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This research paper explores the complexities in the matrimonial relationships depicted in the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) of Jane Austin in the Victorian Age. The main focus of Jane Austin is to depict the Victoria mannerism and social realities in this novel with an aim to reflect her sociological perspective. Walter Scott was a historical novelist who became a continental novelist and so long as he remained alive he eclipsed Jane Austin as Walter Allen observes in his book The English Novel. Scott wrote about the struggles and romances of the Scottish people in a traditional dialect. But Jane Austen depicted the social and moral evils of the Victorian Age infected by hypocrisy, snobbery and pedantry. Her novel Pride and Prejudicedeals with the question of courtship, marriage and partnership and includes examples of problems and failures in matrimony. She took up the social issues and all her novels conveys amoral message. In her famous novel Austin took up the social theme of marriage mirroring the mindset of the Victorians in an easy and flowing lyrical prose. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen reflects the social realities of the English society.