Marriage.
So far in Jane Austen's novel Emma and based on the last few chapters I read, it seems that everyone thinks life is complete when one marries.
Take Jane as a fine example. Jane's mother was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Bates, and died right after the news of her husband being killed during battle; he was a lieutenant Fairfax. That left Jane to be an orphan. A friend of her father's raised her as a member of his own family. He had a daughter about Jane's age, and the two girls became thick friends. Due to the fact, this man was kind enough to raise Jane with an education, Jane grew up to be an intelligent and beautiful young woman.
Everything was fine until it was time for Jane to be married, there was no dowry but in the place of it, Jane's education was the prize. It was mentioned that her knowledge will earn her a place as a governess. However, after the marriage, Jane became very sick and that place as a governess has not been fulfilled.
Marriage also seemed to be the way out for parents. Reading this book made me realize that back then, parents thought that marrying their daughter off to a "well off" family will ease them from their responsibility. Since everyone is getting engaged and married, this cases Emma's father to pose marriage to her. But Emma laughs, like she always does when the topic of marriage was issued to her, and said she wont ever get married.
I have to admit, the book is getting better. =] However, classics still aren't my choice in books to read, the language is surely not what I'm used to but I'm getting sued to it.
Take Jane as a fine example. Jane's mother was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Bates, and died right after the news of her husband being killed during battle; he was a lieutenant Fairfax. That left Jane to be an orphan. A friend of her father's raised her as a member of his own family. He had a daughter about Jane's age, and the two girls became thick friends. Due to the fact, this man was kind enough to raise Jane with an education, Jane grew up to be an intelligent and beautiful young woman.
Everything was fine until it was time for Jane to be married, there was no dowry but in the place of it, Jane's education was the prize. It was mentioned that her knowledge will earn her a place as a governess. However, after the marriage, Jane became very sick and that place as a governess has not been fulfilled.
Marriage also seemed to be the way out for parents. Reading this book made me realize that back then, parents thought that marrying their daughter off to a "well off" family will ease them from their responsibility. Since everyone is getting engaged and married, this cases Emma's father to pose marriage to her. But Emma laughs, like she always does when the topic of marriage was issued to her, and said she wont ever get married.
I have to admit, the book is getting better. =] However, classics still aren't my choice in books to read, the language is surely not what I'm used to but I'm getting sued to it.
posted by Arifa. @ 8:18 AM
1 Comments:
At April 27, 2008 at 6:33 PM ,
Goyal said...
Hey, as always this was a good post, however I have to disagree with what you said about classical books. The language is a bit different, but I think they are the best type of books to read. Instead of the modern day slang, they teach you to read more along the lines of "proper" english. These books also seem to show a different type of life value than what we are used to. Those principles that they teach, are in some ways, a bit mroe respectable, than what modern day books show.
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