double standards should not exist. Readers can see this with the use of Elizabeth and how her character does not go with the rules of the 19th century society. Within the book, people can see that she is unlike any other girl in the novel. While everyone else is getting married and fawning over the rich men, she is looking for someone she could actually see herself content with, showing that money does not matter to Elizabeth. Elizabeth states, “Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all — and now despise me if you dare” (10.35). This quote shows the rebelliousness that Elizabeth has in her, saying that she does not care about what others think. This shows that Jane Austen would not care about the double standards in today’s society and would try to stop them. She would try to make a change and earn women the right to be treated

Everyone in the book assumed the monster was evil and wanted him gone, but in reality it was Victor Frankenstein that was the real monster. He was the one to create the monster in the first place, then abandoned him, which caused the monster to become evil. He was never taught about love or how he was suppose to act. The monster says to his creator, “You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man” ( Chapter 10, page 90). If Victor had never left his creation and actually stayed and took care of the monster and taught him the way he was suppose to act, then everyone who was killed and all the harm that was done could have been avoided. In Frankenstein the real monsters are actually the humans. The only reason that the monster was perceived as evil and dangerous was because of the way he looked, which is a double