Intro for essay

Conformity is everywhere. From school settings to at home, we can't escape the pressure society puts on us. In fear of being an outcast, we're forced to conform to what society wants us to be. This is definitely true when it comes to love and marriage. Love used to be the main reason people get married. But now, wealth, connivance, and pressure are factors that convince two people into getting married despite being in love or not. In Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy coming from two different classes had to suppress their love for each other in order to maintain social normality. The more we conform, the more we lose our identities and our rights to love whomever we want. Even if we don't want to get married and start a family, society forces us to feel guilty for making that choice. Thanks to outside pressures such as family, religion, and society, marriage appears to no longer be a choice but an obligation one must fulfill in order to gain acceptance.