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kam14505's review against another edition
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
msgtdameron's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Spoiler Alert
If you are a 1820's audience this is a work about how the underclass women seduce and destroy the manhood of the gentry and upperclass. You see an man who is trying to get the servant girl he loves to marry him but she won't and he doesn't understand why. But once he figures out that she is serious about not marrying him he finds various excuse and declares that she is loose with her love and gives it willingly to any man who shows her favor.
If you are a 21'st century reader you see a rapist who is also still stalking his victim. Who will not take no for an answer. Who continues to harass Sarah, his victim, even when he is in Scotland. Who upon his return from Scotland moves into the same rooms he lived in before where he raped her. Who insists that she see him and when he finds out she has found (?) another Paramore decides that she is a loose women who has no morals. We never find out who H our narrator is but he is definitely unreliable as he is the one who attacked Sarah. His her Rapist and stalker. When he can't get her to marry him he developed an entire story out of her relationship with C. All we see is harmless walking together. And again H is an extremely unreliable narrator.
The work does have lessons for today in that the GOP wants a return to these good ol days and a continuous lower class of women and men that they as the moneyed class can abuse and stalk with impunity. If you want to see the GOP ideal world of male feamale relations read this work.
If you are a 1820's audience this is a work about how the underclass women seduce and destroy the manhood of the gentry and upperclass. You see an man who is trying to get the servant girl he loves to marry him but she won't and he doesn't understand why. But once he figures out that she is serious about not marrying him he finds various excuse and declares that she is loose with her love and gives it willingly to any man who shows her favor.
If you are a 21'st century reader you see a rapist who is also still stalking his victim. Who will not take no for an answer. Who continues to harass Sarah, his victim, even when he is in Scotland. Who upon his return from Scotland moves into the same rooms he lived in before where he raped her. Who insists that she see him and when he finds out she has found (?) another Paramore decides that she is a loose women who has no morals. We never find out who H our narrator is but he is definitely unreliable as he is the one who attacked Sarah. His her Rapist and stalker. When he can't get her to marry him he developed an entire story out of her relationship with C. All we see is harmless walking together. And again H is an extremely unreliable narrator.
The work does have lessons for today in that the GOP wants a return to these good ol days and a continuous lower class of women and men that they as the moneyed class can abuse and stalk with impunity. If you want to see the GOP ideal world of male feamale relations read this work.
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