If you only look at Jane Austen's books, you feel that it is nothing more than writing some bourgeois petty romance. Dances, afternoon tea, even a walk, can write several pages.
When you understand the reason why she never married, you will know her work, there is a kind of true feeling of licking the wound. A person's love for her, the punishment of an era, makes her style fresh and sincere, and hides an invisible wall.
"Becoming Jane Austen" tells the love story of Jane and Tom. Before I read it, I always thought that the reason why such a big writer had never been married in his life must have been let down by men. It turned out that no, a man named Tom was willing to give up everything for her, including his own future and family. ▼
If Jane had been selfish and really accepted Tom's efforts, they might have been like many bland couples, and she wouldn't have become a big writer and Tom wouldn't have become a barrister.
A good writer must have three abilities: keen sensitivity, broad mind and deep emotions. Before meeting Tom, Jane was only sensitive, which is probably what we usually call talent.
The scene of Jane's writing appears four times in the movie, showing Jane's transformation from a naïve girl to crazy for love, from lost love and confusion to "seeking inward". The level of the inner world reflects the level of a writer.
We combined the environment and atmosphere of the film to review these four scenes together.
Naïve girl
Before meeting Tom, Jane's world was simple, and she wrote whatever she saw.
During this period, she did not have much thought, in order to find adjectives, staring up at the sky, searching the intestines and scraping her stomach. ▼
You see, she has two adjectives in her sentence, "hot" and "flattering", but she does not express any thoughts. To put it bluntly, it's pile-up.
At this time, the background around her is some daily clock cup plate. Even, the color of her clothes is the same as the color of the clock frame, revealing that her writing level at this time is only a reproduction of the everyday. ▼
Love
Jane is a confident woman who likes to express herself boldly. Her first kiss with Tom was her initiative. ▼
On the eve of what she thought was about to marry Tom, she picked up her pen again.
At this time, the background is a hot candle fire, she is immersed in wonderful love, and the theme of writing is only one, the beloved. ▼
broken heart
They were still too young to fool their uncle who was a judge with a small trick. This time, Tom was weak. He hadn't yet figured out how he would live without his uncle's support.
Jane returned home, looking at her widowed sister with a blank face.
Both the foreground and the background are cold white, showing Jane's inner pallor and weakness. Soon, she compromised with reality and accepted the rich Wesley's marriage proposal. ▼
Ask inward
Women need to be loved. Tom finally decided to give up his uncle's support, give up his responsibility to the original family, and elope with her at all costs, Jane gained an incomparable sense of value and energy.
She ended up not choosing to elope. She realized that it was bearable for her to suffer with Tom, but if Tom's younger siblings were all because of their love and did not have food, she could not afford it.
She chose to remain unmarried for life to be faithful to her love, using her own pen to support herself and her family.
Her words are no longer confined to one person, but shape an ideal world of love. In her words, everyone is alive. Every love is worth singing. She said her story must be fulfilled for her.
At this time, the environment is a steel window, a dead tree, and the window symbolizes the inner world. It's not the same as the girl who searched for her stomach in the sky at the beginning of the film. She no longer asks for it, but goes into her own heart, looking for the truest feelings and imaginations. ▼
Write at the end
As a writer, Jane Austen had both talent and luck.
Under the keen sensitivity, Tom's love gives her the highest affirmation, which makes her deeply emotional. The restrictions on women in that era clashed irreconcilably with her free will, making her romance novels have a strong color of the times.
Of her six great books (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northangjue Temple, Mansfield Manor, Emma, And Persuasion), I have only seen two, Pride and Prejudice and Emma. But it can be seen that Tom is the prototype of Darcy. In the work, she makes her Tom rich and capable of deciding on her own marriage.
In the film, the two reunite years later. Tom named his daughter Jane, a word that was a testament to the love he had loved all his life.
The once-poverty kept the two apart, but did not destroy true love. That righteousness, that commitment to perfection, has stored the richness and strength of resistance to the years for those who love each other. ▼