It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
The role of literature is to confront the darkness within us and to find a way to overcome it.