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by Carolyn Moynihan from Mercator.net as cited by Ladies Against Feminism – Jane Austen’s Marriage Challenge
Editor’s note: After the cultural angst of Bruce Gerencser’s love of television this piece from LAF illustrates two things perfectly. 1 – The revisionist history/misunderstanding of all that was inherent in Austen’s writings on marriage and courtship and 2 – their notions that some culture is Godly, but the rest of popular culture is somehow ‘evil’. This piece misses many of the main points in Austen’s ideas on marriage and shame/blames those who like “Game of Thrones”. GoT has nothing to do with the main theme of the article so it’s just gratuitous shaming. No, LAF, the main idea of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is not marrying up, or marriage no matter what the obstacles.
Guess it never occurred to the writer that it is actually possible to love both Austen and ‘Game of Thrones’
During the last couple of weeks, while Jane Austen fans have been paying tribute to the famous novelist on the 200th anniversary of her death, devotees of a very different type of fiction have been getting their fix of Game of Thrones, Season 7. From all accounts this television series has more dead bodies than a busy mortuary, making it incredibly popular for some reason. A trailer for the series that I came across had over 35 million views.
As one writer has observed, death is barely glimpsed in Austen’s six novels. Writing at a time when high infant mortality and common diseases made death a regular visitor even in the families of the gentry, claiming Austen herself at the age of 41, she never killed off a major character. Her concern is with life and the great institution that produces and nurtures it: marriage.
Despite the dramatic differences between her world and ours, it is about this subject that her stories have most to teach our age. The fact that ours has largely lost the plot about matrimony may even be the reason that stories like Pride and Prejudice continue to find an audience after all this time: courtship, marriage, intimacy, children, in that order: how novel!
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