What I love about this adaptation and the performances by all the actors, is that even the "villains" like Lady Katherine and Mr. Collins and Caroline Bingley etc are favourites. I'm always quoting them. They're so entertaining.
Some of Lady Catherine's vulgarity happened off-camera, even from the perspective of the book. Mr. Collins has all the details on the cost of the construction, outfitting, and decoration of Rosings -- which means Lady Catherine must have told him all about it. That's probably appalling even for the time.
In Pride & Prejudice, Mr Darcy has an income of around £10,000 a year, whereas Mr Bingley’s income is said to be between £4,000 and £5,000 per annum. Hence they are both very wealthy. Mr Bennet is likewise well above average for he owns an estate and has a yearly income of £2,000. In contrast, many lawyers earned about £400 per annum and most rectors (the highest ranking members of the parish clergy) had annual incomes of approximately £300 or £400. (The Reverend Norris, a character in another Austen novel, Mansfield Park, was a very fortunate member of the clergy for Jane tells us that his income was almost £1,000, a figure that placed him among a handful of the most well paid rectors in the country. Incidentally, the fact that the Mansfield living was so lucrative indicates that Sir Thomas Bertram’s estate lay in a very productive area and undermines the view that his family fortune was almost entirely derived from slave labour in Antigua).
Excellent and matchless an adaptation as the 1995 BBC film version is, I am irked by a slight flaw in the casting. Perhaps I am wrong, (it wouldn't be the first time!), but Jane is supposed to be more beautiful than Elizabeth. Yet, is Susannah Harker, who plays Jane, more beautiful than Jennifer Ehle, who plays Elizabeth? To me, and I recognise that this is in some measure at least subjective, it appears quite the opposite?
That's what I think every time I watch this series!! I'm always confused why Lizzy is so pretty?, it doesn't go with the book. The comparison of them two is much better in the film from 2005 with Keira Knightley. But, as the Restful Rhythms has just said, times were different and so were the beauty canons; if I lived then, i would be the first in the country i suppose. Hope you understand me well though I'm not native English.
Were Miss Bingley less of a catty snob, I could feel sorry for her desperation to marry Mr. Darcy, because on top of him being one of the wealthiest men around, it's mentioned early in the miniseries that she is to keep house for her brother. We don't see her being his housekeeper in the miniseries, but I can't imagine she not hate having to work for her keep. I guess if a woman of the gentry class failed to marry, though, she either continued living with her family or she became a high-level servant for some other family (housekeeper, nanny, nurse, governess, or something like that?).
I always assumed it meant managing, as the woman of the house would. Unmarried sisters would often take this role for bachelor brothers until the brother married and then she would be expected to step aside
@@jessicak7965 That could well be. Either way, Miss Bingley will have to make other plans now that Jane and her brother are married. They won't want her living in their home in any capacity after she's been so nasty to Jane (and Lizzie). All that cattiness has come back to bite her, and I can't quite feel sorry for her.
It’s been an age since my property law class but I don’t think that’s how the Bennet fee tail works. If a female descendant can hold the estate in trust until she produces a male heir that would mean Mr. Collins would not be deemed the heir. So of course we don’t see the legal document laying out the rule for failure of issue, it is clear that their fee fail means that in the case of failure of issue, the estate travels back up the family tree to find the next male heir of the earlier life interest holder (in this case mr. Bennet’s father). Since Mr. Bennet has no male heirs, the estate passes to the second male heir in line of Mr. Bennet’s senior, or Mr. Collins, who was Mr. Bennet senior’s nephew. This is easier to understand with a family tree but the key point is that Mr. Collins does not inherit because he is the current Mr. Bennet’s male cousin, he inherits because he is Mr. Bennet senior’s nephew.
I've always loved Anne Chancellor's Caroline; what a perfect b---- character. Her height works perfectly to highlight the "looking down her nose" characterization
I have, alas, no idea how that makes them stand. Would that enable to live them, _somewhat_ comfortably, Miss-Marple-like as a "gentlewoman in reduced circumstances"; or was that amount more like, "too little to live, too much to starve"?
@@thekingsdaughter4233 I think 250 pounds per year was more on the "too little to live, too much to starve" side, considering that in "Sense and Sensibility" (at least in the movie version) Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters only had 500 pounds per year and could barely scrape by even by keeping a very frugal budget, having a very low rent on the cottage, many free dinners with Mrs. Jennings and Sir John, and only two servants.
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What I love about this adaptation and the performances by all the actors, is that even the "villains" like Lady Katherine and Mr. Collins and Caroline Bingley etc are favourites. I'm always quoting them. They're so entertaining.
Some of Lady Catherine's vulgarity happened off-camera, even from the perspective of the book. Mr. Collins has all the details on the cost of the construction, outfitting, and decoration of Rosings -- which means Lady Catherine must have told him all about it. That's probably appalling even for the time.
It must have been, yes, two people's lack of decorum exposed with one stone.
I enjoyed this adaptation because it follows how the book was written.
In Pride & Prejudice, Mr Darcy has an income of around £10,000 a year, whereas Mr Bingley’s income is said to be between £4,000 and £5,000 per annum. Hence they are both very wealthy. Mr Bennet is likewise well above average for he owns an estate and has a yearly income of £2,000.
In contrast, many lawyers earned about £400 per annum and most rectors (the highest ranking members of the parish clergy) had annual incomes of approximately £300 or £400. (The Reverend Norris, a character in another Austen novel, Mansfield Park, was a very fortunate member of the clergy for Jane tells us that his income was almost £1,000, a figure that placed him among a handful of the most well paid rectors in the country. Incidentally, the fact that the Mansfield living was so lucrative indicates that Sir Thomas Bertram’s estate lay in a very productive area and undermines the view that his family fortune was almost entirely derived from slave labour in Antigua).
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1. The Social Setting
2. Relationships in the Novel
3. Characterisation
4. Use of Irony
5. Resourses
We love Mr. Darcy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the way Bingley defends Jane.
Haha... he never, or he would not have gone to London
Excellent and matchless an adaptation as the 1995 BBC film version is, I am irked by a slight flaw in the casting. Perhaps I am wrong, (it wouldn't be the first time!), but Jane is supposed to be more beautiful than Elizabeth. Yet, is Susannah Harker, who plays Jane, more beautiful than Jennifer Ehle, who plays Elizabeth? To me, and I recognise that this is in some measure at least subjective, it appears quite the opposite?
I agree, I personally think Jennifer Ehle is more attractive, but perhaps back in the day Susannah's features were considered more beautiful.
That's what I think every time I watch this series!! I'm always confused why Lizzy is so pretty?, it doesn't go with the book. The comparison of them two is much better in the film from 2005 with Keira Knightley. But, as the Restful Rhythms has just said, times were different and so were the beauty canons; if I lived then, i would be the first in the country i suppose. Hope you understand me well though I'm not native English.
@@kezzoliver apologies - a delayed thank you for your kind and insightful reply.
@@brocadeandsequins apologies for delay in replying - you are probably quite right.
Were Miss Bingley less of a catty snob, I could feel sorry for her desperation to marry Mr. Darcy, because on top of him being one of the wealthiest men around, it's mentioned early in the miniseries that she is to keep house for her brother. We don't see her being his housekeeper in the miniseries, but I can't imagine she not hate having to work for her keep. I guess if a woman of the gentry class failed to marry, though, she either continued living with her family or she became a high-level servant for some other family (housekeeper, nanny, nurse, governess, or something like that?).
You mean miss Bingley, right?
@@Darcyfied Oooops, yes! I mean Miss Bingley.
I always assumed it meant managing, as the woman of the house would. Unmarried sisters would often take this role for bachelor brothers until the brother married and then she would be expected to step aside
@@jessicak7965 That could well be. Either way, Miss Bingley will have to make other plans now that Jane and her brother are married. They won't want her living in their home in any capacity after she's been so nasty to Jane (and Lizzie). All that cattiness has come back to bite her, and I can't quite feel sorry for her.
@Rowana Forrest For sure!
Wonder if this is Robin Ellis narrating? He did a lot of voice work at one time.
If one of the girls has a grandson before Mr Bennett passes then they inherit over Mr Collins
It’s been an age since my property law class but I don’t think that’s how the Bennet fee tail works. If a female descendant can hold the estate in trust until she produces a male heir that would mean Mr. Collins would not be deemed the heir. So of course we don’t see the legal document laying out the rule for failure of issue, it is clear that their fee fail means that in the case of failure of issue, the estate travels back up the family tree to find the next male heir of the earlier life interest holder (in this case mr. Bennet’s father). Since Mr. Bennet has no male heirs, the estate passes to the second male heir in line of Mr. Bennet’s senior, or Mr. Collins, who was Mr. Bennet senior’s nephew.
This is easier to understand with a family tree but the key point is that Mr. Collins does not inherit because he is the current Mr. Bennet’s male cousin, he inherits because he is Mr. Bennet senior’s nephew.
No. Mr Collins inherits.
I've always loved Anne Chancellor's Caroline; what a perfect b---- character. Her height works perfectly to highlight the "looking down her nose" characterization
Is this an open university module?
Its psychological perspective???
That narrator sounds like the father from North and south
They had 250 pounds a year income from mummy. That's not no income.
I have, alas, no idea how that makes them stand. Would that enable to live them, _somewhat_ comfortably, Miss-Marple-like as a "gentlewoman in reduced circumstances"; or was that amount more like, "too little to live, too much to starve"?
@@thekingsdaughter4233 I think 250 pounds per year was more on the "too little to live, too much to starve" side, considering that in "Sense and Sensibility" (at least in the movie version) Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters only had 500 pounds per year and could barely scrape by even by keeping a very frugal budget, having a very low rent on the cottage, many free dinners with Mrs. Jennings and Sir John, and only two servants.
Hi. £500 per annum was certainly no fortune but it was well beyond the income of the average family at the time.
True, but average income early 1800s, £50 year