Love and Marriage Between Wickham and Lydia

Love and sexual union between Wickham and Lydia Pride and Prejudice is the close successful and popular novel written by Jane Austen. It revolves around the intricacies of courtship and marriage between members of social classes, which, in this case, is her own class the middle class. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen describes many different loves and marriages. Whereby, she can express her viewpoint that ones character often reflects his or her marriage and attitudes towards love.In this essay, I want to charge and analyse the sex-oriented marriage between a dissolute Wickham and an empty-minded Lydia. Wickham first appears as a real charming fellow. As an officer in the regiment stationed at Meryton, Wickham is quickly judged to be a perfectly good and amiable man because of his friendliness and the ease of his manners. Initially, his sexual fascination is so great that Elizabeth, who is normally very critical in judging people, sees at first absolutely nothing in him but m akes him seem the most charming man she has ever met.Wickhams constant attention to Elizabeth makes her feel sure that she is in love with him. He even makes Elizabeth to be inclined to believe his made-up story about Darcy. However, his aline nature, on the contrary, gradually shows itself to be mean and wicked. A curious degree of sexual attraction often goes with a lively, unreliable disposition, which may either be somewhat superficial but perfectly well-meaning, or driven by circumstance which it has not the strength to withstand, become that of a scoundrel. (Douglas Bush, 1956)Wickhams love was short-lived. after(prenominal) being realized the real person by Elizabeth, he is immediately reported to court another lady, Miss King, who possesses ten thousand pounds. A sharp contrast emerges between his agreeable appearance and mean character. He regards love as nothing but a tool to acquire wealth. His elopement with Lydia is very sudden. It truly leaves us some rooms to cont emplate his real motivation. Lydia is not rich. It seems that Wickhams elopement with her was beyond understanding.Nevertheless, further reading clarifies the obscurity and tells us his whole character. There ar two motivations behind it. Firstly, he is a dissolute man who never stops seeking sexual passion. Secondly, he availed himself of a chance to flee his creditors. His escape cock was rendered necessary by distress of circumstances rather than by his affection to Lydia. Lydia is the youngest of the Bennets sisters. She is gossip, immature, and self-involved. She is also the favorite of her mother because the two have such similar characters. Mrs.Bennets affection has brought her into public at an early age therefore, makes her become a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen. She has high animal spirits, and a sort of instinctive self-consequence, which the attentions of the officials, to whom her uncles good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, has increased into a ssurance. Lydia is an empty-minded and uncertain flirt who never ceases seeking her own fun and sexual excitement. The only interests in her life are to flirt with red-coated officials in a militia regiment in the neighborhood.Lydias minds are more vacant than their sisters, and when nothing part offered, a walk to Meryton is necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conservation for the evening. And Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Caption Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London. She is so temperamental that she cries bitterly when she hears that red-coated officials would leave the local town and rejoices when some impudently red-coated officials come in. As Lydia is young and empty-minded, she never gives love a serious and proper consideration.Her thirsts for carnal desire and unrestrained life determine her sex-oriented marriage, Wickham is tempting and pleasing outwardly, but mean and dirty inwardly. While Lydia, foolish and dissipated, only enchanted by his glorious appearance, sees nothing of his real intention and personality. Obviously, Lydia and Wickhams marriage is an example of bad marriage. Their marriage is based on appearances, sensuality, superficiality and youthful vivacity. Once they can no longer see these qualities in each other, their kind will then fade away.