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ehlnofay · 11 months ago

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sorry but apropos of nothing I am pondering pride and prejudice once again (regular occurence). saw someone describe elizabeth bennet as "middle class". if the internet inexplicably vanishes in the next few hours it's because I blew it up

#SHUT UP. SHUT UPPPPP. EVERYONE WILFULLY MISUNDERSTANDS THE SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS AT PLAY #AND THEY ARE IN SO MANY WAYS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE NARRATIVE!!!!#lizzy says it herself IN THE TEXT - darcy is a gentleman and she is a gentleman's daughter. so far they are equal #lizzy is LANDED GENTRY. she is NOT middle class #but she has middle class relations and the darcies have connections to aristocracy #it is not middle class woman and rich guy #it's the 1% and the 0.1%#obviously I have no beef with the regency middle class. if she was written that way it would be fine. but she isn't #and the class and status of it all is so instrumental to the story that refusing to understand it means you can't actually grasp it!!!#it's a fucking austen you can't come at it without trying to understand the class dynamics #you won't get any of the fucking story that way #and don't get me STARTED on how the movie handles it. my life's quest is to unmake that abomination until no memory of it remains

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