P&P - gender roles

Marriage as a women’s primary goal - Mrs Bennet

“The business of her life was to get her daughters married.”

economic dependence of men - Mrs Bennet

“i do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your children.”

social expectations of ‘proper’ female behaviour - Miss Bingley

“a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing […] she must posses a certain something in her air.”

Austen’s feminist undercurrent - Elizabeth

“do not consider me now as an elegant female, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”