How I wish I was closing the book at the moment, only to find myself lost in my high school physics class

Earl 2022-11-19 08:58:44

It's better to watch Jane Austen's story when watching a small British country film, yep, I finished watching "Northanger Abbey" today. BTW, how unromantic it is to translate Abbey to "Temple", uh...

it's Austen's early published novel, written when she was very young. So it seems that this work is so innocent and lovely, and it also lacks a lot of arrogance and stubbornness compared with the later works. Austen has written so many exquisite love stories, but he can't get love in his life, how sad it is. I found that in Austen's works, although the heroines live in different stories, they actually have the same character in their bones. Catherine from Northanger Abbey, Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice, and Eleanor and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility, so sincere and so proud, and a little bit insane and not humble, I think All the heroines added up should be Austin himself.

I think if I lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, I would be an idiot who would sleep and sleep with such little books every day, haha... Suddenly I want to buy Austen's novels and revisit them. Every time I watch Austen's movies, I think of my high school years. I never listen to the mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology classes. I put these novels on my lap and look down at the past, often suddenly lifted up. Looking at the sunlight outside will make my eyes dazzled and come back to my senses. I still can't forget the part where I saw Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy arguing in the physics class that year, and even the soul didn't know where to go. In retrospect, it's really amazing. It's really unreasonable for a rebellious high school student like me to work hard and get into college after a third year of high school...

Well, if you have money, you can buy back this batch of famous novels that you read in high school.

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Northanger Abbey quotes

  • [last lines]

    Catherine Morland: He thought I was rich?

    Henry Tilney: It was Thorpe who misled him at first. Thorpe, who hoped to marry you himself. He thought you were Mr. Allen's heiress and he exaggerated Mr. Allen's birth to my father. You were only guilty of not being as rich as you were supposed to be. For that he turned you out of the house.

    Catherine Morland: I thought you were so angry with me, you told him what you knew. Which would have justified any discourtesy.

    Henry Tilney: No! The discourtesy was all his. I-I have broken with my father, Catherine, I may never speak to him again.

    Catherine Morland: What did he say to you?

    Henry Tilney: Let me instead tell you what I said to him. I told him that I felt myself bound to you, by honor, by affection, and by a love so strong that nothing he could do could deter me from...

    Catherine Morland: From what?

    Henry Tilney: Before I go on, I should tell you there's a pretty good chance he'll disinherit me. I fear I may never be a rich man, Catherine.

    Catherine Morland: Please, go on with what you were going to say!

    Henry Tilney: Will you marry me, Catherine?

    Catherine Morland: Yes! Yes I will! Yes!

    [They kiss, and she backs him into a wall in her passion]

    Catherine Morland: [voiceover]

    The Voice of Jane Austen: To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well. Catherine and Henry were married, and in due course the joys of wedding gave way to the blessing of a christening. The bells rang and everyone smiled. No one more than so than Eleanor, whose beloved's sudden ascension to title and fortune finally allowed them to marry. I leave it to be settled whether the tendency of this story be to recommend parental tyranny or to reward filial disobedience.

  • Catherine Morland: When shall we go into society, Mrs Allen? I suppose it is too late this evening?

    Mrs. Allen: Bless you, my child, we neither of us have a stitch to wear!

    Catherine Morland: I did bring my best frock and my pink muslin is not too bad, I think.

    Mrs. Allen: No, no, no, no! Would you have us laughed out of Bath?

    Mr. Allen: Resign yourself, Catherine! Shops must be visited! Money must be spent! Do you think you could bear it?

    Catherine Morland: Very easily, sir!