Pride and Prejudice -answering a social action reading question

I am currently still reading pride and prejudice. One of the social action reading questions I was thinking about was everything about justice. What exactly is justice and does it always have to be a knight in shining armor slaying the dragon—no. In this book Elizabeth is struggling with her life and who she loves, if she wants to get married or not. Since I’m still reading the book I don’t know what’s going to happen but I’m wondering is there really “justice to be served” in this book? I mean would Elizabeth doing what she wants in the end sort of be her justice? That’s what I’m thinking. I mean since the beginning her mother has been racing around and making judgments about men for her daughters to marry and if Elizabeth does something unexpected would that be like throwing it in her mother’s face to get her justice?

 All their mother does it try to get one of Elizabeth’s sisters to marry a man named Mr. Bingley and that’s literally all she seems to live for, I feel like if Elizabeth does something drastic it would kind of be like getting justice for all women in that time period. I mean as I was talking about in my last blog this is what all women seem worry and think about, is who they’re going to marry. In a way that’s all they do have to live for because if they didn’t then they would be looked down upon, but maybe if someone introduced them to a new way of life they might be able to feel like they had some freedom. What I’m trying to say is maybe all women would feel like they got some justice by realizing and knowing they had more of a place in life then to just marry and cook and clean. That would be like a bigger sort of justice and it might show their mother along with all men that women are just as important and that maybe they don’t even have to marry the first person who comes their way, or even anyone at all.

In a way since you’re mostly following Elizabeth’s story that you the reader would expect her to bring justice, but the outside world (inside the book) would not see her bringing justice. You would never really think that a girl from a family where all her sisters follow the rules of society and marry who their mother wants them to marry, would be the one to bring justice. I think the reason people wouldn’t expect it is because of the way society categorizes people and makes people seem one way just because of their race, or gender. For instance in this book you would never think of Elizabeth to bring justice really, but that’s only because of what she might come off to be in the book, to the other characters. This isn’t exactly fair but it’s just sort of how the world works, now I’m not saying she doesn’t have any of the traits that people think she has, because she is a very strong independent girl, but still people are so involved in their own personal gain they would never really think a girl like that would stand up and say what she wants to do in terms or marriage or anything else for that matter. 

Finally I think that in this book society, and Elizabeth's mother blocks justice. Since society has made up what a perfect girl should be like and do in that time period it's hard to go against it. I also think that since the mother has been dragged into what society has made her to believe is right-which is you have to marry to have a good life. In my mind I'm wondering who makes that decision and why? It's not fair shouldn't everyone get to decide things like that for themselves?