#Anne elliot

[lenoreamidala]

a man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! he ought not; he does not.

[firawren]

I want to read your paper @emmathompsonegot ! Forget the hand flex, this hand shot is the one

See @magstorrn gets the inherent eroticism in Regency repression and yearning!

’[Scholar Judy van Sickle Johnson] teases out themes of passion, sex, and anticipation in what she calls [Persuasion] Austen’s most physical book.

Persuasion’s physical reactions and interactions create a novel Johnson calls “surprisingly vibrant and seductive, though understated.” As in Austen’s other books, she uses the eyes and hands to create a world that is “physically stimulating, if not sexually suggestive”—a world of shy glances, chance meetings, and cramped spaces that throw its heroine and hero together again and again.

Johnson explores Austen’s use of blushes, beating hearts, physical gestures, and almost-contact—devices that weave a web of physicality around Anne and Wentworth. “Little circumstances—when eyes just miss, or when hands touch, whether by accident or intent—are interspersed among more dramatic scenes in which a man and woman feel acutely each other’s physical presence,” she writes. Johnson finds deep significance in these tiny gestures, and analyzes moments of physical intimacy between Elliot and her suitors.

For some readers, Persuasion is unsatisfying, a novel of stifled passions and unspoken desires. But Johnson finds pleasure and passion in its physicality, which she argues is the strongest in all of Austen’s novels. Though it is subtle, she writes, “Persuasion is more than a slight acknowledgment that men and women have physical needs and desires for closeness and contact.”’

-  ‘The Physical Pleasures of Jane Austen’s Persuasion’ by Erin Blakemore

[greenstripedcat]

Persuasion (1995)

— Anne? You want to marry Anne? Whatever for?

Source: https://british-cinema.livejournal.com/960771.html

[didanagy]

PERSUASION (2022)

dir. carrie cracknell

[fawnilu]

💌-The Letter.

@janeuary-month

[corporalicent]

PERSUASION (2007)

dir. Adrian Shergold

[queen-paladin]

I love you "boring" female characters. I love you ingenues. I love you female characters who aren't "modern" enough. I love you female characters who aren't "badass" enough. iI love you female characters who aren't "empowering" enough. I love you quiet female characters. I love you unappreciated female characters. I love you polite female characters. I love you female characters who "can't appeal to modern audiences." I love you frightened female characters. I love you female characters labeled as not complex just for being nice. I love you female characters who get criticism just for not being their tomboy or femme fatale counterpart. I love you silk hiding steel trope.

[womeninfictionandirl]

Anne Elliot by flominowa

[firawren]

Persuasion 1995 text posts

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[bethanydelleman]

Anne Elliot may be one of the more serious Austen heroines but remember when she's like, "Lady Russell is going to see Captain Wentworth and she's going to be so shocked and IN AWE that despite being in the navy all those years, he's still super hot."

She could thoroughly comprehend the sort of fascination he must possess over Lady Russell’s mind, the difficulty it must be for her to withdraw her eyes, the astonishment she must be feeling that eight or nine years should have passed over him, and in foreign climes and in active service too, without robbing him of one personal grace! (Ch 29)

That totally happened

[smolfangirl]

We as a reader see Anne's and Captain Wentworth's love story play out, but imagine the whole thing from the perspective of Uppercross.

Anne is at Uppercross for two months

In these two months, they're barely interacting

You have no idea about the child incident, and you see nothing suspicious in the carriage one

They're barely talking to each other at best, he's colder to her than anyone else at worst (if you even notice)

They acknowledge to have known each other in the year six "a little". All of their behavior seems to confirm how irrelevant this acquaintance was

Everyone but Mary expects him to marry Louisa

After the fall, he disappears to his brother

Next thing you hear is that he's going to Bath

When you travel to Bath as well, you see Anne and Captain Wentworth together again

There's no suspicious behavior here, either

When Anne feels unwell after The Letter (that you don't know about, although it happened right in front of your salad), Charles walks her home, hands her off to Captain Wentworth to go see a gun, and suddenly they're engaged

????????

So much of Persuasion is dependent on knowing about their history together, of knowing each other in a way no one else does. And so if you missed all that, their engagement takes you by complete surprise, while it's only a natural conclusion to us as the knowing reader

[incognita-soul]

I've spent all afternoon thinking about the line from Wentworth's letter "you sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others" and about how that really is the most important part of the letter. Yes "you pierce my soul" and "I have loved none but you" and "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago" are all more swoon-worthy. But the whole point of Persuasion is how Anne suffers because none of her friends or family acknowledge her needs or anything she says. She is made small by everyone around her. She is persuadable because she has been stripped of her agency; not by the circumstances of her life, but because the people in her life have talked over and down to her so much that she has stopped resisting. She knows that she won't be heard, so she just stops speaking. But then Wentworth hears her voice! He hears her, sees her, and he loves her for who she is, not what he wants her to be. I think Jane Austen knew exactly what she was doing by including that line. It's so subtle in such a purposeful way.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[cottagecore-raccoon]

The more I think about it, the more I think that Persuasion has my favorite premise of all of Jane Austen's novels

Anne Elliot as a character speaks to my soul. She feels tremendous guilt for a decision she made eight years ago. Her life is lonely, as she doesn't really have anyone she can truly confide in despite being surrounded by people. So she swallows her pain, the yearning she feels deep in her soul, and vows that if nothing else at least she'll be helpful.

And of course she is reunited with Frederick Wentworth (the one that got away) who seems to hate her now, and she just keeps going. She keeps being kind and supporting her loved ones while slowly carving out a life for herself. There's something about her classic heroism that just feels so attainable. I don't have Elizabeth Bennett's wit, or Jane Bennett's unwavering belief in the goodness of everyone, or even Elinor's constant composure. But I can be like Anne and just keep moving forward attempting to be helpful

Of course it all works out in the end, and Anne is finally surrounded by people who truly appreciate her, even if she had to wait an extra eight years. Others have observed the fairy tale quality of the ending, and perhaps that's why it speaks to me. The idea that if you just keep doing your best and being kind, you'll eventually find happiness

[besotted-with-austen]

Anne Elliot: *endures silently the man she has loved for years courting a younger woman in front of her and the knowledge of a possible engagement*

Frederick Wentworth: *immediately sulks and escapes the sight of the woman he has loved for years being courted by a more respectable man after he hears rumours about a possible engagement*

[didanagy]

PERSUASION (2007)

dir. adrian shergold

[fawnilu]

Oh to be jealous and in love in Bath💕

@janeuary-month