single man in possession of a good fortune: *exists*
mrs bennet (an empath) : he must be in want of a wife
single man in possession of a good fortune: *exists*
mrs bennet (an empath) : he must be in want of a wife
[Image ID: Ron Bass, the screenwriter from Netflix Persuasion, says he’s working on similar treatments for Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Meme below shows Lizzie Bennet from 2005 P&P reacting with dread to the pitiful flower Mr. Collins is offering her. Mr. Collins is labeled Ron Bass, Lizzie is labeled Austen fandom, and the flower is labeled screenplays for P&P and S&S. /.End ID]
kathony + unsolved sexual tension
Persuasion more than ANY other Austen is about YEARNING it's about SURPRESSED PASSION it's about SUBTLETY it's about waiting EIGHT YEARS ........ it's NOT about the funny ha ha I embarrass myself in front of the crush moments! It's just NOT! It's aggressively uncynical and it's SUCH a bad fit for a "I am winking at the camera"-adaptation!!!!!!!! Anne is sincere and sensitive and that's FINE and NICE and she does NOT need GIRLBOSSIFICATION okay
In terms of how Wentworth behaves towards Anne over the course of the novel, Persuasion is 99% “I’m so over you. Do you see how over you I am? I’m going to flirt with this girl I have absolutely no feelings for right in front of your face, just to show you how over you I am. I may just end up marrying her solely in order to make it clear that you are no longer on my mind”. And then segues immediately to “you pierce my soul. I have loved none but you.” There is no middle ground between these two states. At no point do they pause on friendship. I’m not even sure they have a conversation before Wentworth gives up the act. Never, in the history of literature, have two people more obviously been Not Friends.
Balance.
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