Pride and Prejudice whose theme is marriage views the world from the perspective of young female characters representing
the genteel i.e. the upper middle class society of Great Britian of Jane Austen"s times.
Again it deals with various types of marriages good marriage (elizabeth and Darcy), bad marriage(Mr and Mrs Benneth or Lyda and Weckham), marriage of compromise(Mr Collins and lady Lucas), or the schemes of the bingely sister to win over Darcy is more like the traditional inversion of idea where a women tries to win over men contrary to the norm of a patriarchial set up.
The novel opens with the sentence ...."a single man with large fortune must be in want of a wife".........and precisely this idea pervades through the entire novel. Its like the atmosphere of marriage or love being translated into marriage provides the background of the novel...Its between these two major ideas the story and the charactres are portrayed .