Sense & Sensibility
Friday, March 05, 2004
My Paper Topic:
I think I'm going to title my paper "Senseless and Infidelity" simply because the whole novel was senseless and almost everyone was cheating on everyone else. I think I'm going to end my novel talking about how Austen never married, yet she decided to write a novel portraying the Victorian age. I think she contradicts herself. I can't wait to be done with my paper. Hopefully I won't bash the book too much.
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Haha, Ellen. Maybe the third daughter actually did something with her life, found a GOOD person to be with, and less to whine and complain about.
Talk about stupid, this book is ridiculous. I am so mad at both sisters. Anne is prancing around like a two cent whore while Elinor is letting Ed "play" with any girl under the sun. I can't believe Elinor took Ed back, granted he never belonged to her in the first place. Lucy was flaunting the relationship she had with Ed in front of Elinor's face and Elinor just sad and took it. I can't believe Robert sat and married Lucy. Does anyone have any shame? I'm tried of Anne falling out at the littlest mention of disappointing news. I feel like someone could tell her it's going to hail today and she would fall out and get sick. And Brandon was way too nice to that girl. She acted sorta like Lucy and that made me mad. And how come Mrs. Dashwood had three daughters but you only heard about two of them? How old was the third one? I would like to think she had better sense than both her sisters put together, but it seems like everyone had either ADD or was stupid back then.
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Ok, I've found the moral of the story while painfully making myself read it. It actually has two morals. One, keep everyone out of your business. The gossipy aspect of the book annoys me b/c we have enough of it at school to write a series of books, but you don't see Walker students huddled in corners passionately writing about "common" problems today and such. It all really seems stupid. I'd rather watch soap operas. Two, the men portrayed in this book are dogs. I agree with you El about Will treating Anne badly. What's his problem? And I don't know what Ed was thinking. I think Ed decided to try and get the whole ice cream truck for free or something. He makes me angry. The whole book is shady. I'm curious, was middle class life really like this in Austen's time? It all seems like a really bad play.
My Net was down for a couple days while I was reading this, so I'm dating the posts when I would have posted them, had I had the priviledge of having to have the internet... to have.
Anyway, I think the women in this book need to stop doing what they think is the polite thing to do, ahrem, Elinor, and start doing what the right thing to do for themselves is. It seems to me the reason why all this stuff is happening (i.e. all these political struggles and backstabings) is because they are all so concerned with social...ness. If they would just understand that socializing is a tool, or a means to an end, they could cut the B.S. get motives out in the open, and make all of them happy. I'm getting sick of this book. Austen should cut all the boring menutia out if she wanted to make a moving, influencing piece of work. Otherwise, yeah, I'm the umpteenth person calling it a Soap Opera......ZZzzzZZZzzzzZZZzz
Monday, March 01, 2004
i'm not sure why nick is reading this either. mebbe it sounded juicy? i dunno - it's certainly turned out like the back made it sound - very soap opera-ish. i do actually like the book though. it's not exactly my primo choice, but it at least captures your interest with the gossipy style. i've given up on edward and willoughby. they stink, but whatever. i can't figure them out. willoughby treats marianne like scum, yet he tries to explain everything to Elinor? and then edward has the decency to feel awkward when with Elinor, yet he still wants to go off and get married with Lucy. my deal is, why did he even feign attraction to Elinor in the first place? his ma had already picked out another chick for him, and he had Lucy, but he still goes and messes with Elinor. shady...very shady.
I'm "sensing" (get it? oh man, I'm good) that the book is less about feminism in particular, and more about self-independence to anyone. Sort of like how the Black Panthers reached out to oppressed people the world over, I think you can apply this book to any group or individual. For example, are all men this bad? Heavens, no. Ignoring the fact that the expression "Heavens, no." is ridiculous, not all men are this selfish, especially like Will in the treatment of Anne. "S&S" is more like the Bible than a manifesto. It's a bunch of exaggerations that mean something different depending on how you interpret it.
Friday, February 27, 2004
My internet connection was down for a week and I sorta forgot about this, my bad. I wanted to complain like Tuesday about something, so bare with my half-hearted argument. The book sucks. I'm so tired of seeing the word "sensibility" it doesn't make sense. I think Jane couldn't think of a thing to call her book so she went to a random page and picked out the first two words she saw or something. Also, to go with what Nick said about women being in kitchens a while back, Nick should be in a kitchen. Can you picture it? Nick, why are you reading this book in the first place?
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
okay - willoughby is scum and Lucy is worse. She's one of the Miss Steeles, the younger one that's secretly engaged to Edward. The same Edward that is in love (?) with Elinor, of course. Lucy acts like she doesn't know they were a thing, but she rubs it in every chance she gets. She is so mean!! It's like she thrives off of the pain she knows that Elinor must feel, though doesn't express. I don't know, i'm just want her to get hers...mebbe i'm getting too into this, but i can't help but stick up for Elinor.
I think that of the two sisters, Marianne and Elinor, Elinor is the stronger of the two. She has been so supportive for her sister and mom. Plus, she has kept the whole thing with Edward hidden - she even spends time with Lucy because it's the polite/right thing to do. She's a beast, basically. :-)
-ellen
Monday, February 23, 2004
i agree with you about how crazy the whole rumor about them being gay was. it kinda fits the mood of the book though. everyone is always up in everyone else's business so much its almost funny. Mrs. Jennings is the perfect example of that - no matter what's happening, she knows and has an opinion about it. i don't know if i could stand her for long periods of time. :-)
this book seems like a soap opera.
