Jane Austen's moral concerns are ever present in the major themes of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and by incorporating them into her novels she is symbolizing real life - or what was real life for her then. Austen portrays the family as primarily responsible for the moral and intellectual education of children. Failure to do so properly has severe consequences. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's failure to provide this education for their daughters leads to …showed first 75 words of 1501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1501 total…question. If Darcy's money had failed to convince Wickham to marry Lydia, would Darcy have still married Elizabeth? Jane Austen's novels are a depiction of, what was for her, real life, and by criticizing and condemning characters and aspects of social life within the scope of her novel's plots, Jane Austen criticizes the world that she knows and the one in which she lives - trying to make society aware of the need for change.