Jane Austen: So feminist are her books still today
Moment mal…Jane AustenShould be feminist?DieJane Austen, in whose books it is actually always about the daughters of medium -sized English rural families? Admittedly, anyone who looks at the mere basic structure of the famous romance novels from the 19th century with the glasses of an empo -value woman from the 21st century will think: This is a patriarchal snow from yesterday, which we have long since become.
But if you look beyond the circumstances of the time, in which the marriage question manyforced to drive - and as a-Thiche also had it sold well -one discovers in the way Jane Austen her charactersFinding or losing that the English author was ahead of her time. Especially when it comes to their protagonists who embody the enlightening zeitgeist from Austen's lifetime. You put your feelings inFor reason, criticize the structures of their living environment and look rather amused to the whole court theater of the nobility. Social morality is as important to them as to oppose outdated principles.
In addition, almost all of her protagonists live out a sisterly love that Jane Austen has drawn from her own lives and her close bond with her sister Cassandra. A love that is the perfect model for all feminist women's relationships in which you want to support yourself unconditionally - no matter how different the life ideas of the others are. A thought that - that also shows thatAgain only too well - even today it has not arrived at everyone.
You wantmake? Go for it. Do you want to take care of the husband and children at home? Go for it! The main thing is that you have, for which many of Jane Austen fought protagonists: freedom to decide yourself.
Jane Austen: These books and their protagonists are still super-empty today
You can find out which books you should have read from Jane Austen - and which protagonist makes the respective title so worth reading - here:
pride and Prejudice
Protagonist:Elizabeth Bennet
“Pride and prejudice” is undoubtedly the best -known story of Jane Austen. And who is not the film adaptationIn the leading role, it should make up quickly if he: You want to know why it can be so hot if someone shares your hand while you get into a carriage. The book template tells the story of five sisters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. The focus is on Elizabeth Bennet, who read just as ingenious and who stamps the arrogant MR Darcy after a first encounter as the most impossible man in the world. What follows is Enemies to Lovers with Regency-Vibes, a lot of sharp-tongued dialogues and the timeless story about how to reduce your own prejudices.
Highlight:When Elizabeth's best friend accepts the marriage proposal from MR Collins after Elizabeth spurned it. Elizabeth realizes that not everyone in life has the (financial) privilege to wait for a love marriage.
"Pride and prejudice" by Jane Austen
Feeling and mind
Protagonists:Elinor and Marianne Dashwood
Elinor embodies “mind” (Sense) - it is rational, reserved and independent, whereas Marianne stands for “feeling” (sensitivity) - passionate, impulsive and romantic. While Marianne falls head over his head in the charming Willoughby, who with his enthusiasm for herAnd poetry turns her head, she builds up a friendly bond with the much older and reserved Colonel Brandon. That in turn has a lot more than justin mind.
“Feeling and mind” is a story that raises the question of how true love should look. Is it really always the stormy butterflies that should show you who belongs to you? Or is consistency and reliability crucial? And: What can you learn from a sister who is so different at first glance than you?
Highlight:“Feeling and mind” is the debut novel by Jane Austen and was originally published under the pseudonym “by a lady”-just as if it could have been any woman who wrote this bestseller.
"Feeling and mind" by Jane Austen
The abbey of Northanger
Protagonist:Catherine Morland
“The Abbey of Northanger” revolves around Catherine Morland, a young woman, which is naive but good -natured, who travels to the spa town of Bath for her first social outing. There she spends her time almost obsessively with reading mystery romances and horror novels and device in a number of misunderstandings because she confuses reality with fiction. She has to experience some disappointments - because reality is more boring than the texts she reads - and grows on it. A rather timeless experience that still applies today when you-Desperately looking for men who are only available in literature that was written by women. Looking at you, hot priest.
Highlight:“The Abbey of Northanger” stands out among Jane Austen's novels because the text not only contains sarcastic characters, but as a whole is a parody of Gothic literature at the time.
"The Abbey of Northanger" by Jane Austen
Emma
Protagonist:Emma Woodhouse
Emma is wealthy, independent and determined not to get married. She prefers to spend her time coupling others rather than subordinating herself. After an error in which she hurt someone who is close to her, she has to stop her game and bring her own action back into harmony with her values. A story that has been reissued to this day-probably most iconic as a high school comedy “Clueless”.
Highlight:Emma's quote: “Oh! I always earn the best treatment because I never put up with anything else, so you have to give me a clear and direct answer. ”
Mansfield Park
Protagonist:Fanny Price
“Mansfield Park” could be described as the most fictional of all stories by Jane Austen. Because if we know one thing, then reluctance and virtue rarely lead to success. Looking at you, Musk, Zuckerberg and Co. and yet Fanny Price succeeds, who grows up as a poor girl with her wealthy relatives and always feels as an outsider. While her spoiled cousins commit moral failure to the left and right, Fanny remains loyal to her values and resists the advances of charismatic but unreliable Henry Crawford. Instead, she secretly loves her cousin Edmund Bertram, who is initially in love with manipulative Mary Crawford, but finally recognizes Fanny's true values. In the end, Fanny is rewarded for her steadfastness and marries Edmund.
Highlight:That in this story, so differently than in reality, the morally acting actually gets everything it wants.
Exceptionally tooLowlight: That she marries a man who spurned her for a long time. (Today) We can do better!
"Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen
persuasion
Protagonist:Anne Elliot
Anne once gave up her great love because herstamped him as not beyond. But years later, the two get a second chance. Anne is more mature and more thoughtful than other heroines and proves that women can determine their happiness themselves despite social expectations. Their development primarily stands for self -determination and the possibility of a second chance, but also for an important step that is still part of every emancipation today: the delimitation from the.
Highlight:That this novel is falling in love with the trope “rich man”, which we have seen from “My Fair Lady” to “Pretty Woman” all too often.
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
