Classic Austen - The Bad Man in Jane Austen's Novels

Austin is good at writing people, it is recognized. A nagging or weak mother, a father with a quirky temper, a vulgar middle-aged man, an old woman who has money and spare time and loves to chew her tongue, and the heroines of young women in literature and art more than two hundred years ago, and of course, let More than 200 years later, the young women of literature and art are dreaming about the rich male protagonists who have no father, no mother: Darcy, Knightley, Colonel Brandon, Colonel Wentworth... Later, enjoying the manor without dealing with the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the fairy tale world described by grandma Austin is really quite perfect.

Between thirty and forty years old, wealthy, basically ruthless, serious-looking but hot-hearted men are really a hit with artistic women who have fantasies in their hearts. However, most of these men are not the objects of love at first sight for women. Grandma Austin believed that a literary woman would fall in love with a bad man before meeting a boring man. These bad men are personable, talkative and cynical, any woman can be captured by them, and our literary women are no exception. These men made a high-profile appearance, and then left in disrepute. But what did these bad guys do wrong?

Taking Wickham as an example, he owed a lot of gambling debt and tried to seduce the owner's sister, then fled to Longbourn to continue flirting with the wives, hooking up with a young girl and then running away. This behavior was a sin in Austin's eyes, but in Austen's eyes. Men's eyes may be romantic. As for Willoughby, for the sake of her own food and clothing, she ignored Marian who was in love and married another daughter. That wasn't enough, and Austin charged him with seducing a teenage girl, even though he had real feelings for Marianne. Gambling and distraction are weapons to attract women in romantic male writers, but they are enough to ruin a man's reputation in classical Austen. Austin is very straightforward with these bad men, and the literary heroines are very determined to dismiss them after learning the truth. If it is now, the screenwriters will definitely let these bad men entangle with the heroine. But for Austin, love triangles, extramarital affairs, etc. are obviously new terms, which are incredible.

Having said so much, ITV's "Lost in Austin" can simply be changed to "Lost in Pride and Prejudice" if the second season is not filmed. The appearance of the modern heroine Amanda has brought new experiences to the protagonists in many books. A lot of reviews have been written about these very well, and there is no need to repeat them here. This version of Darcy can be ranked second or third in my mind. The first is for Colin Firth, and Laurence Oliver is also good, but the one that interests me the most is Wickham. From Wickham's point of view, the screenwriter spoke out the bitterness in the hearts of "bad" men, so that the plot of the bad men is not too classical in this modern film. Just imagine, what would Elizabeth do if she knew that Wickham admitted that she was going to kidnap Georgiana out of consideration for Georgiana's reputation? Such a scenario would have been entirely impossible for the classical Austin, but modern Amandas might be faced with a choice: Darcy barely exists in the real world except in daydreams, and some vices are endearingly endearing to Wickham They will suddenly appear in front of you. We are lost in Austin's world, will Austin be lost in the modern world?

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