Time being what it is
Jun. 19th, 2010 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vr_trakowskiI watched Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility today; I've seen it before, but not recently. I hadn't so much as forgotten that Hugh Laurie was in it as that he simply wasn't on my radar at the time.
It's been so long since I read the book that I don't know how accurate the movie is, but aside from completely failing to show any attraction in Marianne to Colonel Brandon, it's fun. Though I did keep thinking that Elinor and Colonel Brandon would be a better match.
It's sobering to reflect, though, that for women of that class there was nothing but marriage. It's their defining thought. I don't know enough history to know if the same was true for the other classes, but it gives me a nasty feeling. I know I'm very lucky to live in this time, and place, where for me marriage never became more than a "maybe someday, if the opportunity arises". It was never a necessity.
Of course, the idea of being married to someone I do not love, or to someone who does not love me, is one of my personal nightmares. But that's rather beside the point.
It's been so long since I read the book that I don't know how accurate the movie is, but aside from completely failing to show any attraction in Marianne to Colonel Brandon, it's fun. Though I did keep thinking that Elinor and Colonel Brandon would be a better match.
It's sobering to reflect, though, that for women of that class there was nothing but marriage. It's their defining thought. I don't know enough history to know if the same was true for the other classes, but it gives me a nasty feeling. I know I'm very lucky to live in this time, and place, where for me marriage never became more than a "maybe someday, if the opportunity arises". It was never a necessity.
Of course, the idea of being married to someone I do not love, or to someone who does not love me, is one of my personal nightmares. But that's rather beside the point.
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Date: 2010-06-20 01:59 pm (UTC)"Combined" is English, but I don't think it's the word you want in this context..."open" maybe? Though they wouldn't have called it that then. Yeah, marrying for wealth and/or name, and then screwing around on the side. The Regency period was all about appearances, at least for the upper classes.