Compare And Explore How Shakespear And 
Compare and explore how Shakespear and Austen present attitudes to love and marriage in ‘much ado about nothing’ and ‘pride and prejudice.’
Shakespeare and Austen use different ways of presenting attitudes towards love and marriage, Shakespeare uses a play and Austen uses a novel. Although they use different forms they both use very alike techniques and story lines, but in particular their characterisations and ways of contrasting are very corresponding and give a very similar effect on the reader. In spite of the fact that these two texts were written over 200 years apart, they both highlight and show important themes, for example; the expectations for men and women to marry for financial reasons instead of for love, were similar in both of these texts written in different times, Elizabethan and Georgian. In much ado about nothing and pride and prejudice they both follow the idea of conventional love and inconventional love through their characterisation, inconventional love through the characters of Beatrice and benedick and Elizabeth and Darcy who get married because of love and conventional love through the characters of Hero and Claudio and Jane and Bingley who get married for good fortune. ‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance’, a comment made by charlotte Lucas in pride and prejudice. I think this sums up the storyline in this novel, for charlotte this represents what marriage was like for women in the 19th century, England. I personally feel that this shows Jane Austen’s idea of fairy-tale marriage, many women who fall in love with men but who are also very rich, is usally just a fantasy, and one that many dreamed about but never really happened. You either marry for love or you marry for money, however happiness only ever rarely comes into the equation. Pride and prejudice is often described as a novel of ‘manners’, so basically it’s about how different people react with one and other and how people’s feelings can
Shakespeare and Austen use different ways of presenting attitudes towards love and marriage, Shakespeare uses a play and Austen uses a novel. Although they use different forms they both use very alike techniques and story lines, but in particular their characterisations and ways of contrasting are very corresponding and give a very similar effect on the reader. In spite of the fact that these two texts were written over 200 years apart, they both highlight and show important themes, for example; the expectations for men and women to marry for financial reasons instead of for love, were similar in both of these texts written in different times, Elizabethan and Georgian. In much ado about nothing and pride and prejudice they both follow the idea of conventional love and inconventional love through their characterisation, inconventional love through the characters of Beatrice and benedick and Elizabeth and Darcy who get married because of love and conventional love through the characters of Hero and Claudio and Jane and Bingley who get married for good fortune. ‘Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance’, a comment made by charlotte Lucas in pride and prejudice. I think this sums up the storyline in this novel, for charlotte this represents what marriage was like for women in the 19th century, England. I personally feel that this shows Jane Austen’s idea of fairy-tale marriage, many women who fall in love with men but who are also very rich, is usally just a fantasy, and one that many dreamed about but never really happened. You either marry for love or you marry for money, however happiness only ever rarely comes into the equation. Pride and prejudice is often described as a novel of ‘manners’, so basically it’s about how different people react with one and other and how people’s feelings can