For many years after reading her novel, I didn't know her own emotional history, and Tom Lefroy, only 6 pages in the biography. In British society at the time, getting married for love was a stupid game. Tom Lefroy is a lawyer trainee, handsome and intelligent, but also very poor. Soon they found Jane Austen, who was in sympathy with him, and the two found countless common interests with each other. They chatted in the woods, danced at the crowded ball, and the two fell in love. But they are opposed by their parents and relatives, and Tom proposes to run away, which will obviously be disastrous. Austen's family's financial situation is not good, and she will face poverty and humiliation. Tom's family in Ireland is also counting on him to get ahead. If you choose to run away, everything will be destroyed: family, friends and wealth. The two eventually separated from each other.
This Persuasion is her last work, isn't Anne and Wentworth just herself and Tom Lefroy? In reality, Tom became a successful lawyer, got married, had a lovely wife and children, while Austen could neither accept a loveless economic marriage nor abandon material things and reality, and was still alone. So after writing the depressing and miserable first half of Persuasion, she regretted choosing to stay instead of eloping with Tom, thus losing the happiness that should belong to her. Austen felt that he was so pitiful that he made Wentworth famous in Persuasion. After returning home, he couldn't let go of Anne. For more than 200 years, all the girls with average appearance, average family background and independent thinking ability are eagerly looking forward to the emergence of their own Mr Darcy. And the real Tom Lefroy once called it "boy's love" when he recalled the original relationship, which means that there is a certain impulsive element. The way of thinking of men and women is really different. The so-called congenial and unswerving love is not just the woman's wishful thinking.
I haven't read the original book, but in the 2007 version, the camera processing method is still very modern. When Anne wrote a diary or looked in the mirror several times, she looked at the camera, as if asking us in front of the camera, do you think so? ? I was shocked. Austen emphasizes the importance of an ideal marriage and regards the feelings of both men and women as the cornerstone of an ideal marriage. But this is an era of the jungle, and the so-called marriages based on social status and money, which Austen strongly despised before, are commonplace in this society. Sometimes I wonder, is this also a way of living? Marriage and love are different, and the realm between Lizzie and Darcy is like a god because of the mutual understanding of each other's minds and hearts, and it lasts for more than ten years. I was fooled by Austen. Why do I believe I can get something that she doesn't even get in reality?
Before I went to Korea, I always despised stick dramas, thinking that there is no one in this world who loves Tianai so much. This is poison. However, when they arrived in Seoul, they found that they really lived like this, living in a world they loved. In fact, there was nothing wrong with it, but it just didn't fit the current national conditions of our country. Austen's work is regarded as a treasure by the British, so I can't say that the British are not influenced by her values of marriage, but in China, being persuaded by Austen, it does not work. Everything changes so quickly and I could not catch up. I used to think, Well-educated but poor, such a woman often suffers because she knows too much. But now that I think about it, such women either do not recognize the essence of marriage, or they are unwilling to compromise with reality. If I have children in the future, I will never let them touch things that are not in line with the national conditions.
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