I love Jane Austen's writing, all but one feature. Her resolutions (the end of the story) seem to lack the strong feeling and emotion that built up so much of the storyline. It seems like such an insipid ending to such a rich plot. Is it just a Victorian thing?
2007-01-27 06:25:07 · 5 answers · asked by The Amazing Humdinger 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
And what do you think of the ending of Emma?
2007-01-27 06:53:40 · update #1
No - I too adore Jane Austen's books, but she wasn't very good at the endings; she basically says "after all this happened they lived happily ever after." Other authors of the time had good endings. Her books are good enough, however, that I can overlook the weak endings.
2007-01-27 06:42:37 · answer #1 · answered by Adriana 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With some books you can really just tell when she's got bored and wants to end it. I like the ending to S&S and P&P, but for the others, I'm not too fond. I really also don't like the sentence structure because Austen uses SOOO many run on sentences, that are technically grammatically correct, but difficult to understand once you've reached the end. I counted the words in a sentence of Mansfield Park once, and there are 130-some words in it! That's the thing I most dislike about Austen's writing.
2007-01-27 06:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by Kristie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps Jane just wanted us to use our own imaginations. She leads us to the pivotal scene and then let's us dangle in suspense for a few scenes before giving us her version of the ending.
It's always interesting to read books by other authors who have taken up where Jane ends the story. I have read the " sequels " to "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice" and in all honestly, I preferred my own versions of what might happen to the characters. In the " Emma " version Mr Woodhouse marries Miss Bates and Jane Fairfax dies after giving birth to a son and the distraught Frank Churchill returns in secret to Highbury and hides out at Mr Knightly's house where he is discovered by Emma who must then keep his secret.
You see what I mean. It's a bit of a laugh!
2007-01-27 07:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by lizzie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not just a victorian thing. I hate it, too, but I love her book P&P.
2007-01-27 07:10:11 · answer #4 · answered by Tacy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't answer her! She'll just delete her own question. It's a waste of time.
2007-01-27 06:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋