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boleynecklace · 6 months

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I may not begin, lest I should not make an end, to tell of that I have received, but am ashamed that I have deserved so little; only I offer you a most faithful and loyal heart. God grant me no longer breath than it be most unspotted to you. ⎯ Robert Dudley to Elizabeth I, 1571.

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filmjunky-99 · 2 months

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e l i z a b e t h i, 2005 📺 dir. tom hooper

#miniseries #hbo #Elizabeth i #elizabeth i 2005 #tom hooper #helen mirren #jeremy irons #hugh dancy #Patrick Malahide #ian mcdiarmid #Barbara Flynn #Queen Elizabeth I #Earl of Leicester #Earl of Essex #Sir Francis Walsingham #Lord Burghley #Mary Queen of Scots

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runin-reads · 6 months

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An analysis of Elizabeth and Essex’s relationship in Elizabeth I (2005)

These are just my thoughts as someone who watched the series on a whim, so don’t expect anything too sophisticated.

Episode 2 focuses on the repercussions of Elizabeth and Essex’s relationship. It’s set after Leicester’s death in episode 1. As such there’s a clear contrast between her respective relationships between the two men, but I’ll mainly focus on hers with Essex. Unlike Leicester who is far closer to Elizabeth’s age, Essex is around 30 years younger her junior. There’s an overt emphasis on this that even Elizabeth points out when she calls him a “pretty youth” and throughout episode 2 she repeatedly calls him “boy”. There are many moments where Elizabeth brings attention to their age gap. When Essex returns from Lisbon, she says “Do I seem old to you?” followed by “Spare me you are old only in years” which clearly echoes a similar conversation she had with Leicester in episode 1. It seems that her age is a source of insecurity. She seems disbelieved when she then says “you have every appearance of sincerity.” After Essex’s expedition in Cadiz, she asks him if he’s surprised that an old woman could have such “desires of the flesh.” This has led me to a few conclusions:

She’s distrustful of his true intentions — does he love her or does he love the crown i.e. the power she holds and can promise him in return?

She’s aware that their relationship is dependent on physicality. Due to their age gap she is very clearly more wise and tactful. This contrasts her and Leicester, who was far more her intellectual equal.

Indeed, during the second half of episode 2 there’s a clear breaking of trust between Elizabeth and Essex, marked by the reveal that Lady Frances is pregnant with Essex’s child. This is a crucial point as it forces Elizabeth to acknowledge Essex’s faults when, in the past, she had forgiven him instantly. Elizabeth is betrayed, yet her affair with Essex continues even after he marries Frances.

Yet as time passes so does the distance between them. Before Essex used to profess his love for Elizabeth with ease and sincerity, but the more he goes to war the more self-serving he becomes. He goes as far as to attempt to draw his sword on Elizabeth when she strikes him during a council meeting. Then, there’s his infamous coup against her government, leading to his eventual execution.

These events beg the question of: was he truly sincere in his love for Elizabeth? Did she truly love him, or was he just a way to fill the gap left behind by Leicester’s death? My answer for these questions is both yes and no. At first he seemingly idolises her and the power she holds. She’s the Queen of England and 30 years his senior — it’s no surprise he all but puts her on a pedestal. I believe that before their official introductions to the other, he most likely idolised her from afar. Likewise, she loves what he represents: the sincerity that comes with reckless youth, a naive face in a room full of jaded, older men. He must’ve been a breath of fresh air in comparison to those she’s typically surrounded by. However I do think they loved each other sincerely. Right before he gets executed, he professes her love for her once more:

“I do solemnly swear that the four quarters of my body are hers, were always hers, and I do yield them up to her with a glad heart… her whom I swear I did always love with all my heart.”

They loved each other. They loved what the other represented. They loved how flattered the other made them feel. I don’t think it’s typical a case of ‘right person wrong time.’ They were both born into immense power and wealth, a stroke of luck inaccessible to the majority. These circumstances were beyond their control, yet the actions they committed against each other were products of individual agency, and on Elizabeth’s part, an allegiance to duty: Essex’s rebellion against her regime, Elizabeth’s decision to put him on trial, to name a few.

He yearned for her recognition, wealth and authority. She was enamoured by his youthful naivety. Essex felt stifled by her power over him. Elizabeth felt betrayed by his growing arrogance his willingness to act beyond what she deemed acceptable. That, I think, is the crux of why everything went wrong between them.

#rin.analysis #Elizabeth I 2005 #hugh dancy #helen mirren #earl of Essex

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filmjunky2-99 · 2 years

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e l i z a b e t h i, 2005 📺 dir. Tom Hooper

#miniseries #Elizabeth i #Elizabeth i 2005 #Elizabeth i hbo #tom hooper #helen mirren #jeremy irons #Patrick Malahide #Barbara Flynn #ian mcdiarmid #hbo

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zipadeea · 1 year

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One of my favorite things about Pride and Prejudice is the Bennet family’s complete cluelessness about Darcy and Elizabeth. Like, if this were a tv show about the Bennets, Darcy and Elizabeth are like, the D storyline. The whole family is trying to get Jane and Bingley together, the regiment is stationed in Meryton, Mr. Collins is taking the house, Lydia and Wickham are obviously the climax, these people have a lot going on. And then, once the regiment has left and Jane and Lydia and Mr. Collins are married and everything seems resolved: plot twist! They’ve got random nobility at the door in the middle of the night telling the know-it-all sister who has been home on and off through the year not to marry the rando rich guy they all hate simply because they’re family and loyal to each other damnit and he called the know-it-all sister ugly once.

And then, of course, they all find out Lizzy and Darcy are actually very in love and literally all of the good things that have happened to them this year are a direct consequence of Darcy loving Lizzy lolol.

#pride and prejudice #i am once again watching 2005 pride and prejudice #mr darcy #Elizabeth Bennet #jane austen #it's just so good

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yeahthatsinteresting · 1 year

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SKY HIGH (2005)

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cinemagal · 1 year

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21 FILMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

#filmgifs #moviegifs #userfilm #filmedit #pride & prejudice #pride and prejudice 2005 #keira knightley #matthew macfadyen #21films #jane austen #2000s #romance #i cried whilst making this #this film is perfect #joe wright #chatsworth #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy

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hrhprincedickheads · 7 months

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I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

#fun fact pride & prejudice 2005 is one of my fav films ever so i had to #alex x henry #henry x alex #firstprince #red white and royal blue #rwrb #my stuff #also the v&a scene i used gives me so many Elizabeth looking at Mr darcy's statues vibes

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lizormianillustration · 2 years

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one word from you will silence me forever

#pride and prejudice #drawing #illustration #art #illustrators on tumblr #design #artists on tumblr #pride and prejudice 2005 #elizabeth bennet #graphic design #i am aware i got the quote wrong you do not need to tell me #pinterest should not have been my main source

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shinehalley · 2 months

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I think between the most common misinterpretations of Pride and Prejudice that irritates me the most i can say the one at the top is when they say that the story is about a woman fixing a complicated guy and this becomes references in terrible romances. I've heard this so many times and as a person who grew up with the 2005 film and reads the book at least once a year I need to get it off my chest.

Starting off, Darcy is not a "complicated man". He's not a bad guy who takes out his traumas on other people, he's not a guy who's waiting to be saved by a woman who "silences his demons" and even less a guy who mistreats the women he's with. Darcy is actually a rich man with rude manners and some class prejudices. The point is that Darcy is a man with moral convictions and feelings that make him a good man despite these aspects. His rude manners are a reflection of his class prejudice, but they do not dictate how he treats people for whom he has feelings of affection. The way he would be able to move the world for those he cares about and seek the closest thing to what is considered justice in the temporal context of the story reinforces the goodness of his character. This is even more evident in the comparison that is made between him and Wickeham, where one is unpleasant but good and the other is pleasant but a cheat.

And what Elizabeth does is far from correcting him. Darcy doesn't realize how his class prejudice affects the way he communicates with people and the view he has of himself because everyone always justifies his arrogance as fair because of his wealth. So he believes that Elizabeth admires him when, in reality, she despises him for these characteristics. And what she does is just say it to his face, something no one has done before, and that's it. This is Elizabeth's contribution to any development of Darcy, to say how arrogant and prejudiced he is. It is Darcy himself who reflects on her words and realizes that she is right and that he is not being as fair as he thought he was. He realizes his own prejudice and realizes his own arrogance and of his own free will decides to change because he wants to be a better and more pleasant person.

It could be said that it was fate that put him and Elizabeth in each other's path and made her realize, now with more pleasant manners without prejudices obscuring her actions, what a good man Darcy is and become enchanted by him. But if they hadn't met again, Darcy would still take on this challenge of re-educating himself and being a better person and Elizabeth would still continue to think of him as an arrogant man in whom she feels no interest.

The other issue is that Elizabeth is not perfect. She has her own prejudices that are overcome throughout the book thanks to her coexistence with Darcy and not because of Darcy. The fact that she lives with both Darcy and Wickeham at the same time is what makes her understand how unfair she was in her first impression and how foolish she was in being guided by that to define the characters of both. Kindness and amability are not synonymous with integrity and she learns this the hard way. It's a lesson that if she hadn't learned through her time with Darcy, she would have learned it in some other way because life has things like that.

Finally, they were essential in each other's lives because of the teachings they left to reflect on their actions in relation to the world and not because they depend on each other. Both are confronted with their prejudices and realize that they were not fair and try to change for better people regardless of whether they are together or not. Their meeting after realizing their errors in judgment is purely accidental. They don't change for each other, they change for themselves, because they realize how proud they were and want to be more fair, and after that they end up being placed back in each other's lives by chance. That's what makes them such an interesting couple and makes us wish we had what they have.

Reducing the story of Darcy and Elizabeth to an asshole man who is fixed up by a woman is a mistake so grotesque that it is noticeable that it could only have been said by a person who has never seen the story or seen it with their ass.

#This is long but I needed to talk about #because I'm tired of people putting fake hoods on them #the way Darcy and Elizabeth are not made for each other but become made for each other unintentionally is so superior to anything else #they just want to be decent people who recognize their mistakes and end up falling in love #how can this be fixing anyone???#I just love them so much and seeing them put on an asshole look on Darcy and a heroine look on Elizabeth is irritating #as if Lizzy Bennet had the patience to fix a man #pride and prejudice #pride and predjudice 2005 #fitzwilliam darcy #mr darcy #elizabeth bennet #lizzy bennet

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therealelizabethbennet · 6 months

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#jane austen #elizabeth bennet #pride and prejudice #mr. darcy #love #period drama #pride & prejudice #pride & prejudice 2005 #I do not have the talent of conversingeasily with people I have never met #pemberley #otp #mrs.darcy

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boleynecklace · 6 months

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Becoming Elizabeth (2022) Elizabeth (1998) Elizabeth I (2005)

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filmjunky-99 · 2 months

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e l i z a b e t h i, 2005 📺 dir. tom hooper

#miniseries #hbo #Elizabeth i #elizabeth i 2005 #tom hooper #helen mirren #Queen Elizabeth I

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iknowplaces-tv · 8 months

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Im setting off, but not without my muse...

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moon-mirage · 2 months

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"Till this moment I never knew myself."

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petratherrock · 2 months

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@bethanydelleman

I've seen this screenshot many times and it still cracks me up 😂

Altho in my personal view I think Mr. Darcy may have friends plural, he's just not the outgoing and approachable type. He has Bingley, and possibly more........? Maybe? He possibly went to school too right

This post does make me think of Lizzie and Darcy's relationship being not only romantic but also they're each other's friends. It's nice. I don't think a romantic dynamic alone works for their relationship, I think they're also friends

Mr. Collins on the other hand.......That final reblog, i can't

#pride and prejudice 2005 #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #mr collins #charlotte lucas #I'm sorry to the op i found your ss on pinterest #jane austen

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