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amarguerite:
I am still so salty over the wrongs against Mr Bennet committed by that dreck novel Longbourn. It completely ruins the point if Mr Bennet is a secret libertine!
Mr Bennet is a good man and landowner! He is respected by his family and community! His respectability ensures that of his daughters! Austen makes a point of saying that even though he doesn’t love or respect Mrs Bennet he’s never cheated on her! He’s not actively awful, he’s just super depressed about how his life turned out and consoles himself by hiding in his library and sharpening his wit on anyone who’s annoying him!
His big offense is due to inaction not action— it’s his indifference that causes big problems in his dysfunctional family, and spurs on Lydia’s Big Dumb Choice. I firmly believe that a point Austen was trying to make, especially through her description of Darcy’s land management praxis is that if you have supreme power as a male landowner, you can’t be indifferent. You can’t just maintain what you have— you have to improve it, for all those who depend on you. You have to use your powers for the good of your community.
amarguerite:
I am still so salty over the wrongs against Mr Bennet committed by that dreck novel Longbourn. It completely ruins the point if Mr Bennet is a secret libertine!
Mr Bennet is a good man and landowner! He is respected by his family and community! His respectability ensures that of his daughters! Austen makes a point of saying that even though he doesn’t love or respect Mrs Bennet he’s never cheated on her! He’s not actively awful, he’s just super depressed about how his life turned out and consoles himself by hiding in his library and sharpening his wit on anyone who’s annoying him!
His big offense is due to inaction not action— it’s his indifference that causes big problems in his dysfunctional family, and spurs on Lydia’s Big Dumb Choice. I firmly believe that a point Austen was trying to make, especially through her description of Darcy’s land management praxis is that if you have supreme power as a male landowner, you can’t be indifferent. You can’t just maintain what you have— you have to improve it, for all those who depend on you. You have to use your powers for the good of your community.