Comments on: What’s with the fascination w/ Mr. darcy? http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/ One Muslimah's Travelogue of Life Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mummyjaan http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/comment-page-1/#comment-86556 mummyjaan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:15:15 +0000 http://jannah.org/blog/archives/59#comment-86556 Thanks for 'splainin it so well, sister! Thanks for ‘splainin it so well, sister!

]]> By: WCoastBaba http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/comment-page-1/#comment-85462 WCoastBaba Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:58:14 +0000 http://jannah.org/blog/archives/59#comment-85462 Salam Sis J - This might sound strange, but Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books! Additionally, a Sister I know back home (Bengali) whose family is really "tight" with mine, also loves it and especially the BBC production of the book, which I love very much as well. Since discovering this common liking, from time to time we chat about it. From these exchanges, just as you described , there a lot of beautiful things that occur over the course of the narrative, but one moment that stuck out to this Sister was when when Elizabeth is helping Darcy's sister play the piano and at one point, Darcy looks at Elizabeth from across the room, that look itself - more love and romance that any movie we see these days - without even being in close proximity to each other. Just thought that was another beautiful concept and wanted to share it when I saw this blog entry. So I think the fascination with Mr. Darcy and P&P in general is not necessarily limited to the fairer sex. :-) Salam Sis J – This might sound strange, but Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books! Additionally, a Sister I know back home (Bengali) whose family is really “tight” with mine, also loves it and especially the BBC production of the book, which I love very much as well. Since discovering this common liking, from time to time we chat about it. From these exchanges, just as you described , there a lot of beautiful things that occur over the course of the narrative, but one moment that stuck out to this Sister was when when Elizabeth is helping Darcy’s sister play the piano and at one point, Darcy looks at Elizabeth from across the room, that look itself – more love and romance that any movie we see these days – without even being in close proximity to each other. Just thought that was another beautiful concept and wanted to share it when I saw this blog entry. So I think the fascination with Mr. Darcy and P&P in general is not necessarily limited to the fairer sex. :-)

]]> By: jannah http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/comment-page-1/#comment-85336 jannah Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:35:28 +0000 http://jannah.org/blog/archives/59#comment-85336 ur right wael... that's one of the biggest criticisms of jane austen... even one of the bronte sisters once cattily said that jane only writes of 'perfect gardens within white picket fences' or some such... makes sense cuz look at wuthering heights compared to p&p!! but that is why people love jane austen.. who wants to read about war and famine and abnormal crazy love (can we say heathcliff)or thomas hardy (read tess of the d'urbervilles u'll want to kill urself after) jane austen is about the drama.. it's about her dry humor... about the fallabilities of humans...the irony of life..of crazy situations...and of course the question of love...while never really getting into it (as is proper ;0)..and the stories are interesting enough to have lasted 200 hundred years and countless adaptations. ur right wael… that’s one of the biggest criticisms of jane austen… even one of the bronte sisters once cattily said that jane only writes of ‘perfect gardens within white picket fences’ or some such… makes sense cuz look at wuthering heights compared to p&p!! but that is why people love jane austen.. who wants to read about war and famine and abnormal crazy love (can we say heathcliff)or thomas hardy (read tess of the d’urbervilles u’ll want to kill urself after)

jane austen is about the drama.. it’s about her dry humor… about the fallabilities of humans…the irony of life..of crazy situations…and of course the question of love…while never really getting into it (as is proper ;0)..and the stories are interesting enough to have lasted 200 hundred years and countless adaptations.

]]> By: Zawaj.com http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/comment-page-1/#comment-28752 Zawaj.com Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:55:35 +0000 http://jannah.org/blog/archives/59#comment-28752 By the way, it's very hard to read this light colored text against the lavender background. I have to highlight it to read it. By the way, it’s very hard to read this light colored text against the lavender background. I have to highlight it to read it.

]]> By: Zawaj.com http://jannah.org/blog/2006/12/10/whats-with-the-fascination-w-mr-darcy/comment-page-1/#comment-28751 Zawaj.com Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:54:21 +0000 http://jannah.org/blog/archives/59#comment-28751 It's a good film and my wife loves it. But would she still be interested in him if he were poor? He's not exactly a difficult guy to love. He's got all the qualities women love, right? Handsome, mysterious, a little bit arrogant, and rich. That mother is such a a dramatist, and the two youngest daughters are utter birdbrains. Takes guts to marry into a family like that. One thing that bothers me about these stories is that they're set in a world where everyone is either rich or richer. Even the so-called "poor" have land and servants. And yet this was a time (19th century England, right?) when masses of people were literally dying of hunger, disease and malnutrition. Most people were landless, living in slums and working themselves to death in awful factories. But in these films, none of that exists. Of course we can't expect a film to acknowledge every societal ill of the times, so I guess accept it within its self-imposed boundaries. - Wael It’s a good film and my wife loves it. But would she still be interested in him if he were poor? He’s not exactly a difficult guy to love. He’s got all the qualities women love, right? Handsome, mysterious, a little bit arrogant, and rich.

That mother is such a a dramatist, and the two youngest daughters are utter birdbrains. Takes guts to marry into a family like that.

One thing that bothers me about these stories is that they’re set in a world where everyone is either rich or richer. Even the so-called “poor” have land and servants. And yet this was a time (19th century England, right?) when masses of people were literally dying of hunger, disease and malnutrition. Most people were landless, living in slums and working themselves to death in awful factories. But in these films, none of that exists.

Of course we can’t expect a film to acknowledge every societal ill of the times, so I guess accept it within its self-imposed boundaries. – Wael

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