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Jane Austen is my favorite. So good that Charlotte Bronte's comments that she is petty and caustic are not entirely biased, even when acknowledging that Mark Twain has criticized her for being pretentious. But she still couldn't help being impressed by her "two-inch ivory carving"-like exquisite and delicate writing style full of British humor.
Reading Jane Austen is like a mountain stream at the beginning of the morning, enjoying the clean and clear spring water flowing slowly; it is like meeting a lively and charming girl dancing on the top of the mountain in the sunset. Elegance and freshness are romantically combined in her words, and a moving picture of the realistic life and beautiful scenery of the English countryside in the 18th century is slowly unfolding before our eyes.
As a super-era writer, the originator of pure love Mary Sue, Jane Austen, through six well-organized works 200 years ago, told the world with her arrogant insight and eloquent mockery: a marriage without love is A most undesirable and unbearable thing. Jane was never married in her entire life, and although she had a few romances, the tenderness of her youth flowed through Shakespeare's poems without a trace. But she borders on paranoid that every novel has a happy ending.
The expectation of happiness is the eternal theme of young boys and girls. Jane Austen's bowl after bowl of simple but not simple, warm and powerful chicken soup, countless people like it. I think that's what makes her work so enduring. After all, fantasy is more beautiful than reality.
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Among all Jane Austen's works, the most famous is Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth, played by English Rose Keira Knightley, looks back and sees the classic scene of her beloved Mr. Darcy walking towards her affectionately through the twilight, raising the psychological threshold of how many girls choose a mate.
As a companion piece, "Sense and Sensibility", the momentum is much weaker. In 1995, the film version directed by Ang Lee and starring Emma and Little Pork was released, and received rave reviews. It also won a number of Oscar nominations, creating a sense of existence.
For me, my favorite is the three-episode miniseries from the BBC in 2008. Sophisticated production, the original British countryside scenery, and even the beautiful artistic conception of the wind blowing shells jumping in the title is enough to make up for the slightly larger plot adaptation, the handsome Edward played by the big cousin, and the actor who plays Willoughby too much like a fool Mr. Bean has three shortcomings.
It is also the story of the daughter of an ordinary squire who falls in love and gets married. Jane Austen wrote a different charm and character.
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Eleanor and Marianne are two sisters, one is the representative of reason and the other is the embodiment of emotion.
After the sudden death of his father, the narrow-minded and selfish brother and sister-in-law quickly took over the Nolan Manor regardless of their situation. Mrs. Dashwood and Marianne immersed themselves in extreme sadness. Their youngest daughter, Margaret, hid in hiding and did not want to see anyone. Only Eleanor overcame her grief and stood up to preside over the overall situation: to undertake the thoughtful etiquette of her brother and sister-in-law, Picking a residence and arranging relocation, and constantly appease the grief and indignation of mothers and sisters.
The presence of Edward and the sight of beloved Nolan were Eleanor's greatest comfort during these grey days. Edward is sister-in-law Fanny's younger brother, but has a very different temperament from his sister's.
His noble character and thoughtfulness were like a spring breeze, which wrinkled Eleanor's heart and won the favor of Mrs. Dashwood. However, Marianne, her younger sister, disagreed. She believed that Edward lacked anger and enthusiasm, and did not have the charm to attract his sister. I also think that my sister is too calm in the face of love and not emotional enough.
"I'm not going to be happy if I don't live completely with my like-minded person. He has to be in love with me, and we've got to be obsessed with the same books, the same music."
"Mom, the more experience I have, the more I feel that I will never find a man I really like."
Seventeen-year-old Marianne said to her mother sadly, standing by the window, watching the scene of Edward and Eleanor talking intimately. She didn't know that what happened next would shatter her firm stance at this time. She thought that only fiery love could fill the regrets in life, but later found that too many regrets in life came from too fiery love.
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Not long after the family moved to the picturesque Barton Cottage, Marianne fell in love. She accidentally fell while walking in the rain, but was decisively picked up by a gentleman who happened to pass by and sent back to her family. From then on, Marianne's eyes could no longer take her eyes off his face. He was young, handsome, and well-mannered, and even the name "Willoughby" was very pleasant.
After Willoughby's sincere visit the next day, Marianne was sure they were like each other, they both liked music and dance, and they worshipped the same book and passage. Willoughby also tried his best to please her, acquiescing to all her decisions, to all her original intentions.
They enjoyed the sweetness that men and women in love should have, regardless of secular etiquette, no matter when and where they only have each other in their hearts. The BBC drama version interprets the scene full of pink: Willoughby takes Marianne without authorization to visit the Ellenham Manor, which he will inherit in the future. They went upstairs one after the other, and their fingers crossed the railings, touching them intentionally or unintentionally. The shot of light and shadow wandering at their fingertips was more exciting than the emotional kiss by the window later.
The good times didn't last long. One afternoon, when the Marian family was waiting for Willoughby to come to propose, they waited for his sudden farewell. Until they met again at a ball in London, Willoughby was indifferent, and was replaced by a young rich lady. It was as if everything that had happened in Barton Country was just a glimpse.
Marianne's shock was no trivial matter, and she was even more grief-stricken when she figured out the ins and outs. The personable lover Willoughby turned out to be a complete shameless person. He has a criminal record of abducting and impregnating Eliza, who is only 14 years old, and now, in order to repay the debts arising from his long-term luxury life, he ignored the affectionate money he had made with Marianne, and in a blink of an eye, he has a property of 50,000 pounds. Miss Grey.
The endless pain of lovelorn tormented the fragile Marianne, and her loss of reason aggravated her depression and depression. If it wasn't for walking in the thunder and lightning forest and fainting, almost contracting tuberculosis and dying, it would be almost impossible for her to wake up from the emotional torture.
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The brush with the god of death made Marianne grow rapidly. She began to reflect on herself, contrasting her emotionality with Eleanor's rational forbearance.
Eleanor suffered the same pain when Marianne suffered a broken love. The hypocritical Lucy revealed to her that she had made a private life with Edward four years ago, and this confirmed conclusion ruined the possibility of Eleanor's happiness. However, in order not to worry her mother and her sisters, she chose to bear it quietly. After Lucy recounts her hopes and joys again and again, she has to help her keep her secrets; she has to accompany her despairing and collapsed sister out of the shadows.
Fortunately, Happy Ending offset all the ordeals the sisters went through. The courtesies of those mulberries, rivers, and yew arbors in Delaf awaited at last their most ideal hostess.
The rational Eleanor released her long-suppressed feelings into tears of joy when she learned that Edward had dissolved her marriage; the emotional Marian became rational after the storm and chose the cloth that she had always loved and cared for. Colonel Landon tied the knot.
When I read this book at the age of 18, I deeply admired Marianne's unrestrained disposition in both sorrow and joy; when I read it again at the age of 28, I became more and more appreciative of Eleanor Tai's unrepentant bearing. Perhaps, we are all a combination of reason and emotion. Marianne when she was young, Eleanor when she grew up.
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