Jane Austen's novels present a classic example of social mobility. Seen in her novels is change of culture, exposure to a new culture, a new set of values, virtues or morality. The novelist uses satire to poke fun at the behavior of some class-conscious characters.Changes in the domestic life of the people also find a place in the novels, but the change was primarily in middle class families. The most potent agent of this change was marriage. Women being dependent on their father before marriage and on their husbands after it, marriage was the most important event in the life of women to make...