For a woman, the most easily criticized is not getting married. No matter how many merits she has, she will end up with a vulgar conclusion-"So what? She didn't marry." For a female creator, although it is the work that makes you care about her, what you talk about will still slip into her private life. After adding oil and vinegar, it will become more reverberant, and the gossip seems to be real.
It is conceivable that Jane Austen, who was not married 200 years ago, faced a more difficult situation. The harsh sound was like friction between foam plastics, which made people feel uncomfortable. On Jane Austen’s 200th birthday, I was interviewing with a BBC reporter on the lawn outside her former residence. The old trees on the roadside were hand-carried by her back then. Compared with Bath's short residence and Winchester's dying place, Austin called her "great treasure house" of her creation.
We have a red school, and the UK has a simple school. After the ceremony, some scholars spoke about why she didn’t get married when she was alive. I saw our team’s camera brother silently took out potato chips and melon seeds, revealing the intent of the people eating melons. The saliva is about to drip on the equipment, I guarantee that he is not more interested in this gossip in Pride and Prejudice. But where am I better, my ears are like antennas.
Jane Austen’s sister, Miss Cassandra Austin, was afraid of the prying eyes of melon-eating people, and also worried about the unprovoked speculations and malicious rumors of scholars. She burned a large number of letters from her sister. But we I still found some clues in the caught fish, which is harder than the London police picking Jack the Ripper.
The researcher speaking read a passage from Jane Austen’s reply to her beloved niece Fanny Knight: "Nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love. If his deficiencies of manner strike you more than all his Good qualities, give him up at once." At that time Fanny Knight was worrying about her marital problems, and her wise aunt always gave her most direct values-marriage without love is dangerous.
The six novels are all about love, love, flirting, and marriage. At that time, I felt that this female writer must have a rich emotional experience, at least she has traveled in many places and met many people. Unlike Zhang Ailing, Jane Austen always arranges a happy ending for her characters. Is she a person who is optimistic about love? This kind of speculation coincides with people's conjecture about the creatures of female writers. For example, they must have a rich life experience, and it is best to have a flood of love experience. Reading countless people can accumulate enough material for writing.
And Jane Austen's life is simply a calm response to this stereotype.
Jane Austen has lived in the Hampshire countryside all her life. She has written six novels describing the lives and associations of her most familiar and decent family, full of curly hair, chintz, and ballroom.
Jane Austen grew up in a family of the kind described intensively in her novels. It was decent in the country, but it was not as wealthy. Her father graduated from Oxford University, and her mother had a background in British upper-class society. After marriage, she often mentioned that she was married to Jane Austen's father because of love. Although the family background is decent, the family has been facing financial difficulties for a long time due to the meager salary of his father's job as a pastor.
Nevertheless, she and her sister had to learn all kinds of talents since they were young, music, dancing, painting, knitting, in order to cultivate a kind of temperament in order to increase the future competitiveness in the marriage market.
At the age of 11, she found another kind of comfort in her father's vast collection of books. Like many writers far away from her time, literature has become the only salvation for Jane Austen's dissatisfaction with reality.
At the age of 16, Jane Austen witnessed her beautiful aunt, had to marry India for money, and finally sacrificed the happiness of the rest of her life. She wrote her first novel with this as a prototype. In the novel, she asked angrily, "Is it worth it to get married for money and eventually lose a happy life?"
However, how one's own anger shakes the reality like a mountain. There were only two sources of income for British women in that era, either from their fathers or their husbands. The marriage system is more like a complicated economic decision, and women’s wealth is closely related to the marriage market. Women’s wealth is passed from father to husband, and the husband controls their wealth until their death.
A large number of women are engaged for money, and men also tend to marry a wife who can provide funds for their land and lifestyle.
Regarding all of this, Jane Austen wrote: "Without money, women have no freedom." 200 years ago, she uttered the classics that are still outdated.
Although in the novel, she creates a reunion in which women get money through marriage and finally love and money, but there are all insinuations that make me doubt whether she really believes in or expects such a life.
Jane Austen’s only love in her life has been played in the movie. At the age of 19, she fell in love with a young Irish lawyer, but she missed it because the other family rejected her because she was not rich enough. The two have never seen each other ever since.
After this love, Jane Austen never married. It is not that there is no chance, but that she has rejected all the possibilities of establishing long-term relationships. In 1802, 21-year-old Jane was proposed to marry him by her friend's brother Harris Big-Weather. For women at the time of marriage, she was relatively old, and Big-Weather was six years younger than her. She accepted the proposal, regretted it when she woke up the next day, and broke the marriage contract again.
200 years later, I was sitting on the lawn in front of her former residence, thinking why she had such thoroughness, or persistence. I believe she is loyal to herself and will never allow herself to be an exchange for money in the marriage market. And, after observing the marriage life of contemporary women in that detail, she also has a clear understanding of it.
"Whether married life can be happy or not is entirely a matter of opportunity. Before marriage, a pair of lovers have very strong tempers or very similar tempers. This does not guarantee that they will be happy. They always get farther and farther and farther away from each other. Worry. Since you have to live with this person for a lifetime, you'd better understand his shortcomings as little as possible."
It is difficult for many people in marriage to realize this reality in their entire lives. Maybe it was because she had always been an outsider to see more clearly, or maybe she no longer had rosy fantasies about marriage and love at the time. For example, she said through the characters in the novel: "Women tend to imagine things like love too unrealistically."
A woman's sobriety can save her life. The sobriety of a female writer can awaken many people who are addicted to fantasy.
Over the past 100 years, there have been several revolutions in literary taste in Britain. Most writers cannot escape the fate of rising or falling in popularity due to changes in readers’ tastes.
Many people don't understand why a person who writes a "love novel" can become popular for more than 200 years. Virginia Woolf once said: "Among all the great writers, her greatness is the most difficult to capture." Churchill waited for a large number of straight men, mocking her novels only between men and women. His daily trivia, no suspense or adventure, no worries about the French Revolution, nor Napoleon, the literature in the teacup is not great. To me, it depends on how to define what is a major event in the world. Her novels carry historical background, women’s status, marriage laws and customs, property systems, inheritance laws, lifestyles, social interactions, changes...every piece of information can be It's a national event.
"Jane Austen keenly observed people's absurdity, stupidity, pretentiousness, pretense and hypocrisy, but she did not worry about it, but found it interesting, which is really admirable... In fact, even when she is the most ironic I don’t see any malice in the words; her humor is true humor, based on careful observation and frank mentality."
What Jane Austen has written has never exceeded his familiar life. She mentioned in her letter to relatives that all she could do was "write about a few families in the countryside" and "paint slowly with a thin paintbrush on a two-inch wide ivory."
At that time, the British Regent was very obsessed with Jane Austen’s novels, but the head of the Regent’s library suggested that Austin write larger works.
Jane Austen said in reply: "I don't write legends. I must maintain my own style and continue to walk my own way, although I may never succeed on this road. I believe that I will Completely failed."
Just as the ancient Greeks engraved on the Temple of Delphi, what they thought was the most important issue in one's life—knowing oneself. Recognizing oneself and being loyal to oneself is the truth Jane Austen insists on and pursues throughout his life, whether facing life or writing, or becoming the bravest explorer of love and marriage in literary works.
In our culture, many phrases such as "to live together with friends" have been born, which shows that for ordinary people, life can be lived in a silly way. Often the more sober people are, the more they run counter to the simple and easy world. However, a life with a husband, children, and a hot kang may not be happier than being alone. Being alone does not mean miserable. Every choice of life has its own unknowns and risks. Those of us who love to inquire about the privacy of female writers did not get much entertainment in the end. Breaking the casserole will inevitably discover the cruel truth in the world: the romance in love is always fleeting, and a happy marriage depends entirely on luck.
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