January 31, 2012

Chapter 8 was extremely helpful on showing different aspects of power. It really showed how important money was and how without money you were completely out of the loop. Also, your families background was very important. Who you were related to and what your inheritance were showed a great deal of your power and class. Being in a certain social class gave you power and it was hard to change your class unless you were married in. For instance if a women of less money came to marry a man with a great fortune she would then take his social class. People from higher social classes did not think much of the people from lower social classes and did not usually converse or interact with other social classes and instead stayed with there own. From chapter 8 I learned that Jane Austen wrote about people who had money but she never did write about royalty. The people she wrote about lived comfortably and sometimes in the books there would be a few people with a lot of money.