Jane Austen is known as the originator of romance, but her novels are not just as simple as romance.
Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bentley, Charlotte and Collins, the Bennets, Lydia and Wickham, five couples and lovers, five different states of married life. There is an ideal love, there is a marriage that is beautiful and separate, there is a hypocritical combination of bad people, and there is a life of chicken feathers.
Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bentley, the representatives of positive love and marriage in the play.
Jane and Bentley both fell in love at first sight at the ball. Jane was beautiful, generous, kind, gentle, with outstanding temperament. Bentley was handsome, gentleman, kind, courteous, and behaved like a spring breeze. Jane was the eldest daughter of a squire, and Bentley was a rich gentleman. Both are positive and optimistic. However, even people who are so compatible and fall in love with each other at first sight almost miss it, why?
Charlotte once pointedly pointed out that Jane should be more active and should show her liking for Bentley more. From Jane's current performance, it is completely impossible to see her liking for Bentley. And Bentley himself, under Darcy's analysis, came to the conclusion that Jane didn't like him, so he retreated back to London, and the connection between the two was interrupted.
In essence, Bentley and Jane have different views on the progress of their relationship. Bentley faces Jane, who is in love, like a happy husky, and makes no secret of her affection and love for Jane. However, in Jane's view Come, you should fully understand the character and character of this person before confirming your relationship, so even if you have a very good impression of Bentley, Jane's speech and behavior are very subtle, so that, except for Elizabeth, who is very close to Jane, everyone around me thinks that. Jane didn't like Bentleys.
Elizabeth and Darcy didn't fall in love at first sight, but in the crowd at the ball, both Elizabeth and Darcy saw each other at a glance. Both Elizabeth and Darcy were arrogant and self-respecting people, but Darcy would be arrogant to the outside, and Elizabeth would be arrogant to hide. The first time the two met, Elizabeth's self-esteem was stabbed by Darcy's arrogance, so Elizabeth had prejudice against Darcy, prejudice brought disgust, and thereafter, blinded.
Darcy looked down on Elizabeth's mother and sister, and felt that Elizabeth's family was a drag, and it was extremely incompatible with his own background and status, but even so, Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth continued to grow and eventually erupted. Intellectual restraint cannot resist the attraction of the soul. Compared with the love between Jane and Bingley, which is completely free from the reality and the world, Elizabeth and Darcy are fettered by the reality and the world, including Darcy because of the difference in their status (Elizabeth's background is not bad, but Darcy's background is too good. ), Elizabeth's relatives who could not be on the stage, struggling with reason and emotion, Elizabeth showed a sense of loss after seeing the Bloomberg Manor.
What is enviable is that even though the two consider many realistic factors when facing their relationship, they can still meet each other in life and become each other's soul mates. And what I admire most about Darcy is: after considering various issues, when Darcy made the decision to accept love, he also calmly accepted the various problems he would face, and when the problems occurred, he could To confront and solve problems head-on without blame, and be able to solve them. When Darcy made his decision about love, he not only decided to be with Elizabeth, but accepted all the troubles that Elizabeth herself might bring, so that when those troubles did happen in the future, he did not blame Elizabeth. And complain, and do not regret their decision because of this.
Charlotte and Elizabeth are both people with sober cognition. The difference is that Elizabeth still has fantasies and persistence in love after recognizing the reality, while Charlotte has no fantasies and pursuits about love. In love, living the life you want is more important. The common perception is that Charlotte represents a compromise with reality, but has Charlotte really compromised reality? Charlotte said she was not a romantic person, she just wanted a comfortable home, and considering Mr. Collins' status and character, she thought she and Collins would be happily married.
Collins had already served as a priest in a certain area of London. This job not only had a fixed and high income in the UK at that time, but also had a low status. Collins had his own small manor in London. Charlotte did not need to worry about the economy after marriage. Dress up the small manor they live in as you like. In terms of emotional intelligence and IQ, Charlotte is absolutely crushing Collins, Charlotte can clearly understand and guess Collins' thoughts, but Collins doesn't know Charlotte's true thoughts, and Collins has no need for this. , Since then, in the relationship between the two, Charlotte has absolute control, she persuades Collins to spend more time in the garden and study, so that she only spends a few minutes with Collins a day, As Charlotte said, everything was fine, the only thing she had to endure was loneliness. Therefore, I do not agree that Charlotte represents a compromise with reality. Charlotte pursues such a life and seizes the opportunity to get the life she wants, which can be said to have achieved her goal ahead of schedule.
Lydia and Wickham, the combination of a pair of bad people, the audience can completely foresee their disastrous married life, they are a pair of people who will bring harm and trouble to society and the people around them, and the audience will generally not give them Any sympathy, but will be bothered by the trouble they make.
In the 21st century, Jane Austen's descriptions of Wickham, who is full of lies, rhetoric, and bohemian hypocrisy, can still help us identify such scumbags. On Wickham's first visit to Elizabeth's house, Mr Bennet sarcastically said, "It is wonderful that he can tell us his misfortune so vividly, and with such a gripping story at hand, who would read a novel? What?", that is to say, when a person shares his unfortunate privacy with strangers on various occasions, and gains sympathy from everyone, it is debatable whether he is really sad, and if this person is also light in the story. When you lightly put aside your own responsibilities and artfully state the fault of others, then there is a high probability that the person has fabricated the facts and concealed the truth. Every time Wickham wanted to compose a person and create a positive image of himself, he would symbolically give a word or two of compliments that were innocuous and universal, and then confirmed to the interviewer his familiarity with the person and his views. Then follow the words of the person talking, arranging and slandering this person, and finally there will even be a set of green tea endings.
When he was young, Mr. Bennet was greedy for his wife's youthful beauty, and married Mrs. Bennet, who had no brain, so that soon after the marriage, he lost all hope of married life. It can be said that Mrs. Bennet will never touch Mr. Bennet's spiritual world, and the two sides have nothing in common. Even Mr. Bennet's attitude towards his wife is contemptuous, so when Elizabeth told him, she decided to accept When Darcy proposed, Mr. Bennet solemnly warned his daughter, I don't want you to despise the future object you choose.
Mr. Bennet is deeply tormented by married life, but it cannot be avoided completely, so when he is with his wife, avoidance, ridicule and ignorance are the norm. As the head of the family, Mr. Bennet has some responsibilities that he must bear, so many times, he cannot escape. Improper escaping is brewing a bigger disaster. Facing Lydia's infatuation with the militia, Bennet chose to escape and asked Lydia to follow the colonel to the place where the militia was stationed. As a result, Lydia recklessly eloped with Wickham, almost destroying the entire family. reputation. So much so that I've been wondering if Lydia's character is partly due to the lack of Mr. Bennet's education in her upbringing.
Finally, pay tribute to all the actors and perform all the roles as they should.
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