Well, I've read Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
I must say, I really enjoyed the book. Jane's portrayal of female character, she doesn't focus heavily on the romantic storyline (but it's influenced by other events that are equally important and unrelated to the romantic plot, but still contribute to the themes the author wants to convey), making the reading experience truly captivating. The love story is beautifully crafted. Both Elizabeth and Darcy are portrayed as equally right and wrong. They are human, so they made mistakes, but they later acknowledged them, albeit not without inflicting wounds on each other beforehand. I really enjoyed their conversations in the last three chapters, where they clarify everything that happened between them in more detail, and Elizabeth acknowledges that they both made mistakes.
Anyway. I tend to think that the argument between Aziracrow at the end of season 2 is obviously an allusion to the argument between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy at Mrs. Collins’s house, Charlotte’s house, that is (I think that’s where it happened, if I remember correctly). It’s based on a misunderstanding, and it causes both of them a great deal of pain. Mr. Darcy also paces back and forth, just like Crowley does. They part on a fairly painful note.
But because Mr. Darcy’s feelings were stronger than his anger over the whole situation (although, for the most part, he was obviously angry at Wickham), and because he genuinely wanted to clear everything up, dispel Elizabeth’s prejudices, and tell her the whole truth, he comes back and gives her a letter in which he explains everything as it really was. He admits that he should have told her everything on the night of their argument, but that he was too emotional to do so at the time.
He also entrusts her with extremely personal information, such as his sister’s elopement with Wickham. As far as I understand, this was genuinely a very intimate gesture on his part, since apart from his cousin and the people directly involved in the incident, no one else knew about it.
The events that follow ultimately resolve all the misunderstandings between them, which I could talk about for quite a while. But the most important part I want to emphasize is the conversation between Elizabeth and Darcy, in which they clearly and directly explain to each other what motives and feelings led them to act or speak the way they did, who was right and who was wrong, and where they had both messed up.
My point is this: since Good Omens placed such a strong emphasis on this novel in season 2 and showed an argument that, in its essence, resembles the argument between the protagonists of that novel, a misunderstanding that they later resolve through an honest and sensible conversation (and Good Omens also emphasized the importance of such a conversation through Nina and Maggie and their conversation with Crowley), then, obviously, the misunderstanding between Aziraphale and Crowley was supposed to be resolved in exactly the same way, or at least in a similar one!
Also, again, Darcy and Elizabeth are presented as both being equally right and wrong, there is a balance between them. How difficult would it have been to maintain that same balance with Aziracrow?Why did they need to make Crowley the only one who was in the right?
