i am flightly like a butterfly

[schmerica]

I have a poll! Do you have a poll? I bet you don't. SO THERE.

In conclusion, I am having a weird note.

[Poll #613559]

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

God I KNOW. I just started rereading Mansfield Park for my english novel class, and I know by December I am going to wish that a) she existed and b) wouldn't be dead right now anyway just so I CAN PUNCH HER RIGHT IN THE FACE.

Seriously, I love Jane Austen, but Mansfield Park suffers from the problem where all the likable characters are bad and all the good characters are insufferable prigs.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, I seem to remember liking Edmund all right? But, gah. Fanny Price just blows. Especially when you compare her to Elizabeth Bennet. I mean, I get that Austen couldn't write the exact same character in every single book, but... WHY NOT?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Seriously! Elizabeth Bennet is worth eight gazillion Fanny Prices. Or even, like, you look at Anne Elliot in Persuasion, and she's a) nice and good and sweet and b) undervalued and unappreciated by her family blah blah blah -- and yet? I LIKE her. No reason to punch her in the face at all!

Edmund is mostly good when he is around Mary Crawford. Whom we should hate because she is bitchy about her relatives and tells dirty jokes.

(...Possibly part of the reason I don't like Mansfield Park is how it forces me to the realization of how Jane Austen would have disapproved of me. Hee.)

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't remember liking Anne Elliot much, but I reread Persuasion this summer and I actually really did! I think she has a spine in a weird way - like, she's stubborn in a quiet way, and she's more adult than Fanny Price. WHO JUST SUCKS.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. SO TRUE.

I wonder if repeating that 300 times would count as my next essay for this class!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...Also, I am totally NOT WHINY.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Look, Pearl, you shouldn't give the option if you aren't ready to hear the hard truth!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

The hard truth is YOU SUCK.

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

....*quivers*

Dude, I need to read that soon. Don't tell me such things! *hides from literature*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heee. Well, uh, some people like it! I mean, even the worst Jane Austen is better than tons and tons of other stuff, you know? This happens to be my least favorite of hers, but there's still interesting stuff in it.