the world would be far better if it went like all Jane Austen novels. Every girl finds heartbreak in the wrong man, a Mr. Wickam, or perhaps a Mr. Crawford, God forbid even a Mr. Willoughby, but then continues on to find some man in the Clergy like Edward Ferrars, or Edmund Bertram, or a rich Mr. Darcy, or Mr. Knightly. and they go off into the sunset without a care in the world. but alas, it cannot work that way. we only get half the tale if any in this world. but that is probably all our own faults.
you may wonder at my talking so much about Jane Austen but it is all because i have been watching each of the movies, well most of them, in the form of BBC or some other such way. i have not seen Emma, Persuasion, or all of Northanger Abbey(but i do not wish to see the last one). it makes me laugh to see how much the author loves clergy men, just think of it...
Pride and Prejudice-Wickam says he wants to be one and would were it not for Darcy and Lizzy starts to fall for him.
Mansfield Park-Fanny falls in love with Edmund and he is bound to be a clergyman since he is not the eldest son
Sense and Sensibility-Edward Ferrars falls in love with Elenor and they end up getting hitched even though he is to become a clergyman.
Northanger Abbey-Henry gets Catherine in the end to love him and all seeing as he is a clergyman
Emma-George is not a clergyman but he is a landowner so he is not a loathsome business man or anything like that, and he gets Emma
Persuasion-a naval officer which means that he can marry people which is practically a clergyman...well maybe not but close enough
so 4 out of 6 men in 6 books are clergymen. i love it :D and all of the heroines are portrayed as not of their time, you know like they are so very different from the people of that time. i love how Austen just separates her characters from everyone else like that. so easily and so obviously. they can never be similar to anyone else but you can easily see the things that they have in common with each other. all being avid book worms :D
i have decided that i will read straight through the book hope bought me that contains 4 out of 6 of Jane Austen's books (excluding Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey) after i have completed my Anne of Green Gables Series, which i happen to love at the moment even if i am a little shocked at the thought of Anne and Gilbert's first child dieing the same day she is born, i don't care if it makes sense so that Anne and Leslie can be close friends with no wall, i hate to see Anne suffer so. but it doesn't matter cause i all ready know that they have 6 kids in the end :D can't wait to read about Anne and Gilbert as parents, that'll be interesting. but for now i must be off for a woman is yelling for me to be off :D
Lara
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i love jane austen. i read her books when i'm in the mood for "soul food" =)
emma is my absolute favorite, but i also love pride and prejudice. definitely see the Emma starring gweneth paltrow. it's one of my favorite movies.
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