No regrets, no regrets

Ruthe 2022-04-21 09:03:35

Jane Austen has always been my favorite female writer, and in the past year or two, revisiting her books has turned into a solitary enjoyment in many quiet episodes. The past two years are also the most memorable days for her. Various works have been discussed constantly, and I have been fortunate to witness several films related to her: "Pride and Prejudice", "Jane Austen Book Club", "Becoming Jane", etc. , and more fortunately, most of them are still well shot. Maybe she's a woman with too much content, and it's enough to pick up on one of them.

"On the vast green field, the wind blew and tugged her long monochromatic tunic, and she stood there like a leafy tree standing alone not far away. Trees, and show people with their backs, with the light and shadow cast from a certain direction..." --- This is my imaginary picture of a certain freeze of Jane Austen.

Recently, I have to recommend "Miss Austen's Regret" again. The BBC's works should be more realistic. Only 85 minutes. The middle-aged Jane described in the film until her departure seems to be more in line with the vague image of a female writer in my mind, and what is more confirmed is the imagined lonely back with color and light and shadow that appeared several times during the film. Wise, arrogant, quiet and imprinted on the surface, majestic inside. . . It turned out that she did not close herself in the fiction and imagination of the novel; it turned out that she was also quite masculine; it turned out that she was also good at flirting and dared to flirt, and often had the upper hand and enjoyed the speed of speech; it turned out that the men at that time were also Do you like romance novels like her?

After reading it, I want to ask: Does Miss Austen really have the same Regret (regret)? Maybe, there will be some fragments of occasional memories, after all, she is a woman with normal emotions. But as she said in the film, "Things will always get better...", as rational as she is, she will eventually see the good side of her life, because her principle is that it is better to lack than to waste. "Because of you, I choose freedom" to live freely, to experience in the works, to be excited, isn't it a different kind of happiness? Everyone has their own life, and that is her choice. As smart as she is, she should have no regrets. ---It's just "the height is too cold"...

At the end of the film, the sister who has been with you all the time burns all the correspondence of Jane who died young, there is nothing to regret. Just let Miss Austen be quiet in the past reality, private affairs only belong to individuals, as long as future generations know her and cherish her memory through her works, it is enough! I can't help but think of Zhang Ailing, another female writer who also loves. Recently, the media has been buzzing about the manuscript of her posthumous work "Little Reunion", which was finally published in violation of her will that she requested to be destroyed. The experience of the heroine in the book is very similar to Zhang Ailing After another round of check-mark speculation behind him, as for its literary value, it is probably no longer the concern of most people. I believe that this talented woman Zhang, who is also intelligent in nature and has a high standing but emotionally rough, doesn't like this kind of noise.

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Miss Austen Regrets quotes

  • 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