Pride and Prejudice

[eenie114]

You silly girl. Emma FTW.

 

[whiteflare]

Emma? Eenie, did you say EMMA?

Ugh.

I picked up that book, read two paragraphs, snorted, and put it down again.

At least I lasted a bit longer with Pride and Prejudice.... which actually DOES end up getting interesting once you're past the formalities. There are some pretty epic scenes in there. Like Darcy's rejection

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

First, Pride & Predjudice was NOT written in the middle ages (nor was it set in the middle ages). It was written in the early 19th century--roughly 200 years ago.

Jane Austen's novels were realistic of middle- to upper-class life at that point in time. The Bronte' sisters' works were very gothic (original use of the term); not a genre I care for. As for choices women had--how about reading some history and seeing some of the things that they managed to accomplish despite societal norms. BTW, unmarried women living with their relatives were not generally considered a burden as they might be today--it was the norm, and what was expected. Extended families sharing a home occurred far more frequently, and was not considered unusual or odd.

 

[chickenbottom]

i loved the movie but they just spoke way to fast

 

[eenie114]

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Oh, keep going! It's soooooooooooooooo funny, especially when she argues with her friends and tries to match them up! And her dad is a little bit like Mrs. Bennet.

 

[mom'sfolly]

All of us, we're the TV generation. What does this mean in relation to Jane Austen? It means the advent of TV changed the novel. TV works in a 30 to 60 minute segment, less if you figure in commercials. They have a very short time to tell a story. The effect of this type of story telling on literature was to make books start faster. In Austen's time, books spent a lot more time with setting, background and tone, so books in that time period build slowly with details being filled in all along the way. Reading the first two paragraphs of a novel written 150-200 years ago tells you nothing about the story.