Re: Hating on Jane
Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Not to be nit-picky, but it's very unlikely that> any of the Bennet girls would play such a> fashionable and expensive...
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...I woke up this morning with the realization Lady Cat was referring to just the sisters. Goes to show that one should never respond to a comment when suffering from dead head syndrome...
View ArticleRe: Hating on Jane
I don't quite agree here. I think that you're right about most of Austen's antagonists, that they can't be considered true villains.I do think Wickham and Willoughby classify as villains, though,...
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I think it's pretty clear from the treatment of Mary Crawford and her harp that it was a newfangled instrument, just starting to be popular. Think also of Mrs. Elton, saying that Jane Churchill could...
View ArticleRe: Mathematical model of Pride and Prejudice
That left me behind, rather! Give me calculus any day
View ArticleSorry, I meant to say Mary Crawford, not Maria(nfm)
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I agree.For what it's worth, Edmund makes basically the same point to Fanny earlier in the book, when he says that Henry could not make Mr. Rushworth unhappy if Maria didn't let him. Miss Manners is...
View ArticleRe: Hating on Jane
Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Not to be nit-picky, but it's very unlikely that> any of the Bennet girls would play such a> fashionable and expensive...
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Lizzy,Re your comment:> For what it's worth, Edmund makes basically the> same point to Fanny earlier in the book, when he> says that Henry could not make Mr. Rushworth> unhappy if Maria...
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While I don't wish to continue the argument of who bears greater guilt (in which I think we mutually agreed that we respect and understand the other person's point) I think that Maria was perfectly...
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Suze,All very good points. Her very marriage to Rushworth was little more than an act of spite. So she had sowed the seeds, and when she did with Henry what she almost certainly would have done with...
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But the Lucases have a pianoforte, occasionally helping with the mince pies does not mean having no time to learn to play the piano. As for Eliz being called upon to play, she was a new guest at...
View ArticleIt's not that they get it wrong
Saying "Charlotte" instead of "Elizabeth" was forced due to the change in the movie plot respect to the novel. In the novel, Lady Catherine says that during the first evening that she invited the...
View ArticleFrank, Gen T, Lady Cat, Mr Elliot
Jim D. Wrote:------------------------------------------------------->> That Emma is not broken-hearted is only because,> though she didn't consciously realize it (and> Frank Churchill...
View ArticleRe: Kitty can't be the villain because I tend to forget she exists
When I posted the above I mentioned that Kitty wasn't exactly strongly present in the book. Later it occurred to me that the creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries obviously felt the same way because...
View ArticleLess angelic does not mean diabolical
Many fanfiction writers are not contented with painting a "less perfect" Jane, they have to make her horrible.
View ArticleRe: piano
We have no indication that Charlotte ever played, but that doesn't mean she never learned. She may well have taken lessons but found she had no aptitude for it, and never grew good enough to wish to...
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