What they think about Mr. Colin???

11:49:00 Lady Li 0 Comments




This character has awakened some curiosities about the role that has in the book "Pride and Prejudice". For example:
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  •       Dinah Birch, professor at the University of Liverpool, examines the cleric as a critique of the church role in society. Mr. Collins that it is "by no means an example of holiness."
       
  • Margaret Kirkham said that Mr. Collins, who will inherit Longbourn, as a way to Austen "mocks sexist pride and prejudice"

·  You can read of what Ivor Morris thinks in his book Mr Collins Considered: Approaches to Jane Austen.

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“Elástica”, give you 6 reasons why you should let your Pride and Prejudice and started reading Jane Austen.

10:03:00 Lady Li 0 Comments

I am quite sure that you find people who say they have no interest in reading Jane Austen books. Well, the Brazilian site, "Elástica", give you 6 reasons why you should let your pride and prejudice and started reading Jane Austen.



1-    She chaffed the bourgeoisie since the 19th century;

Back then, the bourgeoisie did not ask for military intervention, but made it clear his preconception related to social class. Austen used irony and humor to describe the behavior of the elite of the time and class conflict in a conservative society.



2-    Your women characters may be considered advanced of her time;

First we need to remember that Jane Austen was born in the 18th century, in which the woman had no right not to inherit his father's estate. Despite the books always revolve around the marriage, the writer of the heroines are represented at the same level as men.





In the book Pride Prejudice (1813), the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet is independent and has shown a behavior considered inappropriate for a girl of that age. Elizabeth also makes it clear that never will marry only for money and is represented on the same intellectual level as Mr. Darcy. The woman placing the question in society is repeated in other novels, more openly even in Emma (1815).




3-    Authors like JK Rowling were inspired by her;

If you love Harry Potter and JK Rowling, know that Britain has admitted many times that his favorite writer is Jane Austen.




4-    One of her novels has marks of Gothic literature;

Jane Austen used the references of gothic settings, like medieval castles, ruins and churches in the novel the Northenger Abbey (1818).





5-    She is on the list from "The Guardian" of the 100 best novels written in English;



6-    You will probably identify with one character.


Austen characterizes well the feelings and fears of the characters. Just open a book to recognize the rights and wrongs of some of them.


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Confessions,

Am I the only one to feel this way?

09:38:00 Unknown 0 Comments

Hello dears...
Today I felt the need to write. I was listening the song "Your hands are cold" from Pride and Prejudice 2005 and I have the same feeling as always, I was born in the wrong era.

I am a romantic person that when I love someone, I love passionately and intensity but nowadays people don’t know what is that.

The love letters no longer exist,  marriages are treated as business and respect disappeared. Previously people had less things, the living conditions could not be very good but they were more united and happy. And when they had the good fortune to find a great love they did everything to last forever.

Sorry but needed to speak up about it, every day I know people who betrayed his companions or gave up fighting for their marriages. I know sometimes it is impossible but I think people give up too quickly, in this days.


This music has this effect on me… I think how nice it would be able to walk through the green fields of England and when I got home , have a Mr.Darcy to receive me with all that incandescente love.

Am I the only one to feel this way?


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CharlotteBronte,

Jane Eyre

11:48:00 Unknown 0 Comments

Hello fans, 

Today I will talk about my experience with “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte. 
This story teach us that, even with bad characters, cruel events and no hopes, it’s possible have an incandescent and glorious happy ending. 
Without no parents, Jane Eyre faces now a severe education from her malefic aunt,  Mrs Reed, who hates her, and then send her to Lowood school, where she have a miserable, lonely and unhappy childhood however that  enriches her spirit and independence. 
Ready to real life, with no one, Jane becomes a preceptor of Adèle in Thornfield Hall where she meet Mr Edward Rochester and both fall in love for each other. However, a terrible secret will separate them, and with her lessons of life, Miss Eyre will have now I chance to choose her own way. 
I fall in love with this story.  Every scene, every moment where so powerful that is impossible don’t like it, especially the end. Every characters suffer of bad choices but strangely it’s good that happened in that way, that’s way this is a strong book. 

Characters 
  • Jane Eyre 
  • Edward Rochester 
  • St. John Rivers 
  • Mrs. Reedn.
  • Bessie Lee 
  • Mr. Lloyd
  • Georgiana Reed
  • Eliza Reed
  • John Reed
  • Helen Burns
  • Mr. Brocklehurst
  • Maria Temple
  • Miss Scatcherd
  • Alice Fairfax 
  • Bertha Mason
  • Grace Poole
  • Adèle Varens 
  • Celine Varens 
  • Sophie
  • Richard Mason
  • Mr. Briggs
  • Blanche Ingram
  • Diana Rivers
  • Mary Rivers
  • Rosamond Oliver
  • John Eyre
  • Uncle Reed

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JaneAusten,

Lady Susan

03:59:00 Unknown 0 Comments

Hello dears,

I have read "Lady Susan" and I found a little different from other novels of Jane Austen. The book is a exchange of letters between all characters, so you have to read with very attention to understand and follow the story.  

Lady Susan uses flirtation and seduction to gain her way through life. She dates secretly with a married man and seduces singles men just for fun. 
She is so selfish that she is able to ruin the happiness of her daughter(Frederica Vernon) just to gets what she wants. She even calls her stupid girl.
Nobody likes her however she has one friend(Mrs. Johnson) but her husband doesn't approve their friendship, so they meet and talk privately.

I will not reveal nothing more about the story. I believe that it is enough to open your appetite to read this book.  

Main characters are:
  • Lady Susan Vernon
  • Frederica Vernon (Daughter of Lady Susan)
  • Catherine Vernon (Sister-in-law to Lady Susan)
  • Charles Vernon (Brother-in-law to Lady Susan)
  • Reginald De Courcy (Brother of Mrs. Vernon)
  • Lady De Courcy (Mother of Mrs. Vernon)
  • Alicia Johnson (Friend of Lady Susan)

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