Comments on: JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS /jane-austen-small-worlds-strong-passions/ Art and media blog of the unexpected Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave /jane-austen-small-worlds-strong-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-23772 Dave Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:17:33 +0000 /?p=21931#comment-23772 thanks for reading. Your thoughts seem to express much of the ambivalence that women readers of Jane Austen have., thanks for reading. Your thoughts seem to express much of the ambivalence that women readers of Jane Austen have.,

]]> By: Marìa /jane-austen-small-worlds-strong-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-23659 Marìa Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:09:22 +0000 /?p=21931#comment-23659 Since my viewpoint, and how I lived it, the whore-madonna thing became a reality to me as soon as I had to continue a marriage without illusion, only for the sake of my children; I could have done it, but did not marry a rich young man, but a middle class one, just like me. Maybe Jane Austen novels are adequate to Victorian times, written by a Victorian upper middle-class maiden; small town, big hell, it is said in spanish, relating to gossip and social pressure; Don Quijote and Sancho, two universal human stereotypes, came from a small town, too, but a microuniverse, with all human passions present. I have not finished any of her novels, maybe because of the films, but find them lovely. Since my viewpoint, and how I lived it, the whore-madonna thing became a reality to me as soon as I had to continue a marriage without illusion, only for the sake of my children; I could have done it, but did not marry a rich young man, but a middle class one, just like me.

Maybe Jane Austen novels are adequate to Victorian times, written by a Victorian upper middle-class maiden; small town, big hell, it is said in spanish, relating to gossip and social pressure; Don Quijote and Sancho, two universal human stereotypes, came from a small town, too, but a microuniverse, with all human passions present.
I have not finished any of her novels, maybe because of the films, but find them lovely.

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