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Doodled my sister in her natural habitat.

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Reading Goals for July :

- Read something Jane Austen (has already been accomplished)(I would like to fit Emma too this month, nut I'm not too pressed about it)

- Finish The hunger games ( I'm half into book two, so this is something I'm 100% sure I'm gonna accomplish )

- Start the mortal instruments series.

- Read something Shakespeare (preferably Hamlet)

- Very specific but I'd like to read to kill a mockingbird, because I'm just very intrigued by it.

- Low on the list, but I'd like to get back on historical fiction. I'm in a big YA mood right now, so I might combine YA X historical fiction and read "these violent delights".

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Dün gece geç saatlere kadar kitap okudum. İlk defa bi kitapta evlenme teklifi edilen bi sahneyi okudum.Duygusallaştım,beni tanıyanlar çokça ağladığımı da anlamıştır tabi... 🤍

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I think the movies did the best they could do, but inevitably did miss a huge chunk of the characterization, because Katniss thinks way more than she speaks. The way you perceive the characters around her (not even just her) changes if you haven't read the books at all, because Katniss thinking, whether unreliable or not, colours them in ways the film's cannot capture.

Peeta: *Obviously crying because his being taken to his possible death at the arena, and being stripped away from his home*

Katniss: THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS A MASTERMIND, HIS MAIN STRATEGY TO WIN

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Tonight, let’s pray for all mothers.

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Mrs Bennet: I hate Mr Collins! Oh, how horrid he is, he wants to snatch our home from us! I will never like him-

William Collins: I want to choose my life companion among your daughters!

Mrs Bennet: my dear Mr Collins! How wonderful you are! I am so sorry that I only have three daughters to offer you, but the eldest is basically with one foot on the parvis of the church, if you catch my drift! Do not be shy, pick anyone you like!

~sometime later~

Mrs Bennet, in bed: my poor, precious Lydia! That scoundrel Wickham! Your father will have to duel him and he will lose and die and Mr Collins and Charlotte will come and they will throw us on the street and we will die! Why us! Whyyyy?!

Elizabeth Bennet: Mother, Wickham and Lydia got married!

Mrs Bennet, miraculously healthy again: married! My precious Lydia married! My youngest was the first to get married! This is the best day of my life! I need to be congratulated for my good fortune! Let us talk to the servants, to the neighbours! Let us go to Meryton!

~even later~

Mrs Bennet: if I think about Mr Bingley…! No, I will not say what I think, for Jane’s sake! But if I could-

Kitty Bennet: Mamma, someone is coming! Hey, it is Mr Bingley! …And that other rude man!

Mrs Bennet: Mr Bingley is back! Mr Bennet-!

Mr Bennet: *lazily* do not “Mr Bennet me”, I will not go to him. If he wants to come, he will come.

Mrs Bennet: (little pause) …I see. Fine. We will be prepared. We need to be prepared, of course. Get the best cutlery we have, of course. Try to deep clean the house in three seconds, right?Jane, be prettier, you have to glow. We must be ready for anything.

Elizabeth Bennet: *slightly scared* for what?

Mrs Bennet: a proposal, Lizzy, a proposal! That’s everything!

~later later~

Mrs Bennet: why does that terrible Mr Darcy keep coming back? Can he not leave his friend’s side for a minute? Does he think he is gracing us with his presence? As I have been saying since the first time, he is the worst man I have ever had the displeasure to meet!

Elizabeth Bennet: Mother, I need to say something to you, it is very important-Mr Darcy asked for my hand, and I accepted him.

Mrs Bennet:

Elizabeth Bennet: *worried* Mom? Are you okay-

Mrs Bennet: I was so wrong, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE! MR DARCY, MY SON-IN-LAW! Ooooh, Lady Lucas will be so jealous! My dear, precious Lizzy, I am so proud! Tell me, when will Mr Darcy grace us with his presence? Is he coming with Mr Bingley? What does he like? Chicken? Pig? I will even get him pineapple pizza if he asks!

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I find this point particularly interesting actually.

Mr Collins weirdly enough seems to be a character a lot of readers are divided on, mostly because the things he does that read comically/socially unacceptable in Austen's era, read even worse for the modern reader (ex his reaction to the rejection/letter about Lydia). From the clips I've seen of the 2005 and the 95 adaptations, he seems to be kinda lost in adaptation, as he is either portayed to be insanely goofy or give off some..... very off putting vibes.

(this is all my opinion+ a lot of discussion of the text, because I don't think we can discuss the injustice done to him in the screen without bringing up the character we read about. Please feel free to add anything to my analysis <3 )

From my understanding Collins is arguably Austen's most contrived character in the sense of his position in society. He is a clergyman from a small community, who will inherit a big house and comfortable fortune, but also he lives near Lady Rosamund who comes from "old money". He admires Lady Rosamund so much not only for her money in itself but for the finery, confidence, self assurance and dominating figure that is attached to it, and I don't think you could easily argue that he doesn't see her or her daughter as better than him.

This is an important point because it counters the argument of his being sexist for the way he handles Elizabeth's rejection. I mean, when we talk of sexism, I need you to keep in mind this is like. The regency. We aren't judging him based on modern standards, or at least trying not to.

He doesn't take her rejection badly because she is a woman : he takes it badly because he sees himself as more important than her. Mr Collins is self assured to a foolish degree, and it's not the only time we see a man in pride and prejudice be so assured of his superior position so as to not even THINK of the possibility that he could be rejected (hm hm Darcy's first proposal).

(Also ultimately his proposal was a good thing. Yes, he did it in the most self centered way possible. Yes, he went by order on which sister he found the prettiest without any sort of deeper connection. However, he didn't own to any of them to propose, and by proposing he would of secured them the house even after Mr. Bennet's death. This makes it quite clear that he isn't a bad intentioned character, in the way other Austen men appear to be.)

This, alongside other times he breaks social protocol (such as when he walks up to Darcy at the ball to introduce himself) are times where it becomes clear that despite how seriously he takes himself/likes to think of himself as, ultimately he is a silly man. His ACTIONS are silly NOT his demeanor tho, and THAT is the part adaptations seem to fall short on capturing.

honestly i think a lot of nuance to Mr. Collin's character is lost in most P&P adaptations when they cast him as a guy multiple decades older than his book age. this man is twenty-five years old and fresh out of seminary. he does things like apologize for fifteen minutes straight and start conversations in socially inappropriate ways he's not a Creepy Older Relative he's the guy who went to college and now thinks he knows shit but also somehow learned almost nothing there and is probably actually a lot more anxious than he lets on. casting him as an older guy gives a vastly different impression of what he's like

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Please pray I pass my midterms tomorrow! I have two back to back :(

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Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (2/?)

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Today I understood why Mr Bingley is important for 'Pride and Prejudice.' Of course I've heard that he's Mr Darcy's foil and he helps us see that Mr Darcy lacks manners. And probably we need him to see a man whose character trait is quickly deciding to leave a place and who might never come back, and who also - I don't know - can easily get under the influence of his friends.

And I have always seen him as a very insignificant side character, and I never understood why there was even a need for him; like why Jane Austen of all people would write such a lacking(?) side character. He is not really a commentary on something. He's just fickle.

And was there even a need for Mr Bingley & Jane's love story? They're basically 'love at first sight, destined for each other' and they look quite out of place among the other three couples -- Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Lydia and Mr Wickham, Charlotte and Mr Collins -- that are all a commentary on love and society.

Today I understood that had there been no Mr Bingley Jane would've married Mr Collins out of obligation as the eldest sister and that would have been a very different book that didn't feel like such a happy story by the end of it (my Mom calls it a fairy tale), had only one of the sisters (Elizabeth) landed herself a love match.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is an undercurrent to Jane's story that is about her being an angel and that their love with Mr Bingley is a dream that rarely comes true, I don't know. But still, apparently Mr Bingley is not as inconsequential a character as he has always seemed to be.

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You have been greeted by the book frog, he wishes you well in your reading jouney.

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I wanted to convey sheer size. And size means stability, luxury and above all strenght.

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Prayers for my mom very very much appreciated, she's going to get a spot examined, please pray it's not cancer 💗

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Fanny Dashwood and John Dashwood discussing how to fulfill his father's dying (but not legally binding) wish to take care of John's sisters and widowed stepmom: