Persuasion • Spring Dies

Viviane 2022-12-11 17:58:50

If I ever see you, it will be years later. How can I congratulate you with tears and silence.
--Byron, "Spring Gone",





time lapse. The past slowly precipitated into a dim photo. All the hustle and bustle stops.

But there will always be magical moments of one kind or another, when we meet on a narrow road and face old love, what kind of expression should we use to deal with it?

Anne's face darkened when she heard that Colonel Wentworth was about to accompany the general and his wife into her house, and she went back to her room, trembling, and told her godmother about the man who would have been terrified to say his name; She in the garden wanted to attend the banquet so much at this time, even if she only looked at him once, she couldn't go because of her injured little nephew Charles and the nervous mistress; therefore, the colonel didn't see Anne, who was in his heart, at the banquet, and it was the most painful thing to miss. The medicine he took, but it couldn't cure him, so he held up a shotgun and rushed into the house where he was staying, not to kill her, but just to make an excuse for his thoughts--an invitation to go out hunting with the male host; Shizheng regretted not seeing each other yesterday, and the two cousins ​​excitedly told her about his handsomeness and wit. With a glance from the corner of their eyes, they saw him breaking in from the door, appearing in the floating dust that shone slightly under the sunlight. , is still the old appearance, but adds the vicissitudes of melancholy and immature cramps for no reason; what should I do? He was stunned everywhere, and hurriedly turned around for fear of meeting his eyes, but when he calmly said that he was an old acquaintance with her, his heart was sour; At the age of thirty, as long as she pleases him, she will get married, but she will stare at her and say something she will never forget: as long as the woman has a resolute personality, she will not change her mind at will because of other people's persuasion. What I didn't say is that you love me so much and you want to abandon me, do you want to marry money and power? There was a place in her heart that collapsed, thinking that yes, he is no longer mine, the only fault is my ruthlessness and weakness, as if he said "cowardly pretending to be weak". "He has been heartbroken, but he has never been able to have no friendship. He will still help me when I am suffering..."

Jane Austen's work is always a comedic ending, no matter how tragic it may be, and this "Persuasion" is no different. Maybe it's because Jane is lively and optimistic by nature, or maybe it's just that she is expressing the happiness she has never had in her life.

The heroine of "Persuasion" is quiet and introverted, completely different from the characters in Jane's other works. The only thing in common is that the ending of the story is always good. The movie wasn't great, and the ending inevitably fell into a cliché, but the scene was so beautiful that I happened to see the verses in Byron's "Spring Die", as if it was written for them.



If I ever see you, it will be years later. How can I congratulate you with tears and silence.




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Persuasion quotes

  • Captain Wentworth: Miss Elliot, I can bear this no longer. You pierce my soul. I'm half agony, half hope. Unjust I may have been. Weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years ago.

  • Captain Wentworth: I have loved none but you. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this?