*This is only MY opinion guys :)*
As you can no
doubt tell from the title of this post poor Edward does not fair too well in my
estimations. In fact, I find him to be a bit of a drip. Not only that but he
commits a cardinal sin my leading on one of our Austen girls.
I mean
really. At the end of the day what makes his actions any different from Willoughby’s?
Elinor - I have no doubt you will agree - is not a flighty girl, she is grounded
and sticks to what is considered proper and yet she allowed her heart to become
attached to this man who was paying her more than the usual amount of
attention. What else was she to think than that he too had feeling for her.
Which he DID.
And then what
does she find out. In the most round-about and hurtful way that he is already
engaged to a young woman and yet paid court to her at the same time. Agh! It makes
me so made.
Edward
Ferrars you are a CAD!
Any hero’s
from Jane Austen’s works that you think didn’t live up to being ‘all that’?
Hahaha I love this. I actually rather like Edward (probably because in the movie he's played with exceeding charm by Hugh Grant - plus he's so nice in comparison with his wretched sister) but I do love it when someone disagrees with popular opinion :D
ReplyDelete-kelsey
Hehe, yeah I have to agree that the way that a character is acted reflects how I feel about them too. We are only human lol ;)
DeleteWell, yeah, you're right about the guy.
ReplyDeleteI never think about it that way but he could have told Elinor a lot early what was going on. He was a bit of a coward, though he did want to keep his word to Lucy because thats what a gentleman would have done.
So it's a fifty-fifty for me.
I suppose we do have to take into account that he did what he did because he thought it was the best thing to be done at the time but I still want to give him a right good talking too :)
DeleteI know what you mean! I only find his behavior excusable given the time period and the constraints. I would never forgive a guy who did this nowadays!
ReplyDeleteIf this happened today I think I would be showing him where the door was :)
Delete