Elizabeth And Darcy
Dec. 9th, 2004 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've just watched the BBC's Pride and Prejudice- all six hours of it in a single session. I started out of duty (Ailz is studing P & P with the Open University) but I quickly became hooked.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
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Re: -happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 03:32 pm (UTC)I feel very (and this will sound silly) civilized when I watch P&P. It makes me want to be more of a lady, more genteel, more feminine - which I actually want to be anyway, so it's not as if watching the series has me all topsy-turvy or anything like that. Rather, it serves as a reminder of the woman I would like to be...I really should watch it again.
That's one of the reasons I love to drink my tea (with milk and -gasp- sugar, thank you very much). I think it's a far more civilized drink than coffee could ever hope to be; there is something extremely satisfying about having a nice cup of tea.
Re: -happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 03:52 pm (UTC)I would love to wear one of those full-skirted greatcoats and a top hat. So very dashing!