Becoming Jane…
I just finished watching this movie…wow. I tried to read “Pride and Prejudice” a number of years ago, and I never really got into it. Terrible for an English teacher, I know…
But now, knowing this about Jane Austen, knowing how…well…human she was and how the events of her life must have informed so much of what she wrote…now I want to pick up “Pride and Prejudice” again. And isn’t this, indeed, what great literature is? To help us see ourselves, reflected, in other people from widely different times and experiences than our own? To help us see how close we all really are as humans? It’s so exciting to me…and it’s also quite cool to realize that the project I’m having you complete will, hopefully, bring you to some of the same realizations as you examine the authors’ lives and time periods along with their greatest works.
i definately think that this is exactly what great literature is about. i think that “to kill a mockinbird”, is a GREAT example of helping us to “see how close we all really are as humans”.
I dont feel like lewis carrolls books. I think that alice is a very relatable character, but the book im reading “through the looking glass”, does not really come off to me as great literature. I’m very disappointed and i dont think that Lewis Carroll is all that wonderful.
Pride and Prejudice seems like a WONDERFUL movie and a great book. hopefully i will find time to read the book sometime over the summer.
I really love Pride and Prejudice (I’ve read it twice)and the movie portrays the book really well. I agree with you, Ms. Meiklejohn. The way Austen writes and portrays her characters is so cool. She pays very close attention to detail in order to give the reader everything they can have to understand the characters and events that are in the book. This book is a classic, because it’s story is timeless. I’ts about a woman rebelling, basically, against the rules of society. She doesn’t accept the first man who proposes to her, she’s not the “elegant female” who’s “afflicted with modesty”, and when she speaks with people, she gives her opinion openly. It’s a fun read (once you get used to the style of the writing), and like Keira Knightley(who portrays Lizzy)said, “It’s about her(Lizzy’s) pride and his (Mr. Darcy’s) prejudice.