cute

Rosalind 2022-10-13 12:26:15

So cute. Manor, lawn, ball, gentleman, low-cut long dress, gorgeous top hat, complicated etiquette, pleasing classical British style. Jane Austen is really good at describing the style of the times, and is better at using dialogue to create a variety of characters. Catherine in the film is too cute, simple, and beautiful. Because she "reads too many novels", she is always full of conjectures. In order to verify her imagination, she took risks and made mistakes. . The story is beautiful like a fairy tale. The full of girlishness overflowed the screen and splashed on people's faces, which made people read it with a smile without any distractions. This is Jane Austen's first novel, and you can imagine what kind of girlish state and mind she was in when she wrote this book. Compared with the pride and stubbornness that became more mature later, the earlier ones were really pure and vivid. Although the story is very simple, it makes people unintentionally picky and sweet. Very healing.

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Northanger Abbey quotes

  • Mrs. Allen: There! Did you ever see anything prettier, Mr Allen?

    Mr. Allen: Other than yourself, do you mean, my dear?

    Mrs. Allen: Oh, fine, Mr Allen! But Catherine...

    Mr. Allen: Ah, she looks just as she should! Now... might we make our way, do you think? I entertain high hopes of our arriving at the rooms by midnight.

    Mrs. Allen: How he teases us, Catherine! Midnight, indeed!

  • [Riding in the curricle, Henry and Catherine see the first view of Northanger Abbey]

    Henry Tilney: There.

    Catherine Morland: It's exactly as I imagined. It's just like what we read about.

    Henry Tilney: Are you prepared to encounter all of its horrors?

    Catherine Morland: Horrors? Is Northanger haunted, then?

    Henry Tilney: That's just the least of it. Dungeons, and sliding panels; skeletons; strange, unearthly cries in the night that pierce your very soul!

    Catherine Morland: [sardonically] Any vampires? Don't say vampires. I could bear anything, but not vampires.

    Henry Tilney: [laughing] Miss Morland, I believe you are teasing me now.

    [seriously]

    Henry Tilney: I have to say, there is a kind of vampirism. No, let's just say that all houses have their secrets, and Northanger is no exception.