Jane Austen: Gender and morality
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2014
- Professor Kathryn Sutherland considers Jane Austen's portrayal of female characters and her harshly moralistic outlook. Filmed at Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton.
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These short clips r so much more insightful than an hour long lecture
a pleasure to listen your points
I don't know if I can agree that Austen had a harshly moralistic outlook for the time. What do you make of her treatment of Lydia? From our modern day view, her ending seems sad, but wasn't it quite revolutionary and progressive that she didn't end up dead or working as a prostitute?
I thought the same thing
It was due to Mr Darcy's intervention that she was prevented from these fates, and his mandate to Mr Wickham that he marry Lydia and thus preserve her from the public shame that would lead to ostracism. The moralism is where these two reckless individuals are made to finish what they had started, which is the same as taking responsibility for their actions and following it through. This is entirely the antithesis of what Western Society has now become, where there is no social expectation of personal responsibility, and hence the slide into moral decline.
Anne Elliot is wiser than Frederick Wentworth
Life it's only one should not be waste! I do not really believe in God which people believe based on books made by man. Nature oh wonderful we should reed in form feeling, listening and see how is perfect and beautiful, we call God! Men in particular women should preserve purity! A woman is like a bush of flowers full of life! life and the future on earth is based on women! So place keep as much you can your soul purity. If we don't we just become a grup of babuns! What kind of for example will give to the creator of the universe? How can we achieve the true of our assistance in the earth?