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elisaenglish · 8 months

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He's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

#a room with a view #helena bonham carter #lucy honeychurch #julian sands #george emerson #patterns of distraction #all eternal things #love in a time of...#a murmur of fire #feel you on the inside #beauty's where you find it #perfect now #all i need #literary sensibilities #1985 #elisa english #elisaenglish

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firawren · 3 months

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I've been thinking about the fact that some readers of Sense and Sensibility don't believe Willoughby truly loved Marianne, even though everyone in the book believes it and the narrator makes it clear how much he cared for her, at the end. And I think this reading of him takes away from one of the messages of the book, which is that love is not enough.

Willoughby loves Marianne, but that's not enough to stop him from hurting her, it's not enough to make him give up his cushy lifestyle and marry her, and it wouldn't have been enough to keep him happy with her long-term. Marianne loves Willoughby, but it wouldn't have been enough for her to be happy with him long-term either.

Edward loves Elinor, but that's not a good enough reason to break his promise to Lucy, because integrity and honor and responsibility are just as important to him. Brandon loves Marianne, but that's not reason enough to court her, because he knows her feelings lie elsewhere and she doesn't respect and esteem him yet.

Love is important to all these characters, and is a vital part in making the marriages that they ultimately end up in strong and happy, but it's not the only thing that makes them work.

Of course, Sense and Sensibility is hardly the only Austen novel to make the point that you need more than love or romance or passion to make a relationship work. But I think it's interesting how we get to see this play out in the villain of the novel. Willoughby does some truly horrific things, but his character shows that even really bad guys are capable of feeling love and guilt and remorse. But none of these feelings are ultimately strong enough to change him. Because love is not enough.

#sense and sensibility #jane austen #literary analysis #love #mr willoughby #marianne dashwood

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stvrmaker · 19 days

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Hello, Jane Austen book stack for your viewing pleasure 💖 In publication order, and I based the designs off of first editions and early editions that I could find pictures of!

#jane austen #jane austen books #pride and prejudice #pride and predjudice 2005 #emma #sense and sensibility #mansfield park #persuasion #persuasion jane austen #northanger abbey #literature #literary quotes #myart #books #book art

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elysianmuses · 1 year

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“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

- Jane Austen

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jadesdumbstuff · 1 year

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#meirl #literary #literature #jane austen #fanfiction #emily bronte #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #bookworm #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility

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frizzyanya · 2 months

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People on the internet will get mad about

a n y t h i n g

I just saw someone complaining that the costumes in the new Hallmark Sense & Sensibility were not historically accurate and getting mad about it

Like guys

It's fine. They're not going for literal interpretation here, they're going for beautiful and exciting like what Bridgerton did. Let them do it. (As long as they don't destroy the story like Bridgerton S2 did, but that's irrelevant to this post.)

And for the record, I think it's going to be good because the part that they got SO RIGHT is that Marianne and Elinor's expressions are so on brand for their characters. The actresses nailed it and I believe both of them in their roles.

#sense and sensibility #sense & sensibility #hallmark #bridgerton s2 was THE GREATEST CHARACTER ASSASSINATION IN THE HISTORY OF LITERARY ADAPTATIONS #but that's not the point here #i just got distracted because i get so mad at it

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gingerblood · 2 months

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“Pathetic? To die for love? What could be more glorious?”

~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

#booklr #books #books & libraries #english literature #literary quotes #literature #jane austen quotes #jane austen #sense and sensibility #pride and prejudice #classic literature

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hell-heron · 29 days

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GRRM did us all so wrong not telling us when Sansa finds out Bran and Rickon died tbh :/

#is it on her mind on the blackwater? and if it isnt. is she praying for literally everyone she ever met besides theon all the same? 😭#maybe she knows only about the betrayal and not about the deaths tbf but that should be on her mind anyway i feel #i hate this stuff ahrjdhdh im always like oh maybe the haters are right maybe sansa really is there just to show us how dumb and shallow #everything she accomplishes is compared to arya maybe that IS a sensible literary device to use #op

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nortonliterature · 1 year

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In honor of Jane Austen's birthday today, what's your most controversial opinion about her books? Do you hate Mr. Darcy? Is there a movie that's better than the book? Let the people hear it!!

#Jane Austen #Women writers #literary birthday #today in literary history #happy birthday #British Literature #English literature #Brit Lit #English Lit #English majors #women in literature #Persuasion #Northanger Abbey #Emma #Mansfield Park #Pride and Prejudice #Sense and Sensibility

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darktwistdchaos-blog · 9 months

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Edward Gorey (1925-2000)

American artist Edward Gorey was a writer, costume designer, and illustrator. He's known for his style of drawing, depicting dark Victorian characters and scenes. He primarily created children’s books, even though he didn’t feel emotional attachments to children. Which I find kinda odd and changes the way I look at his art. Gorey also experimented with more serious concepts through his surrealist books. His work has been classified as gothic.

These books and illustrations hold a dear place in my heart. I knew Gorey before I knew Tim Burton and he sparked my love of dark illustration. Also his humor was kinda out there and usually dark. I feel like his favorite character to illustrate was a child in horrific circumstances. He was one of a kind!

#art #artwork #illistration #illistrator #edward gorey #victorian #victorian era #childrens books #childrens illustration #dark art #dark aesthetic #surealism #gothic #gothic aesthetic #gothic literature #arch humor #gothic sensibility #literary nonsense

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elisaenglish · 21 days

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Forever deep will I endart mine eye, for looking liking you...

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firawren · 2 years

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Darcy is not a grump

Darcy gets a bad rap as being glum and cranky, and while he does certainly have those moments, and he has a serious personality overall, he actually smiles a lot in the book, and all but one of those times are before his "transformation" from a dick to a nice guy!

So who is actually the most glum Austen hero? I searched the online texts of each of the six novels to find out, then made this chart:

Things I found interesting in my research:

Darcy is actually more cheerful than most Austen heroes!

Darcy is described as expressing cheer twice as much as Bingley. In fact, Bingley is described as explicitly smiling zero times!

Knightley, who I always think of as being pretty serious, is actually the second most cheerful guy out of the whole lot

Edmund, who deserves to be sad because he sucks, is far and away the happiest hero, damn it

Only Bingley, Henry, Knightley, and Edmund laugh

Now obviously, the length of each book and the amount of time each character appears greatly affects this. For instance, Bingley gets far less page-time than Darcy, so it makes sense that we hear about his emotions far less—of course I am not suggesting that Bingley's temperament is actually more serious than Darcy's. I'm also certain that Henry Tilney would have won out over Edmund as the most cheerful hero if Northanger Abbey was as long as Mansfield Park is; NA is only about 77k words, while MP is twice as long at 159k words. Plus, MP spends a lot more time in the man's POV than most of the novels do. If I was a statistician, I would find a way to adjust for these factors, but even I am not that nerdy.

My full notes are under the cut, if you're a complete Janeite nerd like me and want to dig into my non-scientific data.

Edward: 1 smile, 1 description of surroundings that "exceedingly pleased him", 1 "heard with pleasure", 2 cheerful; total 5

Bingley: 0 smiles!!!, 1 "expression of half-laughing alarm," 1 laugh, 1 pleased, 1 "expressed great pleasure" but might be polite figure of speech, 1 "looking both pleased and embarrassed," 1 "ease and cheerfulness", 1 "was all grateful pleasure" but not sure if accurate/sincere; total 6

Wentworth: 2 smiles, 1 "little smile," 1 "half smiling," 1 "almost a smile," 1 "artificial" smile, 1 "smiles reined in" which I think applies to both W and Anne, 1 assumed laughing as part of a group, 1 joined a walk with pleasure; total 7

Brandon: 1 "faint smile," 1 "tried to smile", part of 1 "every body laugh", 1 pleased, 1 received civilities with pleasure, 1 pleasure "will be very great", 1 "his open pleasure in meeting her", 1 "engaged with pleasure", 2 cheerful; total 8

Darcy: 8 smiles, 1 "a sort of smile," 1 "smile of affected incredulity" when E's talking about Wickham during the proposal, 1 "expression of heartfelt delight", 1 "delighted with their engagement", 1 meditating with pleasure on fine eyes, 1 thinking cheerfully; total 13

Henry: 8 smiles, 1 "endeavouring not to smile," 1 "set smile" but he's trying to be funny, part of 1 "everybody smiled", 1 laugh, 1 "you are laughing" said by C directed at H but the narrator doesn't say he's laughing or smiling but he certainly is teasing, part of 1 group laugh, 2 times being amused, 2 delighted with C, 1 "pleasure of finding nothing to detain me" but unsure if polite figure of speech: total 19

Knightley: 14 smiles, 1 "reproachful smile," 1 "trying not to smile and succeeded without difficulty," 1 "she forced him to smile," 1 "trying not to smile," 1 laugh, 2 pleased, 1 amused, 1 feeling of "delightful assurance", 1 pleasure, 1 "pleasure always" re: being with Jane, 1 "chat of pleasure", 1 cheerful: total 23

Edmund: 10 smiles, 1 "you may smile" said by Mary directed at E, 1 "serious smile," 1 smile by "the three others" but I can't tell if E is one of those three, 1 "smile that did not sit easy," 1 smile that seems to be from E but might be from F, part of 1 group laugh but F thinks E is struggling to be cheerful but is successful, part of 1 group laugh off-page, 1 laugh, 1 pleased, 1 amused, 2 delighted, 1 "delightful happiness", 4 pleasure, part of 2 group pleasure, part of 3 cheerful groups, 3 cheerful: total 32

I counted every mention of a smile, laugh, or looking amused or pleased, or having delight or pleasure, or being cheerful. If there was a mention of everybody or a group smiling or laughing, and the guy was part of the group, I counted it. "Faint smiles" and the like are counted, as are instances where the guy is trying to not smile, but I did not count any time the narrator said the guy tried to smile, forced a smile, laughed bitterly, etc.—only genuine cheer, however small, counts! I also did not count any instance of the guy expressing "his pleasure" when it was clear it was just a polite figure of speech.

Searched for: smile/ing, laugh, amuse, pleased, pleasure, delight, cheerful, happy countenance, happy face, happy look, happy expression, look of happiness, expression of happiness

Did not search: gay, gaiety, joy, felicity, merry, merriment, or happy/happiness without modifiers, because this already took way too many hours (yes, hours) as it was!