Dignity, always dignity...

Zoe 2022-01-21 08:02:23

While watching the 95-year version of PAP, I feel that the whole movie seems to be about the things that some parents give to their sons and daughters.

Mr. Darcy has no father, no mother, a car, a house, plus a handsome and unrestrained sorrow, before he can enter the eyes of Mrs. Bennett—as Elizabeth said:
"If he doesn’t have ten thousand pounds a year, Is it the same handsome?"

I never doubt that my parents’ consideration of future objects’ wallets is mostly for the happiness of their children... But this is somewhat weird, and it always makes me have an inappropriate analogy:
raising The son’s family is worried that the son will not have enough money to buy the daughter-in-law; the adopter of the daughter is worried that the daughter will not be able to sell herself at a good price and have a good husband.

A few days ago, I saw a poem written by a female poet "thigh", saying that the blind date is like selling B... I don’t know if I disagree, but equating parents with pimps is quite rebellious. .

The divorce rate in Beijing is 53%. I bet that a large part of it is a mess of mandarin ducks...Who got married for divorce? Isn't this ruining yourself?

On forums related to marriage trivial matters, don’t tell me that you are going to speak because you want to be a model of the bitter woman above. When you start complaining that ignorant marriage is hell, please think about how you got off.

In Jane Austen’s time, women had no inheritance rights, so Mrs. Bennett had five daughters and she had to deal with it as hardly as she had five Tibetan mastiffs—so this old mother had the most reason to have a headache, even if she was stupid. The calculation is so hard that today's children can't see it.
What's more, the national conditions in the UK are completely opposite to that of China: the Chinese dynasty will produce 20 million bachelors, but the UK will not introduce them, but there will be more old girls. So women deliberately want to marry themselves-or even sell them, I don't mind at all, and I understand very well.

But the question is...Is it related to enlightenment?
Well, I don’t want to talk about Jane Austen, I just want to talk about it...

Dear Chinese parents, you are much better than Mrs. Bennett now. People are deliberately planning to marry five girls and go out. Most of you have only one kid and one girl... So can you give more consideration to the happiness of your children? , Don’t just look at money, cars, houses...Beijing’s divorce rate is 53%, is this a joke? What's more, when you hope that the other half of your children will have no parents or mothers, you are cursing other people's parents to die. Think about your conscience. When others hope that your children's parents are best not in the world, will you be happy?

I also want to say to all my brothers and sisters that compared to Austin’s marital resources at that time, you originally had the conditions to live a better life than the men and women of that era-Austin has never been married for life, you are in a hurry What are you afraid of?
Afraid of being old and lonely? Afraid of being helpless? I don't think this is the most important reason: in fact, what many people are really afraid of is the nagging of their parents, the perspective of society, and the impetuous mood when others are married but they are not.
But what about married? I don't preach vulgar things like long live love-sleeping with someone you are not interested in every day is a kind of torture.
Dear friends and sisters, is your sleep right so cheap?

The novel cannot be taken seriously, but both Elizabeth and Austin live with dignity-even if their economic status is low, they still do not prevent them from pursuing an independent life.

We have more conditions than them to enjoy life freely, enjoy love, enjoy everything that is not imposed on us... But

why can't we have more dignity?

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Pride and Prejudice quotes

  • Lydia Bennet: Look at Kitty! She's a drunken door!

  • Mr. Collins: I understand, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that it is the delicate and charming custom of young ladies to say no when they mean yes, even three or four refusals. I am, therefore, by no means discouraged.