{"id":2478,"date":"2005-11-29T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/pride-prejudice-a-fairy-tale-nostalgia\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:10:00","slug":"pride-prejudice-a-fairy-tale-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/pride-prejudice-a-fairy-tale-nostalgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Pride & Prejudice: a fairy-tale nostalgia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

While checking out some of the sites that have linked to this blog, I discovered this<\/a> interesting take on Pride & Prejudice<\/a><\/i>, which is largely a reply to, and rebuttal of, Gene Edward Veith\u2019s review in World<\/a><\/i> magazine. For example, Veith writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie is sumptuous to look upon, capturing well both the sights and the feel of early 19th-century England. We are immersed in a graceful culture where sexual immorality is a devastating blow to the family honor. And where a gentleman\u2019s moral character changes a woman\u2019s hostility into love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then the Elfin Ethicist responds:<\/p>\n

This \u201cgraceful culture\u201d is a fairy tale \u2014 and not Austen\u2019s fairy tale, but Veith\u2019s. Did not many 19th-century women, anxious to secure financial and social support, overlook moral weakness in their men? Remember, Elizabeth Bennet is unique<\/i> in the novel for her insistence upon the man\u2019s character; the novel shows her rejecting the dominant value of her society, which would have her put economic safety and worldly honor first. To glorify her culture is to miss out on the strength of her character altogether. Furthermore, Veith is ignoring the darker side of the \u201cdevastating blow to a family\u2019s honor\u201d associated with (a woman\u2019s) sexual immorality. In the novel, Jane and Elizabeth agonize over the shame brought down by their sister \u2014 shame that threatens their lifelong happiness, security, and social standing despite their total innocence. Does Veith really find that desirable in a culture?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This echoes many of the thoughts that I had while watching the film, but did not put into words in my earlier posts.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a fair bit more, looking at how the sort of \u201cnostalgia\u201d demonstrated in Veith\u2019s review dominates much of the evangelical discourse these days, and so on. The Ethicist concludes:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my point: true moral fiber is always countercultural. Christians are called to resist the temptations of \u201cthe world,\u201d not just modernity. We are not doing ourselves any favors by getting bleary-eyed over yesteryear\u2019s state of affairs. Homesickness is natural, but we should be longing for a different kingdom entirely, not for any social state of the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite so. The past definitely has its place, of course \u2014 we can\u2019t be re-inventing the faith every generation, for example \u2014 but romanticizing the past can<\/i> be dangerous. And one of the things I liked about this film, and the way it emphasized these economic issues, was how un-romanticized its view of the past was.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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