'She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, commonplace.
'She is a prose Shakespeare, ' Thomas Macaulay wrote of Austen in 1842. Austen explores the complexities of human relationships as they change over time. Eight years later, Captain Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic Wars with a triumphant naval career behind him, a substantial fortune to his name, and an eagerness to wed. In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called 'almost too good for me, ' has let herself be persuaded not to marry Frederick Wentworth, a fine and attractive man without means. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818. Croft are also one of the rare examples of an older couple with a model marriage in Austen’s work.Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, "Persuasion" was written while Jane Austen was in failing health.
Clay are all seeking a second love after the loss of their first fiancée, wife, and husband respectively. Similarly, the characters of Captain Benwick, Mr. Persuasion is Austen’s only work that engages love in later stages of life Anne Elliot, at twenty-eight, nears the age of spinsterhood for a woman in her era and has “lost her bloom.” Her romance with Captain Wentworth commences in a “second spring,” years after they first fall in love and then fall out.
Whatever the case, the novel does seem to possess a more elegiac and meditative tone than some of Austen’s earlier, spritely works such as EmmaĪ Second Spring. Some critics have drawn parallels between Austen’s own life situation as an unmarried “spinster” and that of her protagonist, Anne, and that there are glimpses of a sorrow about mortality that are attributable to the context of her illness in this last novel. Austen wrote Persuasion while dying from what was possibly Addison’s disease she finished alterations of its final chapters a year before her death.
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