Reflections on Austin

Jermain 2022-04-21 09:03:35

Another work about Jane after Jane Austen's Lover that I've seen, not counting the works she wrote and turned into movies (Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, ​​Mansfield Manor and...) do (drop) c-tor, um, that London tone. She agreed to his proposal because he was rich, but ran away because she didn't love him; for the other he, she rejected his proposal directly because he was not rich. In her writings, those smart and beautiful women in the countryside can always find a rich and wise gentleman, fall in love with him, and marry him. In the movie, it is repeatedly emphasized that the perfect Mr. Darcy does not exist in real life, so those women who are too independent and free can only spend their whole lives alone, just like Jane, and in the end even her niece takes pity on her. About the widower that the niece finally married came out of nowhere? Or is there a foreshadowing ahead?
To marry or not to marry, to choose love or bread, this is a dilemma faced by women, whether beautiful or intelligent. Lucky people are always rare in having both, and the answer is never the only one. Even a woman as intelligent as Austin can't give an absolute standard answer, she can only practice it by herself. , for the little niece, will always be a role model that may not be the best.

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  • Jane Austen: [reads to Cassandra from first draft of Persuasion] More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close;

    Jane Austen: She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others.

    Jane Austen: She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

    Cassandra Austen: I don't know how you have say it without tears.

    Jane Austen: I don't cry at anything that pays me money

  • Jane Austen: [Reads to Cassandra from first draft of Persuasion] More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close;

    Jane Austen: She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others.

    Jane Austen: She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

    Harris Bigg: I don't know how you can say it without tears.

    Jane Austen: I don't cry at anything that pays me money