"'It would not be a great match for Henrietta, but ...'" (Austen, 65).
Austen has clearly made marriage an import theme of here book. She has profiled every major character by their marital status, and the characters seem obsessed with finding husbands for themselves or for their offspring. It also seems that marriage is a very public business, and families can not keep mistakes hushed up. This is yet another way Austen is showing her theme of society.
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what other forms of 'marriage' do we see here -- in order for it to be a motif then we need to see a wide variety of 'marriages' two things united, two things working together, two things finding one another.. do you see what I mean? marriage might be a theme.. but a motif requires imagery in a variety of forms
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