#jane austen characters

[firawren]

My recent find of the delightful @can-they-assemble-ikea-furniture blog inspired me to make another Jane Austen crack poll.

Reblog and share in the tags which piece they're assembling, and if they get the meatballs, hotdog, or soft serve before they leave the store.

Edit: I made a poll for who is the worst at it too.

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

Colin or Matthew ? 😀

[pemberly1813]

[janefrigginausten]

[melslemonade2]

This meme draws a parallel between the character of Marianne from Sense and Sensibility and Elle Woods from Legally Blonde. The meme showcases Elle Woods in bed after being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, seemingly throwing something at a portrait of Willoughby.

This meme draws a perfect comparison between the reactions of both girls to their lovers, and being ignored/dumped. Having such a strong attachment to their former lovers, Marianne and Elle see their lives come crashing down after they are rejected. It showcases much about the characters specifically, along with social constructs at the time. They specifically share the character traits of sensibility, attachment, and a general a lack of self-love (initially, at least for Elle Woods). It causes them to both be smitten by lackluster men, that end up breaking their hearts and betraying them in various ways. It’s interesting that the role of women in relationships seems similar in this case. Austen is a traditionalist and writes about women in the 1700s. Legally Blonde is a movie from the 21st century, featuring modern constructs that represent progress and history. It’s interesting that such a stark and obvious parallel can be drawn with a modern, 21st century breakup scene. Although men and women both have equal reactions to relationships, this meme specifically showcases the role of women in this case and is interesting to see in the context of both, very different works.  

[infjpaladin]

[bewitchingomen]

emma woodhouse is the funniest jane austen heroine solely because she spends 95% of her precious free time shipping her friends and trying to set them up and being convinced she is the world's greatest matchmaker and talking about how great it will be once her bestie has her perfect true love and then when she's asked if she's considering getting married anytime soon she's like pfffft GOD no why the FUCK would i do that

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

pride and prejudice enjoyers when the main characters make choices based on both their pride and their prejudice

[laurenillustrated]

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

Pride and Prejudice illustration based on the book.

[firawren]

I asked you which Jane Austen character would be the best at assembling IKEA furniture, so now I must know...

Don't you dare yell at me for not including XYZ Character—do you know how impossible it is to pick only 11 Austen characters who suck at assembling IKEA furniture? There are way too many of them! So so many Austen characters would be destroyed even by a Lack table!

Reblog and share in the tags how the IKEA disaster goes down for the character you picked.

[hexgirllovesyou]

Mr Darcy is my delusional husband and is gonna remain like that... sorry

I love you. Most ardently.

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

[janefrigginausten]

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

- I'm very fond of walking 😊

- Yes !🥺... Yes...I know...🥺

“It’s nice when someone remembers small details about you.”

— Unknown

[melslemonade2]

This graphic features Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, and Mr. Wickam in a slightly humorous and sassy account of each of their character types and personalities. The character descriptions expose the most prominent aspects of their characters, and although it primarily focuses on the characters from Pride and Prejudice, these characters translate across many works of Jane Austen and the countless adaptations of her works. These are not limited to Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. This exposes much about Austen and her writing style, in the way the plot and characters often remain the same while incorporating slight adjustments to provide diversity in writing. 

This meme showcases several prominent character tropes that Jane Austen incorporates and features in her novels, that also show up repeatedly in adaptations of Jane Austen’s work – each of these character types show up in her novels with slight adjustments, however, the basic character model remains the same. This remains in adaptations like Longbourn, where similar characters exist but are modified to best fit the adaptation and adjusted plotline. We see similar character traits and physical similarities between characters; however, adaptations provide alternate plot structures and some differences in character. Regardless, this incorporation showcases the strength of these character tropes that Jane Austen has created and masterfully implemented in each of her novels. 

[aquitainequeen]

I've always liked the establishing character moments in the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice; e.g. Bingley is jolly and friendly but tends to be a little too reliant on Darcy's advice and approval; Darcy's rich and snobbish while also a good friend to Bingley; Elizabeth is cheerful and independent; Mr. Bennet is scholarly and clearly isn't that fond of his wife and younger daughters, but obviously loves Elizabeth, etc.

But I've only just now realised that Georgiana Darcy has three such moments.

The first is when Caroline is telling Jane via letter that the Bingleys are going to stay in London for a while, and that she's hoping that her brother will marry Georgiana. We've heard her mentioned before by Darcy, Caroline and Wickham; now we see her in person for the first time, standing arm in arm with her brother before confidently going to meet Bingley:

This is a really interesting moment, because it could be what happened in reality - but that's highly doubtful; Georgiana is far too confident here compared with what we see later in the story and it's very unlikely she'd be interested in a new suitor after what happened so recently with Wickham. Thus it's either Caroline playing up their meeting in her own mind, anticipating their courtship and marriage, or it's Elizabeth picturing what happened, fuelled by her own resentment of how Wickham was supposedly treated by the proud, selfish, unfeeling Darcys. So the first time we see Georgiana is deeply influenced by what two other very biased characters think they see.

The next moment is here:

This time around Georgiana doesn't say a word or take the initiative; it's Wickham who takes her hand to kiss it, flirts excessively with her without saying a word, and strides off while she looks after him longingly, the beginnings of her smile fading as Darcy's handwriting takes over the screen. This is a rather biased moment as well; it's Darcy's flashback and he wasn't here for this bit, so he'd inevitably picture Georgiana as a sweet innocent completely swept off her feet by the charming man he so despises - but Darcy also knows his sister far better than Caroline and Elizabeth do, and she confesses everything to him once he discovers them at Ramsgate, so this is very likely how it went down in real life. And thus we get that much closer to the real Georgiana.

Finally, at the beginning of the fifth episode, we meet Georgiana in the flesh,

waiting nervously to be introduced,

smiling as soon as Darcy steps aside,

so nervous but so very pleased to meet Elizabeth,

hesistant and selfconcious but very interested in learning more about Elizabeth, coming further out of her protective shell, full of love and praise for her brother, earnestly saying that she should have liked to have had a sister. And Elizabeth, like the audience, is charmed by the real Georgiana.