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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
She’s so witty!
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Her prose is always exquisite! And this was definitely a more realistic tale of sisterhood carried by Austen’s characteristic critique of class society, gender roles, and economic struggles. The edition was a bit unwieldy, but the annotations of scholarly notes, photos, and art (centered around the author and story) made reading it very engaging!
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Finally finished reading all of Jane Austen's books! Ironically finishing with her first.
I adored this one.
One thing I love about Jane Austen is that her characters are not perfect, nor do they feel like archetypes of typical characters (ie the self insert character, the rebel, the misunderstood bad boy). Not to say that her characters couldn't be applicable to these archetypes, but that they are so much more. She breathes a lot of life into these people, and she would have to considering her books are largely a study of society, and not stories of action.
Take Mrs. Jennings for instance, yes she is a gossip and can be kind of annoying, but she is also a genuinely nice person and deeply cares about the people around her.
Miss Lucy Steele is obviously a social reacher and her niceness is perceived as being fake by only a few- but that is so realistic to life! She literally does the thing where she befriends the young woman who has feelings for the same man that she does so that she can guilt her for having feelings for him, and try to control the whole situation. People still do this!
SPOLIERS
I wish we could have seen more and Marianne and Colonel Brandon falling in love, I think it would have been very sweet and would have endeared them to me a little more. I struggle with their relationship given the age gap (35 and 17). He is closer in age to her mother by far....
And the fact that the reason he likes her so much is because she reminds him of his adopted sister that he was in love with....well......
Times were certainly different.
Another way this is evidently true is in the even minuscule redemption/forgiveness of Willoughby. HOW?! I'm sorry but this man is a DOG.
He admits to leading Marianne on with zero intention of it going anywhere, and only later admits to having fallen in love with her against his better judgment. Then ghosts her. Full ghost. After asking for a lock of her hair.
They see him again in London where he acts like he barely knows them and fully gaslights Marianne.
He is marrying a rich lady because he is literally a gold digger and needs money to fund his lavish tastes. So, he chooses money over love. Something that makes him shitty but not necessarily a villain right? WRONG
We then find out that he seduced Colonel Brandon's niece who is 16 years old, leaving her pregnant and promptly abandoning her. Remember the time as well- he just ruined this young lady forever. And is he ever truly held accountable for his crime? No! He does not get cast out of society the way she surely will be. He marries the rich lady who he finds kind of annoying and lives a comfortable life. And the only punishment is that he will forever regret losing Marianne? No, I want jail time. I want men to be held to much higher standards, especially one that is supposed to be a 'gentleman'
I adored this one.
One thing I love about Jane Austen is that her characters are not perfect, nor do they feel like archetypes of typical characters (ie the self insert character, the rebel, the misunderstood bad boy). Not to say that her characters couldn't be applicable to these archetypes, but that they are so much more. She breathes a lot of life into these people, and she would have to considering her books are largely a study of society, and not stories of action.
Take Mrs. Jennings for instance, yes she is a gossip and can be kind of annoying, but she is also a genuinely nice person and deeply cares about the people around her.
Miss Lucy Steele is obviously a social reacher and her niceness is perceived as being fake by only a few- but that is so realistic to life! She literally does the thing where she befriends the young woman who has feelings for the same man that she does so that she can guilt her for having feelings for him, and try to control the whole situation. People still do this!
SPOLIERS
And the fact that the reason he likes her so much is because she reminds him of his adopted sister that he was in love with....well......
Times were certainly different.
Another way this is evidently true is in the even minuscule redemption/forgiveness of Willoughby. HOW?! I'm sorry but this man is a DOG.
He admits to leading Marianne on with zero intention of it going anywhere, and only later admits to having fallen in love with her against his better judgment. Then ghosts her. Full ghost. After asking for a lock of her hair.
They see him again in London where he acts like he barely knows them and fully gaslights Marianne.
He is marrying a rich lady because he is literally a gold digger and needs money to fund his lavish tastes. So, he chooses money over love. Something that makes him shitty but not necessarily a villain right? WRONG
We then find out that he seduced Colonel Brandon's niece who is 16 years old, leaving her pregnant and promptly abandoning her. Remember the time as well- he just ruined this young lady forever. And is he ever truly held accountable for his crime? No! He does not get cast out of society the way she surely will be. He marries the rich lady who he finds kind of annoying and lives a comfortable life. And the only punishment is that he will forever regret losing Marianne? No, I want jail time. I want men to be held to much higher standards, especially one that is supposed to be a 'gentleman'