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1 Introduction Today, people are more and more caring about women’s status. Women are not a separated individual, but deeply tie to the society, and they play very important roles in every aspects of the modern society. So women’s status not only connects to women themselves, but also the society’s development. Therefore, both women and the government should try their efforts to enhance women’s status and advance the equal right of men and women. As everyone knows, Pride and Prejudice，a well-known novel written by Jane Austen, marriage is central topic of the novel. According to the appearance of the novel, as for Austen’s characters, marriage does not mean the act of ungoverned passion but a complex engagement between the marrying couple and society. In the novel, Austen portrays the women’s low status and the reasons of women’s low status. But women in the novel didn’t try to strive for their right, they thought little of their low status, and had little self-awareness, just negotiated to the society. As for our Chinese women, they have been experiencing over 3000 years’ traditional ideology. And even in the modern society, they also suffer kinds of discriminations from the society and men. They are usually thought of humbler than men, and always be excluded out of the society. 2 A General Summary of the Women’s Status in Pride and Prejudice 2.1 A Brief Introduction to the Story Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s great masterpiece, a sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in early 19th century English society, a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status, respectability, property, and marriage. Marriage is one of the themes in the novel. Austen concentrates on women’s fate most. Through her characters’ process of courtship and marriage, Austen shows social backgrounds behind their marriage and what low status women have suffered. In Pride and Prejudice, for a woman, generally the