Female Consciousness in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Abstract

This thesis attempts to illustrate Jane Austen’s successful depiction of meaningful life in the society,is because of women consciousness in Pride and Prejudice.Consciousness means the condition of being aware and able to understand what is happening around to someone. Female consciousness is awareness of females. Females are aware and able to understand in the related issues for their self rights, freedom as well as equality to males. They are aware for their self-identity and self- recognition. Feminism makes female more conscious in their social, economical, political, life, future and so on.The theoretical application of feminism has been used to study. By creating the conscious or enlightened female in this novel, Austen gives the messages to the society that women by nature are not inferior beings, but the existing male-oriented culture, value and political system make them so. Given the females equal opportunities, they can work as males can do. Austen creates aware females; Mrs. Bennet, her daughters, and others, who gradually aware for their self- identity and self-recognition. Mrs. Bennet being a female is tremendously aware for her daughter’s good fortune by marrying to a suitable son-in-law, though her husband seems indifference towards her concern. So, she is destroying the happiness of her husband and at last she is able to settled comfortably getting all her daughters married in wealthy houses as her wish.