#Jane Austen persuasion

[jadedmoss]

persuasion trailer did not just assassinate anne elliot, but also wentworth, as he’s supposed to be this raging proud sea captain who is spending the whole book shoving his “i’ve moved on” attitude into anne’s face until he is absolutely obliterated and brought to his knees by her persistent kindness and gentleness. HE IS NOT SOME SHY SOFT BOY WHO YEARNS LIKE ANNE HE IS A STUPID MEATHEAD WHO WAS SO PROUD AND BLIND HE HAD TO WRITE A LETTER TO SAY I LOVE U AFTER ALMOST MARRYING ANOTHER GIRL OUT OF SPITE

[muchtooold2]

Watching the new Persuasion trailer like

[pretty-ven0m]

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

–Anne Elliot

Persuasion (1817)

[thesweetnessofspring]

Jane Austen fans may not agree on the various adaptations of her work, but at least we can all agree that Persuasion (2022) is a crime against literature.

[thormanick]

i am absolutely delusional, hear me out:

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement." Persuasion, Jane Austen.

Pride and Prejudice was an amazing reference in Ahaitham's quest but if THIS does not describe angsty kavetham/haikaveh I've no idea what does

[mysweetobsessionwithwords]

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

- Jane Austen, Persuasion

[nasty-bog-boy]

not to post about persuasion again but i have so much to say.

one thing i really love about persuasion and that makes it feel so very true to life is Wentworth's bitterness towards Anne and his subsequent forgiveness. he's a flawed guy!!!

Wentworth loved someone, proposed to her and then found that she was not confident in her love for him and so rejected him out of fear and weakness. he put himself on the line for her and was essentially told by the woman he loved he isn't good enough.

of course I love Anne Elliot. she was vulnerable and pursued by someone older and wiser who she looked up to. and honestly Lady Russell isn't completely wrong. Wentworth was in the navy and just as likely to die and leave Anne a penniless widow as become a rich and respected captain.

but Wentworth's resentment towards Anne just serves to make him an equally flawed yet admirable character. his character arc involves him learning to forgive Anne for her actions when she was younger and allow himself to love her again, both for who she was when they were young but also for the older woman she is now. he has to recognise the changes in her and her new strength of character and resolve.

both Anne and Wentworth must admit to themselves where their faults are and change over the course of the novel, because if they don't they won't be able to confess their feelings to each other again.

Wentworth has to be a bigger person and let go of his very justified anger. he loved Anne and she broke his heart, but she's different now and he must admit to himself how he never truly stopped loving her and comparing all other women to her. he has to acknowledge the pain her mistakes caused her and forgive her, as otherwise he would never be able to get her back.

there's just something so beautiful about persuasion featuring two leads who carry very complicated feelings towards each other from their pasts having to reckon with that. they have to forgive each other and move past the very real hurt that was caused in order to have another chance at happiness

its something we can do! its a lesson! we can resolve to act as Anne and do and seek to improve ourselves, to move through the world with grace and forgiveness!

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

[happysadvibes]

“She thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”

— Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

[twelvemonkeyswere]

if your Persuasion adaptation doesn't capture this energy from Wentworth what even is the point

[i-lavabean]

Having watched The Antiquinarian (four times) I am now convinced that @noshirdalal would play an incredible Captain Wentworth. He's got so much emotion in his performances, the "half agony half hope" speech would sound amazing.

Man now I want a Persuasion audio play with the whole Candela Obscura cast

[lily-s-world]

The fact that there are so many Jane Austen retellings and adaptations out there, but none of them is a sapphic version of Persuasion is downright criminal.

[lovedthestars-toofondly]

Captain Frederick “oh yeah I’m totally over Anne” Wentworth.

Captain Frederick “I definitely still wasn’t thinking about her two years later and almost went back to propose again” Wentworth.

Captain Frederick “I flirt with another girl by implicitly talking about Anne the entire time and I definitely don’t just do this to show her how totally and completely over her I am” Wentworth.

Captain Frederick “no I’m not in denial why would you think that??” Wentworth.

Captain Frederick “I’m not in love with her anymore I’m just keenly aware of how she’s feeling at all times and jump at the slightest opportunity to alleviate her discomfort” Wentworth.

[lethargarian]

2022 books wrapped

“I just dared to fly too close to the sun in my desire to thaw” - nick and norah’s infinite playlist, rachel cohn & david levithan

“The darkness is coming for me after all. And it has teeth” - black tide, k.c. jones

“Peace, Eleanor thought concretely; what I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot up among the flowers where I can dream and tell myself sweet stories.” - the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

“Death is too easy. Better to make every moment of the rest of a person’s life agony.” - the only good indians, stephen graham jones

“she had found more to enjoy than to suffer” - persuasion, jane austen

“she’s shooting me daggers, but she’s not feeling it enough for them to actually hit me, so instead they just fall on the ground in between us, and she’s still kind of mad about it, but I’m just like, Look daggers!” - naomi and ely’s no kiss list, rachel cohn & david levithan

“I would much rather have been merry than wise” - emma, jane austen

“all this time I had been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail”

“above me, the tides kept their relentless motion, but I was too deep to feel them” - circe, madeline miller

“I make no promises but I offer many doors” - book lovers, emily henry

“‘Welcome to the world,’ he said wearily. ‘You get used to it after a while’” - good omens, neil gaiman and terry pratchet

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me” -ninth house, leigh bardugo

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. expect us when you see us” -stardust, neil gaiman

“we reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room loving him in silence” - the song of achilles, madeline miller

“death is the only victor in war” -the house of sky and breath, sarah j. maas

"Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold on to each other tight until the dark spat you back out" - beach read, emily henry

"The opinion of other people never interested him in the slightest degree. I think it was really a sign of his greatness." - the man in the brown suit, agatha christie

"That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer." - revival, stephen king

"Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that's all it takes." - people we meet on vacation, emily henry

[i-j-a-n-e]