Why Jane Austen Still Slaps
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
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I Think the Adaptations Fail When They Only Look Like Austin
The adaptation refused to kind of throw off the constraints of the novel. It basically felt like it was trading on our affection for these characters while turn, while turning them into completely unrecognizable versions. So i think the adaptations fail when they only look like austin, but they don't care about being austin. Ah, and my final thought on this would be, is, there are so many interesting ways to update austen. For instance, there's only one glancing mention of slavery, in the slave trade in all Austen's novels. Could he have had a conversation with anne about it, or captain bennock, his friend? That's where i think you can
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