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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
“Persuasion” has now become one of my most favourite novels only next in place to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre .
This I consider to be Austen’s most superior work.
I feel “Pride and Prejudice “ has unjustly been favoured over “Persuasion”
This novel is more than just a breathtakingly beautiful love story , it is filled with brilliant character analysis and constantly but subtly shines light on the atrocious prejudices that were considered as virtues in the aristocratic society .
It would be lovely to live in a world filled with more characters like Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth .
The story mainly circles around the lead character Anne Elliot .Her strength of character is evident when she was resolved to wait for true love with a man possessing a cultivated character and a cultivated mind when everyone around her were settling down and quickly running down the aisle.
She was willing to wait at the risk of remaining a spinster and going it alone but not settle for anything inferior out of fear or pressure , I admire her for her virtue and life was kind enough to repay her for her goodness with an exceptional love .
My most favourite lines from the book :
Anne Elliot:
“Yes we certainly do not forget you , as soon as you forget us .
It is perhaps our fate rather than our merit .”
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one,you need not covet it )is that of loving longest , when existence or when hope is gone “,
Captain Frederick Wentworth:
“ I can listen no longer in silence .I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach .You pierce my soul.Iam half agony , half hope .
Dare not you say that man forgets sooner than woman , that his love has an earlier death .Unjust I may have been , weak and resentful I have been , but never inconstant .You alone have brought me to Bath.
For you alone I think and plan .
Have you not seen this ?
Can you have failed to have understood my wishes ?”
This I consider to be Austen’s most superior work.
I feel “Pride and Prejudice “ has unjustly been favoured over “Persuasion”
This novel is more than just a breathtakingly beautiful love story , it is filled with brilliant character analysis and constantly but subtly shines light on the atrocious prejudices that were considered as virtues in the aristocratic society .
It would be lovely to live in a world filled with more characters like Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth .
The story mainly circles around the lead character Anne Elliot .Her strength of character is evident when she was resolved to wait for true love with a man possessing a cultivated character and a cultivated mind when everyone around her were settling down and quickly running down the aisle.
She was willing to wait at the risk of remaining a spinster and going it alone but not settle for anything inferior out of fear or pressure , I admire her for her virtue and life was kind enough to repay her for her goodness with an exceptional love .
My most favourite lines from the book :
Anne Elliot:
“Yes we certainly do not forget you , as soon as you forget us .
It is perhaps our fate rather than our merit .”
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one,you need not covet it )is that of loving longest , when existence or when hope is gone “,
Captain Frederick Wentworth:
“ I can listen no longer in silence .I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach .You pierce my soul.Iam half agony , half hope .
Dare not you say that man forgets sooner than woman , that his love has an earlier death .Unjust I may have been , weak and resentful I have been , but never inconstant .You alone have brought me to Bath.
For you alone I think and plan .
Have you not seen this ?
Can you have failed to have understood my wishes ?”