Sunday, May 3, 2009

What about the Austen Craze annoys you?

While I love Jane Austen in all of her amazingness, I would also have to argue that Austen at times does bug me. I mean why write all these love stories, that always have a Cinderella plot line. There are some of her novels that are complex, but they are never difficult to understand. Austen never writes about the love stories that don't work out. Every character gets what they want, they live happily ever after and the novels end there. The reader never gets to see what happend after the characters get married. Also why can't a woman marry the man she wants without regard to money or status. I mean I know at that time period it would be scandalous, and she would be an outcast. Austen never writes about this although I am sure it did happen. Why does Austen always have this Pauper to Rishes story? It never varies. I wish that it could be more complex or use more of the real history/world that it was written in. Why didn't Austen try to write in different time periods, or places, or with vastly different character/stories? That is just what I think.