Jane Austen is teh r0xx0r omg

[dreamer_easy]

Just up to the chapter in Pride and Prejudice where Mr Darcy SPOILERs Elizabeth and she gives him a hefty piece of her mind. This is thrilling stuff!!!

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[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Hello Kate,

This is Lynne Triffitt, you met me at Kyla and David's (I was the non-horror flick person at the pick-the-horror-film-night. I had my head under a pillow most of the night).

I'v just finished reading P&P and I have to admit it hooks me everytime (I think this was the 9th or 10th time). This time I was struck by the level of sarcasm and bite in the book. Austen is not nice to any of her characters. Even Elizabeth (obviously Austen's favourite character in this book) gets a serve. If this is the first time for you, then you're yet to get to it. No more said.

Elizabeth's speech is a brillant bit of writing. It's hard to see how ANY man would be willing to forgive her, and continue to love her after that. However, as Darcy himself admits, he goes about telling her his feelings in entirely the wrong way. He expects her to fall at his feet. He expects her to be grateful that a man of his consequence denines to love her. He is so proud, and she knocks him of his pedestal with her rejection of his offer. She has her pride, and it is the match of his. Later, when they resolve their differences, he has a lovely line about it.

Mind you, he'd be a pain to live with. I don't understand why anyone would find him sexy (unless he's played by Colin Firth).

Have you read Masefield Park? I'd be interested in what you thought of Fanny Price. If you want to start a fight with a pack of Austenites, ask for their opinions of Fanny Price.

This site is a lot of fun for anyone interested in Austen
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html



Emma Tennett has also written two sequels Pemberley and An Unequal Marriage. Good, but not Austen.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Hiya Lynne!

Elizabeth and Mr D'Arcy both need a swift kick in their respective blind spots. They were obviously made for each other. :-)

I have to confess that reading D'Arcy's impassioned proposal gave me the girly squees. He's dreadful, but he can't *help* himself. There's a great deadpan line in there about her not being insensible of the compliment of the attentions of such a man. And then she gets to turn him away! Hee hee hee! I wouldn't kick Mr Firth out of bed for eating crackers, but that chapter worked on paper as well.

It's Mansefield Park I failed to finish, not Northanger Abbey. I think. Which is the one where they're putting on the play?