Marriage And Social Class

In the nineteenth century, people always cared about how the society viewed them. Either they were rich, or come from a rich family, if they had good manners, and if they were married. In the same century, people were characterized into three classes. The lower class, the middle class, and the upper class. The people that were more concentrated on were the upper class because they had so many expectations to the rest of the society. It was as if they lived their lives just to impress others and not for their own good. In the play, “The Marriage Proposal”, it demonstrates how they are eager to get married, ruling out that they do not get along. Wealthy men considered marrying a woman that comes from a rich family because the men wanted to

Being married to a person with good etiquette was also very important. The women in high class level were slightly educated as they were taught Arithmetic, reading and writing. With this, the upper class women were seen a bit more important than the other women. This is because, the wealthy women were able to read and write and by this, and they were able to help their husbands in certain occasions such as reading the newspaper or writing notes for them. As Natalia, in “The Marriage Proposal”, seemed to be confident in arguing with Lomov about property, it showed how intelligent she was even though it was very rare in those days to see a woman throw words back and forth with a

In the nineteenth century, people chose marriages based on money but not love. Therefore the consequences they met were expected. The married couple always had arguments since they did not how to connect for they don’t know each other well. Domestic violence happened a lot. For the women, since they were chosen by the husband, some of them, who were not so lucky, get to live with men who were so not good looking for the rest of their lives and bare their children. On the other hand, if they would have chosen love before money, like some of the low class and middle class, they would have ended up in love with their husbands with little arguments and no physical