Pride and Prejudice is a story that deals with ordinary life and involves people's choices. The most outstanding choice and a continually returning theme is marriage. The choice to marry varies upon the opinions of those who are judging. Throughout the book, there are five primarily presented views on marriage. Each opinion is presented by a unique character who has a different status, different life or society.
             Miss Elizabeth Bennet is on of the characters who could never believe herself to marry without being deeply in love. Miss Charlotte Lucas views marriage as a means of happiness and security. Other views of marriage are all about alliance, overall security for the family or for themselves, or obligation of position. Each opinion has it own views. Miss Elizabeth Bennet who is the second oldest of five daughters says that she absolutely will not marry unless being in the state of madly love. Following this principle Miss Elizabeth turns down Mr. Collins when he proposes and then she continues to seek others regardless of social position or fortune. Also, when Mr. Darcy asks Elizabeth to marry him she turns him down because she doesn't like his personality, character, or virtues. Miss Elizabeth is not a person who can be characterized of having little regard for consequences. Instead, she is willing to take her time to find a person whom she loves to marry.
             Jane Austen has involved many types and views of marriage in Pride and Prejudice. Seeing the book closely, it almost appears as if Austen groups people in society by how they married and what their characters are like. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to
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