The Reflection of Gender Issue through Nature in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

This paper aims to describe the gender issue in Regency Society reflected in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and to reveal how the environment and nature can reflect femininity and the relationship between men and women. The description of how nature will depict the gender perspective, social class, and the women’ right and how the characters develop their relationship is one of the objectives in this research. The researcher would like see how the nature relates the relationship of the men and women in the novel with the help of the natural surroundings of the Regency society. The nature portrayed within Pride and Prejudice can also be looked at from gender perspective in order to help understand how Austen used the nature in her work to reflect the realities of gender differences in her society. The method of analysis is descriptive-qualitative method. The source of the data based on the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The research data were collected and analyzed using data analysis technique. The study found that this classic work of Austen’ Pride and Prejudice is that the nature reflect the core differences between the sexes.