Chapter 8 of The Cambridge Companion

Chapter 8 of The Cambridge Companion helped me to understand the ”power” aspect of  “sex, money and power” because it described more of the meaning behind the part of the theme. “Power” is so important because it shows how something like gender, money, social class and family status you may have more power than others. Generally speaking, the more money you had, the more powerful you were. “Power” goes along with your gender. During the time period of Jane Austen’s writing, men generally had more power than women. Social class also had a huge impact on “power”. The higher social class you were in, the more power you usually had. A woman of a lower social class or money background generally tried to marry someone higher. However, standards of many high class groups did not allow this. They usually did not want one of their children bringing someone “lower” than them, into their family. Overall, gender, money, social class and family status played a huge part in how much “power” you had.