Re: Pride and Prejudice post.
I disagree. Lizzie literally says “I am determined only the deepest of love will induce me into matrimony.”
What’s weird is that you included the second half of that quote, “So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.” in your argument, so did you willfully ignore canon to buoy up your head canon?
Yeah see, that's cuz that entire line isn't from the book.
It's from the 1995 adaptation.
Which is why my argument doesn't actually rest on it; I brought the cushion bit out because it really encapsulates that option well, of Elizabeth being a dependent in Jane's house and of that being okay because Jane loves her. It illustrates the scenario in context.
It was so I could just say that, instead of doing a whole-ass paragraph about spinster aunts, and it worked, except now the post is circulating widely and I get all these people correcting me about it ffs. (Actually very funny I'm getting these snotty messages from both directions.)
Presumably the '95 people had also considered Jane as a practical resource. It's really not a stretch.
They did however make up the 'deepest of love' bit. They just made it up. It is original to that medium. Please go find the P&P fulltext on Project Gutenburg and ctrl+f for it, it's not there.
I think it's done Elizabeth's character a great disservice how widely it's been taken for original.
She did not say that. That assertion does not belong in analysis of the novel. Lizzie does tell her father that she loves Darcy, at the end, after the proper proposal, so she got to have a love match, but she wasn't impractical enough to hold out for one, and she wasn't opposed to marriage, just careful about it. She just wanted to be sure she could be happy.
That doesn't require romance. It just requires not getting stuck in a hell is other people scenario.
