I just love this production. I mean everything. However I was wondering what quote or whether it was from one of Jane Austen's novels. Its the bit where Jane is sitting with her sister and you here her talking from a passage. Cass says something like " I don't know how you have say it without tears" and Jane replies "I don't cry at anything that pays money"
Does anyone now what i mean?
Please help.
Thanks guys
She's reading a bit from what's presumably the first draft of Persuasion. It's not word for word what's in the novel but it is unmistakably* Anne reviewing her situation after Wentworth's return.
*Taking a chance on my memory here . . .
In that case I'll start reading the book.
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shareSo would I be mistaken that Persuasion is your favorite Jane Austen Novel?
I read 'Emma' during my As levels at school, so i guess I would have to say that one. I saw the new BBC production for 'Sense and Sensibility' and loved it. I know its a cheating way to Jane Austen's novel but it gives me an insight into the novel itself.
Persuasion is my favourite novel. Period.
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No what I was refearing to was the bit before that, where Jane is reading a passage or a quote of something. She says and I quote:
"More than seven year were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close. She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time but alas!
alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
She had used him ill. Deserted and disappointed him, and worse, she had shown a feebleness of charcter in doing so which his own decided confident temper could not endure.
She had given him up to oblige others. She had been forced into prudence in her youth. She learned romance as she grew older. The natural sequence to an unnatural beginning".
The sence that follows after is Jane with her brother in London, where he says to her. " You can call it Persausion".
So that would follow suit to it beging a passage from that book.
Well done getting a transcript up! When I was watching, I knew it wasn't straight from the book. In fact, they are Austen's own words but collected from different parts of Persuasion all dealing with Ann's feelings for Wentworth. Clever of the writers to alter things in what would be a first draft but it also brings key concepts together without giving the game away completely by naming a character or using the word 'persuasion'.
Chapter 4. . . . . . . . More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close; . . . . . . How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Chapter 7 . . . Frederick Wentworth had used such words, or something like them, but without an idea that they would be carried round to her. He had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken as he felt. He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.
Chapter 19 . . . She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.share